News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Campers started a 30-acre fire within a mile of the Pole Creek Trailhead on Wednesday, June 18. About 130 firefighters battled the blaze for two days, and had the fire under control by midday Thursday. Lookouts stationed at the Black Butte tower reported the fire at 12:34 p.m. on Wednesday. According to Mike Carnahan of the Sisters Ranger District, preliminary investigations indicate that the fire escaped beyond a campf ire ring, where it was fanned by the breeze. The campfire ring was within about a mile from the wilderness... Full story
Two motorcyclists were injured at the junction of Highways 20 and 126 at the east end of Sisters on June 18 when a driver pulled in front of them and their 1997 Harley Davidson slammed into the side of a 1993 Geo Prizm. The wreck occurred at about 10 a.m. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department, the driver of the Geo, Stanley Earl Houck, 41, of Eugene, was cited for a dangerous left turn. Houck allegedly was eastbound and was turning onto Highway 126 from Highway 20, "without giving sufficient clearance to the... Full story
Developer Ted Eady has won approval from the Sisters Urban Area Planning Commission for a zone change on 13.6 acres of the Barclay Ranch. The commission decided June 18 to recommend that the Sisters City Council give final approval. The zone change will clear the way for Eady to build a 25-room inn on the property. The change will put 6.29 acres under general commercial zoning and 7.31 acres in the light industrial zone. This was the second time the commission okayed the... Full story
People have been camping out at Suttle Lake for a long time -- a really long time. Sisters Ranger District Archeologist Don Zettel led a crew of diggers in an archeological exploration of the area last week and found evidence that people had camped there at least 1,300 years ago and possibly as far back as the Ice Age. The dig was organized as work begins on remodeling the Suttle Lake Resort. The Forest Service routinely studies such work areas to make sure no knowledge of... Full story
The expanding population of feral cats is a problem in Deschutes County and across the country. The cats have become a serious threat to indigenous birds, mammals and reptiles. They deplete small fauna and as the condition of the cats deteriorates, diseases strike not only the feral cats but also pet cats and indigenous felines, such as cougar and bobcats. Nature is harsh on these renegades. One of the first sicknesses to manifest itself is cat distemper. Even though this will result in the death of 80 percent of feral cat... Full story
Sisters planners have scuttled plans to put up to 23 "park model" RVs at Mountain Shadows RV park. The Sisters Urban Area Planning Commission, in their June 18 meeting, denied a variance to the city zoning ordinance that would have exempted the semi-permanent park models -- which are essentially small mobile home trailers -- from being required to move every 90 days. Bill Berman, a sales representative for Salem RV, testified that park models can only be sited in RV parks and... Full story
A Sisters man suffered a broken leg and other injuries after he plowed his motorcycle through a fence along Highway 242 early Saturday, June 21. John Bradley Wymore, 24, was arrested for driving under the influence of intoxicants and felony driving while suspended after police found him lying in a field at Patterson Ranch. Sisters Police and Deschutes County deputies responded at 2 a.m. to a report of loud motorcycles running near Sisters High School. According to Sisters Police, an officer located one motorcycle on a dirt... Full story
* * * To the Editor: Congratulations to the Pine Tree Square, Mountain Man Trading Post and Habitat for Humanity on their recent grand openings and additions. In my opinion, these new buildings have set the standard for future western theme designs. Next time you're around town, take a closer look at these stores, particularly the Habitat store. You won't see any LP pressboard siding on these additions to our town. They have taken the extra design effort and expense to create retail storefronts that beautifully fit our... Full story
On Outdoor Cooking Without walls, floors, windows, doors--ninety degree angles of any sort--without incandescence, electronics and plumbing, life changes. We ease up. We get dirty and don't care. The sky is the ceiling. The earth is the floor. We join the elements and the soul is gratified. We can watch the morning mists arise from the high lakes, white birds ascend from an island into a cloud, water snakes glide across the mirroring surface smoothly avoiding quick handed boys. The children run in circles for the sweet joy... Full story
Soft Hackle Swing - it sounds like some sort of country western dance. Actually it is one of the oldest methods of fly fishing known. It originated with the birth of fly fishing on the chalk streams of southern England and was popular well before either the current dry fly or nymph fishing tactics were ever invented. Today the technique has fallen into relative obscurity. The only writers who talk about it very much are the Califonia angler Sylvester Nemes, guru of the Soft Hackle technique and his disciple David Hughes.... Full story
