News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Mountain Shadow RV Park has filed suit against the City of Sisters because the city has refused to change its rules to accommodate "park model trailers" at the recreational vehicle facility. Sisters' city attorney Steve Bryant said the city considers the suit to be "without merit." However, though the suit was filed in federal court on Tuesday, June 22, Mountain Shadow manager Tom Anderson said on Monday, June 28, that park owner A. Wayne Scott had no intention of suing the ci... Full story
Heather Wester and Glen Lasken have joined the Sisters School Board. Each will serve the last two years of unexpired terms left by members who moved out of the school district. Wester was appointed to replace Karen Lee; Lasken replaces Guy Gleason. Both will serve through June 2001. "Being on the school board was something I always wanted to do," Wester told The Nugget. "All the stuff I did before was sort of preparation for that." Wester, whose son Hayden entered... Full story
Many local residents will soon have the option of high-speed Internet access when Bend Cable completes its installation of a new fiber-optic telecommunications system in the Sisters area. As part of the cable company's renewed franchise agreement with the City of Sisters, Bend Cable recently finished connecting a fiber-optic strand to its main switch off Camp Polk Road. The fiber line will replace the current microwave transmission system. According to Bend Cable General Manager Paul Morton, residents with cable television ac... Full story
The buildings and fields at Sisters schools are showing the signs of heavy use - and the use continues all the way through summer. The school facilities are available to the public, but community use makes scheduling maintenance difficult, according to schools superintendent Steve Swisher. Carpets need to be cleaned, gym floors refinished and fields seeded, all tough to do when the buildings are in constant use. School fields take particularly hard punishment over the summer... Full story
Violet "Vi" Griffiths and her husband Jim have been delivering mail to residents of Sisters' outlying areas since the early 1980s. Now they're winding up their routes and looking forward to some well-earned free time. The Griffiths are independent contract mail carriers. They rise in the early hours of the morning, six days a week, to get mail mail in people's boxes from the rural sbdivisions of Indian Ford, Tollgate and Crossroads to the hinterlands of Dry Canyon. But... Full story
* * * To the Editor: The Crossroads annual meeting at the fire hall (June 26) was the best example of a controlled vote that I have ever seen. Thirty minutes after the meeting my resignation to the board as a board member was typed and signed. What bothered me the most about the meeting was not the hypocritical attitude of some of the board members and not the slanted options presentation that was given (with no chance for rebuttal), but the board's refusal to continue discussing issues that were being requested from the floo... Full story
Karen Sheldahl took over as Camp Sherman postmaster last week after her husband, Jon Sheldahl's retirement. Jon had served the Camp Sherman community for 11 years and now his wife carries on the Sheldahl tradition of service. Karen had been postmaster at Powell Butte previous to taking the Camp Sherman position. She has been with the postal service for 20 years, having started in Denver on the graveyard shift working the letter-sorting machine. Karen was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and lived her early life in a small... Full story
The Sisters City Council recently approved a change in the speed limit for North Locust Street (also known as Camp Polk Road) from Highway 20/126. The speed limit will remain the posted 25 mph from the highway to Green Ridge Street. A 40 mph "transition zone" will be added from Green Ridge to about 0.2 miles north, just outside the Sisters City Limits. Frequent travelers of Locust Street/Camp Polk within the city limits know that the area has had a 25 mph limit for a long time. Apparently the City of Sisters posted the lower... Full story
