News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Les Schell was selected as Camp Sherman Community Association (CSCA) Volunteer of the Year at last Saturday’s annual association meeting. “His list of service to our community is very large,” said CSCA President Bruce Shuall. This list includes work with the Sisters-Camp Sherman volunteer fire department, work at Camp Sherman’s transfer station, as a member of the Hasty Team search and rescue group, work on refurbishing the picnic shelter at Pioneer Ford campground, service as... Full story
Sisters citizens can voice their opinion on what direction the community should take into the future through the Vision and Growth Strategy Survey, available online and at Sisters Library and at City Hall. The survey is part of the “Greater Sisters Community Vision and Growth Strategy” created by the Community Action Team of Sisters (CATS) and various other city agencies to plot a strategy for coping with the area’s rapid growth. The public survey consists of questions ranging from what local issues are most important to ci... Full story
About 22 percent of the world’s forests lie in Russia. the man in charge of managing those forests was in Sisters on Wednesday, June 28, consulting with his American peers on management techniques, organization and technology. The visit was part of Russian Federal Forest Agency Chief Valery Roshchupkin’s tour of the United States, which also involved a visit to U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth in Washington, D.C. Bosworth had previously visited Roshchupkin in Mos... Full story
High Desert Hair is expanding the shop in Town Square to accommodate new spa-quality services and more retail space. The expansion will nearly double the size of the establishment. According to owner Annette Ehrenstrom, High Desert Hair will use the new space to offer Intense Light Therapy and Light and Heat Energy for skin care and laser hair reduction for both men and women. Eherenstrom also intends to carry a wide selection of retail beauty supplies. “Nobody else has it,” she said. “People ask for it all the time.... Full story
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its final report on the July 1, 2005, plane crash that killed Jan and Bill Reed and injured their three children, Ashley, Ryan and Brittany. The report indicates that while the fuel sight gauges on the wings indicated that there was a total of 100 gallons of fuel available, there was in fact 49 usable gallons available. The sight gauges had been worked on during the replacement of fuel cells in March 2005. The gauges i... Full story
Florida has hurricanes... Oregon has lennies. Both are generated by very powerful winds. Thankfully, — most of the time — winds that generate lennies stay at higher altitudes and cause few problems to humanity, except for airliners. “Lennies” are known to the world of weatherfolk as “altocumulus standing lenticularis” or just “lenticulars” and sometimes appear as an enormous pile of cloud tortillas standing on the tops of the Three Sisters, Mt. Jefferson and Mt. Hood and ot... Full story
