News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Travis James Gothberg, 15, of Sisters, landed in juvenile detention after he allegedly stole a pickup truck and rammed it through the fire gates in Crossroads. According to sheriff's office reports, Barclay Contractors employees reported a 1989 Ford pickup stolen from their yard on July 6. On July 10, the truck reappeared at the yard with its front end damaged. A sheriff's deputy investigated and found shoe prints and distinctive bicycle tracks by the truck. After hearing about a youth who had been seen loitering in the area... Full story
Desertronics is up and running again in Sisters, producing circuit boards and providing job training for Sisters students. The company, which operates under the umbrella of the school district, expects to produce 1,000 circuit boards for Weitech pest control devices. According to supervisor Dan Saraceno, the company is ramping up to produce 6,000 units by fall. Saraceno, a high school counselor, also oversees the district's FLEX alternative school, some of whose students will... Full story
People who pick up fawns in the woods may be sentencing them to death. Tracy Leonhardy of Sisters takes care of orphaned fawns for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. So far this season, she has received nine animals. Seven have died. Four of the fawns were found by people walking in the woods. These well-meaning folks mistakenly thought the fawns were lost or had been abandoned. They took the babies home to raise them themselves. They did more harm than good. By the time they came to Leonhardy, the fawns were on the... Full story
Russell Eugene Dunn of Sisters chose prison over substance abuse treatment and will spend the next 44 months behind bars. Dunn was sentenced last March to two consecutive 120-day terms in county jail in connection with a Christmas Day 1998 incident in which he assaulted a woman friend and then resisted the sheriff's deputy who came to arrest him. He also received probation with the condition that he participate in substance abuse treatment; he later refused. According to assistant district attorney Mary Anderson, that was a... Full story
Lawrence Jerome Doherty, 83, died when his 1929 Ford was struck by a 1991 Jeep Cherokee driven by Jason Gerard Schell of Springfield. According to the Oregon State Police, the crash occurred at 11:20 a.m. on July 12 approximately one mile east of Suttle Lake. Schell was traveling east toward Sisters when his vehicle crossed into the oncoming lane. The jeep struck the front of the Model "A," killing Mr. Doherty upon impact. Betty Joy Doherty, 77, was taken to St. Charles Medical Center On Tuesday, July 13, she was listed in... Full story
* * * To the Editor: The June 26 Crossroads Annual Meeting was a sham. At the meeting the board announced that proxies must be filed with the secretary five days prior to the election. By requiring advance filing, a requirement absent from the bylaws, reelection of board members was guaranteed. They controlled plenty of proxies filed five day prior to election. Following the election, the board announced that Judge Tiktin had invalidated all but the original Crossroads CCRs. This announcement was wrong. Judge Tiktin did not... Full story
We could see the fish through the grass and bushes. He was right in front of us - so close his spots and fins and even the pupils of his eyes were plainly visible. Every so often he would move up and slide out of sight behind a grass clump, but in a couple minutes he would come back to his station opposite us. His food was drifting on the slow backwaters of the eddy. We could pick out the individual caddis and small yellow mayflies that were trapped there. We watched as they came into the fish's range. He moved in a... Full story
Some 250 neighbors and friends gathered at Sisters High School on Monday, July 12, to celebrate the life of Sally Leavitt. She died after a year-long battle with cancer on Wednesday, July 7. She was 45. Leavitt was remembered for her skill with horses, her contributions to the Sisters business community as co-owner of Leavitt's Western Wear, and, above all, for her courage and passion for life. Friends recalled the dedication that pushed her to excel as an athlete and... Full story
By Jim Cornelius Like the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, quilters came by the thousands to participate in Sisters' annual celebration of their craft. The 24th Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show was staged under blue and sunny skies that set off the 800 or so quilts hanging on the shops of town in an array of color that nearly overwhelmed the senses. It is impossible to know for sure how many quilters and their obliging spouses thronged the streets of Sisters on Saturday, July 10, but estimates ranged upward of 20,000. Man... Full story
