News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Firefighters have contained a blaze that swept over 1,100 acres of the Jefferson Wilderness last week and filled the air northwest of Sisters with a haze of smoke. It may be a long time before the flames are completely out. Up to 704 firefighters from the Sisters Ranger District and other Central Oregon agencies battled to contain the blaze which fire officials believe was touched off by a carlessly discarded cigarette Monday, July 8. Crews threw fire lines around the fire's perimeter to halt the fire's spread.. Helicopters w... Full story
Sisters police officers are working with the Sisters City Council to hammer out a policy on overtime accumulation. The issue of pay for "comp time" blew up into a dispute between City Administrator Barbara Warren and Sisters Police Chief David Haynes last month that lead to the temporary resignation of the police chief. Warren asked for a council workshop on the matter after the dispute. She said that the heart of the matter is an unusual buildup of compensatory time in the police department and a vague city policy dealing... Full story
Editorial... Bob Chandler, owner and editor of The Bulletin since 1953, died last Friday, July 12. A huge presence in central Oregon over the decades and deeply involved in the evolution of Oregon, Chandler leaves a legacy for this region and his profession. He was the quintessential editor, a breed often characterized by impatience and sharp tongue. It was said of Chandler he did not suffer fools gladly. Indeed. He could be acerbic with those he felt did not recognize or fulfill their responsibilities. There was little... Full story
Time. We cannot control it or take it apart. Nor can we start it up, stop it, harness it, see it or get around it. We are stuck, riding on it or in it as it takes us where it will in its quiet, devastating way, toward the circle of our years. I am intrigued with the sciences which attempt to simulate time, especially the going-backward people whose experiments focus on the first instant that time poked its way into this place, loaded with pure, prodigious energies which have brought us all, inexorably, through the long, unfol... Full story
A fault in an underground power line near the Threewind Shopping Center knocked out electricity to a large portion of Sisters on Saturday, June 13. According to Jim Crowell, member services director with Central Electric Cooperative, crews arrived on scene at about 7:30 pm. The failed cable, possibly a spur line leading to the BP gas station at Threewind, caused a fire in a switch on the McKenzie Highway, Crowell said. This extended the power outage to an estimated 250 accounts, both large commercial and residential. Robin... Full story
A U. S. Forest Service grant, if approved, will give Sisters what it needs to qualify for a Department of Environmental Quality permit to build a city sewage treatment facility. The Sisters City Council last week authorized City Administrator Barbara Warren to proceed with an application for a $110,000 grant that would be used to hire an engineering firm to finish a waste water treatment facility study for the city. Warren said she has discussed the matter with Forest Service representatives and she is confident the city... Full story
Quilts are supposed to provide warmth, of both the literal and figurative kind. Sisters provided plenty of warmth of its own for the annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, but the crowds defied soaring temperatures and flocked to town to take in the splendor of the traditional summer event. According to quilt show coordinator Jean Wells Keenan, many of the quilting enthusiasts turned out early to beat the heat. "The peak time ended up being much earlier because it was so hot,"... Full story
Two city staff members put some heat on the Sisters City Council last Thursday night, letting them know they were fed up with delays in getting a new city hall. Sweltering in the summer evening heat at the July 11 council meeting, City Recorder Bernadette Sorensen said, "If we are not going to be moving soon, can we do something so we can work?" Sorensen said the staff has no place to store records, that the building, even early in the morning, is uncomfortably hot in summer. Police secretary Pat Davis addressed the council... Full story
It's been a deadly year and a half on the Santiam Pass west of Sisters. According to Oregon State Police in Bend and the Oregon Department of Transportation, 12 people have lost their lives on a 10-mile stretch of Highway 20 since January, 1995. This nearly doubled the number of fatalities of the previous three years and ranks the road over the Santiam Pass as one of the most dangerous in Oregon, according to records from ODOT. The most dangerous section extends from the Santiam Junction, where highways from Eugene, Sweet... Full story
