News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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A small group of equestrians joined a national day of protest against trail park fees by staging a demonstration on Saturday, August 14, at the Sisters Ranger District administrative site. The group numbered fewer than 10 protesters and their single poster was not visible from Sisters' main thoroughfare, Cascade Avenue. But the handful of riders from the Central Oregon chapter of Oregon Equestrian Trails (OET) voiced their organization's opposition to the controversial Recreation Fee Demonstration Program (Fee Demo) implement... Full story
A new middle school is the centerpiece of a long-range facility plan for the Sisters School District. The plan also includes a future elementary school, ball fields, tennis courts, a swim center, a visual and performing arts center, an extensive environmental study area and facilities for the Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation (SOAR). While enrollment in Sisters has remained roughly steady and even dipped in some elementary grades, the middle school is pinched... Full story
The new planned unit development at The Pines has triggered a road-building project for Mountain Shadows RV Park. The park must build a road on 60 feet of dedicated right-of-way from Highway 20 to the south edge of the park property, according to city planner Neil Thompson. The road will be part of a connection from The Pines to Highway 20. Mountain Shadows was to build its part of the road as a condition of approval for the park's site plan. The city council agreed to let... Full story
An Ellensburg, Washington, man and his son walked out of the woods near Sisters on Sunday, August 15, after a 40-member search team was mobilized to find them. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, 42-year-old Dr. Robert Harald Perkins - a Scout Master and college professor - and his 15-year-old son had planned to hike from the Pole Creek trailhead south of Sisters, climb Middle Sister, then trek cross-country to Devil's Lake near Century Drive, where another family member was to pick them up. The hikers did... Full story
Volunteers from AmeriCorps, under the supervision of Barbara Turner, teamed up with local children this summer to create a "community garden" in Sisters. This past spring, AmeriCorps members, Darcy Ling-Scott, Erika Horowitz and Cheryl Zellers, introduced the children from Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation to the joys of gardening. The children, participants in SOAR's after-school clubhouse program and the summer clubhouse program, planted seeds and tended to the seedlings during their initial stages of... Full story
* * * To the Editor: Why don't the local businessmen use money from the profits they fleece from tourists, and buy the land for the sewers? They seem to have plenty of resources to advertise out of the local area to entice tourists to come to Sisters. Then they refuse to let these same tourists use any bathrooms. I have contacted the Oregon State Health Department as this is a real health issue. The businesses that benefit form the tourist trade they encourage should be the ones to pay for the sewer system, or stop trying to... Full story
The shiny young eyes at the Little Cloverdale Preschool will be focused on the smiling face of a new teacher when classes start Wednesday, September 8. Ann Kauzlarich will replace Chris Rerat who has retired to help her husband with their new business. Kauzlarich will travel from Bend on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to teach three- and four-year-olds at the cooperative preschool in the old two-room schoolhouse at the intersection of Highway 126 and George Cyrus Road. "We interviewed a number of prospects for the teaching p... Full story
Fair-goers flocked to the Fourth Annual Country Fair at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on Saturday, August 14, and enjoyed a day of musical entertainment, food and shopping. Shoppers went home with everything from hand-crafted birdhouses to preserves and relishes to fresh farm produce. Face painting, pony rides, sheep cart rides and the miniature donkeys were a big hit with the children. The art show and sale featured a record number of entries from throughout the Northwest with sales far exceeding prior years,... Full story
