News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Sorted by date Results 1 - 9 of 9
The final phase of an engineering study that will prepare Sisters to install a sewer system has been launched. The Sisters City Council voted Thursday, August 22, to put out a Request for Proposal for Phase II of the city's Comprehensive Waste Management Plan. Phase I was conducted by HGE, Inc. of Coos Bay. According to City Administrator Barbara Warren, the second phase of the study will take the city all the way through the Department of Environmental Quality and Environment... Full story
Smoke choked the air in and around Sisters last weekend as a 590-acre lightning-caused blaze flared up in the wilderness near Park Meadow 13 miles south of town. Three firefighting crews and a helicopter were at work Monday morning laying hose line and building a lane around the fire. They were preparing for the arrival of 500 troops from a Fort Carson, Colorado military team which deployed periodically throughout Monday, August 26, from Redding, California, where they had been battling forest fires. The Park Meadow blaze was... Full story
To the Editor: I am writing on behalf of my family and many other residents of Sisters. We have been hiking and camping this area for years and have never encountered anyone as rude and discourteous as the employees of Northwest Land Management. Recently while camping at Suttle Lake, we had an encounter with an overzealous employee who was not only rude but went so far as to kick ashes in my husband's face from a barely lit fire. This was no bonfire, my children were only preparing to roast hot dogs. We are no stranger to... Full story
Every once in awhile I feel wicked. Not only that, but I must do something wicked accordingly so that a subtle, internal realignment might be accomplished. Perhaps it is the high winds. They make the cats race hurly burly across the yard, wildly thrashing their tails, spinning, dashing up tree trunks, leaping down, ears pointed backwards, eyes wide and delirious, mindless. zany. all reason and savoir faire gone, caught in an exuberant impulse that is like the one impelling the wind itself. I cook every day. My bread labor is... Full story
The Central Oregon Air Show in Redmond provided 12,000 spectators with the usual excitement of aerobatics and aircraft displays -- and also a great deal of confusion. No one knew what was going to happen next thanks to the Skeleton Fire in Bend. Frequent sorties by fire-fighting aircraft made it necessary for all air show performers to make quick changes in their routines. Even the USAF Thunderbirds couldn't escape interruption. What saved the day was the extraordinary diversity of aircraft, vehicles, and other displays on... Full story
A Bend man was hurt Sunday, August 25, when he fell while climbing down the east side of the South Sister. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, Jeffrey Mortimore, 42,was at the 7,900-foot level on the 10,000-foot peak when he put his weight on a loose rock, lost his balance and fell into another, larger, loose rock. That rock, described as "refrigerator size," fell on Mortimore, pinning him under it and against several other large rocks. Mortimore's... Full story
Sisters students continue to score higher than state average in the Oregon Statewide Assessment tests. The test scores were released last week by the Oregon Department of Education. They are the result of the sixth battery of tests given since testing began in 1961 to measure how well the students are doing in math and reading. Scores for sisters students remained consistent with those of previous years. The third grade scores for math, which had dropped in 1995, were improved (199 to 202), but not quite as high as the 1993 a... Full story
Portland General Electric has launched efforts to acquire a new license for its 408,000 kilowatt, three-dam Pelton Round Butte hydroelectric project located on the Deschutes River about seven miles northwest of Madras. The current project license expires Dec. 31, 2001. The company will hold a public meeting on Thursday, September 12, at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 430 SW Fairgrounds Rd., Madras in the Maccie Conroy building, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. PGE will also offer a site visit of the project on... Full story
A small single engine plane with two occupants crashed on take-off from Sisters Eagle Air airport on August 22 at about 12:30 in the afternoon. Rick McReynolds, 31, of Lebanon was the student pilot flying with instructor Donald Dodd, 30, of Harrisburg. The 1979 Piper Tomahawk PA-38-112 was owned by Jack Healy, operator of the airport in Lebanon, Oregon. Both occupants were flown to St. Charles Medical Center by Air Life from the scene of the crash. On Monday, August 26, Dodd was still in St. Charles in fair condition with a... Full story
