News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Despite a veto override last week that preserved some $250,000 for this school year in Sisters, the district is right back looking at a $500,000 hole in the budget. That's because state revenue forecasts released this week offer a gloomy picture -- a further shortfall of between $300 and $350 million. If cuts are made to all state programs across the board, k-12 education would take a $147 million hit. That translates to about $300,000 in Sisters. "The uncertainty has grown,"... Full story
The owners of the Comfort Inn and Mountain Shadow RV Park will soon have to complete the next phase of the road that will link the Sisters Industrial Park with the future Sisters High School. The new McKinney Butte Road will run south from Highway 20 next to the motel to The Pines development. Improvement of that road was part of the original conditional use permit for the motel and RV park. The requirement was not enforced while the area surrounding the motel was undeveloped.... Full story
Sisters will live up to its Western theme this weekend as the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce hosts its Western & Native American Festival at Creekside City Park. The event runs Saturday and Sunday, August 31 and September 1, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival features native dancing, mountain man traders, fur trappers, a blacksmith, Hawk the Storyteller and pioneer women. Visitors may enjoy a variety of arts and craft wares and demonstrations including hands- on beading, candle dipping, flint knapping and more. There will be... Full story
The Outlaws Cross Country team took to the roads over the weekend as 26 team members participated in the Portland-to-Coast Relay, held August 23-24. The race is held in conjunction with the Hood-to-Coast Relay and the Portland-to-Coast Walk. Like last year, Sisters entered two 12-member co-ed teams. This year, the Outlaws moved up in the overall rankings. The Outlaws' first team "Afraid of the Dark" finished second among co-ed teams and an impressive ninth overall, covering the 127 mile course in 15 hours and 56 minutes.... Full story
The Sisters Jazz Festival will open a fourth all-event venue at Sisters Elementary School to make sure patrons have adequate seating at the rejuvenated festival. The festival board of directors made the decision as advance badge sales for the September 13-15 festival continue to roll in. "This has been a tricky decision," said festival director Jim Smith. "We had purposely reduced the size of the Jazz Festival in order to hold down expenses. Fortunately, with the cooperation of the Sisters School District, we can open this ve... Full story
Holden Sellentin examines fire hydrant in downtown Camp Sherman. At last week's Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Board meeting, Roger White questioned whether the single fire hydrant in downtown Camp Sherman worked or not. White owns the Camp Sherman Store. The hydrant is located across from the store at the small parking area adjacent to the viewing platform. The hydrant has a below ground connection leading to a pipe that draws water from the Metolius River. Chief Don Rowe remembers the hydrant working about 25 years ago... Full story
Bruce Shaull, Beth VanCampen, Peter Schay and Candia Bernstein of Camp Sherman pluck knapweed. It's August and those pretty purple flowers of the noxious Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) or its close relative Diffuse Knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) are in bloom. A group from Camp Sherman, led by Beth Van Campen, was collecting, bagging and destroying knapweed plants recently along Highway 20, near Sisters in front of the Threewind shopping center. "Beth is the driving force for our group," says Bruce Shaull of Camp... Full story
Ray and Marge celebrate 60 years Margaret and Raymond Carley celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary earlier this month. About 11 months after the United States entered World War II Ray left his job as a sheet metal worker with Lockheed in Los Angeles and moved to Eugene, Oregon. A romance with Marge (Margaret) led to marriage on August 13, 1942, at the Presbyterian parsonage in Eugene. At the same time, Ray joined the Marines and spent 1943-45 island hopping from the Philippines to Guadalcanal and many other islands while... Full story
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- A deputy arrested a woman in Sisters for violating a restraining order in Redmond. - A woman confronted hunters who wanted to shoot a deer in her neighbor's back yard. The hunters left. - Someone reported hunters chasing deer in the Buck Run subdivision. A deputy contacted the men, who said they were tracking a deer that had been injured by someone else. - A deputy assisted an elderly driver who was lost. - Three young Sisters men were involved in a physical altercation. - A woman reported that her power went out and then t... Full story
An unusual restoration team of 800 goats came to Sisters last week to help control a massive noxious weed infestation in the Eyerly Wildfire area. A dense infestation of spotted knapweed threatens to take over thousands of acres of burned land in the beautiful and remote Fly Creek drainage on the eastern fringe of the Sisters Ranger District. The weed-eating goats have a taste for knapweed and quickly consume flowers, destroying developing weed seeds. The Fly Creek weed problem was identified as a potential ecosystem... Full story
Be careful, Mr. Westlund Representative Ben Westlund has accepted the job of campaign manager for governor candidate Kevin Mannix. To improve the chances of his right wing candidate (the most conservative of three Republicans who ran for the job, Mannix was not even the first choice of most Republicans), Westlund said Mannix would reduce government regulation by 50 percent. And just which 50 percent would that be, Mr. Westlund? It is dishonest to make such a statement without providing details. Regulations that protect our... Full story
