News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Three Sisters-Camp Sherman station firefighters left their extraction training (see related story, this page) Saturday morning, August 26, to respond to a real-time emergency: the forest fire raging in the Ochoco Mountains to the east. Sisters station Captain Gary Lovegren, responding to a call from forest officials, immediately dispatched David Wheeler, staff firefighter, student Smokey Bittler, and volunteer Mason McCoy to help fight the blaze at Ochoco National Forest. Lundgren said that Governor Kitzhaber had, following t... Full story
Logging crews have clear-cut the 40 acre site of Sisters' sewage treatment plant, the brush has been grubbed away and big Caterpillar scrapers are scratching out a 24-acre wastewater storage pond. Work crews have been working 12-hour shifts to get the 12-foot-deep pond dug before cold weather sets in. Once the pond is dug and the levies are built up, a one-foot-deep layer of sand will be laid in the pond and the whole works lined with heavy duty plastic. According to Sisters'... Full story
Fire restrictions are in effect throughout Central Oregon as Labor Day weekend and hunting season approach. Extremely dry fuel conditions have made campfire and other precautions a necessity, according to fire officials. It only takes one small spark from a "cold" campfire to start a wildland fire and change a fun experience into a nightmare. Campfires on public lands and private timberlands throughout the area are either banned or restricted to designated campgrounds. If campers want to camp outside developed recreation... Full story
A pair of underground electrical cable failures last week caused the pump motor on the city's well to burn out. The city's secondary well, located at Sisters High School, picked up the slack and kept the reservoir filled to appropriate levels, but the pump motor had to be rebuilt. "Other than Tuesday morning, (August 22) when two water trucks filled up at the same time and we lost pressure, we've been good," said Sisters' public works director, Gary Frazee. According to Central Electric Cooperative spokesman Jim Crowell, the... Full story
There was no mistaking the sound even from 100 feet away -- metal was being forcibly torn apart. But the nerve-jarring sound that filled the Sisters Industrial Park on Saturday, August 26, did not signify an accident: Captain Gary Lovegren of the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District (RFPD) was supervising the teaching of extraction techniques -- the safe and rapid removal of passengers trapped inside vehicles -- to firefighters, volunteers, and students from local fire departments. During the day-long, hands-on... Full story
Back in the 1960s, folk groups like the Kingston Trio inspired thousands of young people to pick up guitars and learn to strum along to such favorites as "Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley." Sisters Folk Festival Executive Director and co-founder Dick Sandvik was one of those youths, and he's had a passion for folk music ever since. "It was the kind of music that made you think, I can do that," he said Sandvik hopes Sisters High School students will be similarly affected by the Americana Project, a new educational effort... Full story
Schools should focus on levy The Sisters School District desperately needs the money from a four-year local option levy (about $500,000 in each of the first two years, half that in the next two) to make up for cuts in staff and programs, to reduce class sizes and to pay for new textbooks and for long-deferred and sorely needed building maintenance. If predictions of a statewide $780 million funding gap come true in the next biennium, local option money may be all that keeps Sisters' schools afloat. The school board should... Full story
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