News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Several local residents fear that adding new indus- trial land will seriously snarl traffic in Sisters, so they decided to formally oppose rezon-ing property along Camp Polk Road. The owners of Barclay Meadows are seeking inclusion of approximately 35 acres into the Sisters Urban Growth Boundary and a rezoning of the land to light industrial use. The Sisters School District is seeking the same changes to 30 acres the district owns at the north end of Pine Street. Both property... Full story
Two young women recently chased some hunters who allegedly got an early jump on bow-hunting season. In the early morning of August 28, the 19- and 18-year-old women were home late from their jobs as a waitress and hostess at a Bend restaurant. One heard voices and looked outside her house near George Cyrus Road east of Sisters to observe hunters bagging a deer by spotlight at 4 a.m. Spotlighting deer is illegal, and bow season did not open until 5:30 a.m. "I went downstairs to get my dad, but he was still pretty much asleep,... Full story
Firefighters quickly subdued a small, lightning-caused blaze near the summit of Black Butte last week, alleviating potential danger to the region's most important fire lookout. On Tuesday morning, August 24, Forest Service employee Larry Lohman smelled smoke on his way to work. Lohman hikes two miles to get to his "office," the lookout tower atop Black Butte. According to Sisters Ranger District assistant fire management officer Mark Rapp, Lohman smelled smoke that morning, but he could not see any sign of fire from the... Full story
The Community Action Team Sisters (CATS) has been awarded 501c-3 status with the Internal Revenue Service, according to Executive Director Ted Viramonte. The federal designation as a non-profit is necessary to receive grants and loans from some charitable foundations, Viramonte said. Viramonte said that CATS currently has an application for a grant requesting operating funds from a local bank. "This designation takes away something they might question in the application process," said Viramonte. He mentioned both the Meyer... Full story
Byline The City of Sisters will soon get an appraisal on the land it hopes to use for a sewage treatment facility. The city council agreed Thursday, August 26, to hire Bancroft Appraisals of Bend to appraisal a parcel of forest land that lies at the southern edge of Sisters. The appraisal will cost $15,750, according to city administrator Barbara Warren. An appraisal is required if the city is to purchase the property from the Forest Service, or if a deal is negotiated to trade the land for services. The city had held off... Full story
* * * To the Editor: This letter is to inform the people who drive Edgington Road that I (and a number of my neighbors) are becoming somewhat angry at the stupid, inconsiderate, foolish, egotistical, dangerous individuals who travel that road. Edgington Road is a very dangerous road, no doubt about it. There are some people now driving that road way too fast! Twice in the past week-and-a-half I personally have been nearly run off the road by some idiot zooming toward me driving like they were on dry pavement. By the grace of... Full story
Sisters has to solve its growing traffic problems before approving new development. Two residential developments are in the works that will add to the already tangled traffic at the corner of Locust Street and Cascade Avenue. Now applications are before a Deschutes County Hearings Officer to add two parcels to the city and rezone them for light industrial use (see story, page 1). Adding industrial parks before the City of Sisters knows how it plans to deal with the traffic the developments will generate would be... Full story
To highlight the role that volunteers play in United Way's fund-raising and community building efforts, the Sisters community United Way campaign will kick off on September 14, with a volunteer work project at SOAR. In conjunction with Deschutes United Way's fourth annual Good Neighbor Day, a local team of volunteers will do landscaping work and spruce up the Sisters Organization for Activities Recreation facility at 155 N. Locust St. Volunteers will work from 8 a.m. until noon. Good Neighbor Day marks the official kick off... Full story
The buses arrived on schedule Monday morning, August 30, to pick up Sisters children for their fall return to school. Sisters Elementary students spent most of the first day learning school boundaries and discussing how to get along and create a good school. Students at Sisters Middle School were treated to a first-day assembly where teachers dressed up and entertained them with music and dances -highlighted by a full-costume rendition of the Village People's "YMCA." Freshmen... Full story
