News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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A 26 year old Sisters man was killed in a three-vehicle crash on Highway 20 near Suttle Lake, approximately 12 miles west of Sisters, on September 3. At approximately 1:42 p.m., Joshua Hignell was headed westbound on Highway 20. For unknown reasons, Hignell failed to negotiate the curve. The vehicle went first into the gravel on the right side of the highway, then, with brakes locked, headed into the oncoming lanes. Hignell's BMW crossed the center line and struck a 1999 Ford Explorer driven by Timothy Monterossi, 33, of... Full story
Sisters-area residents raised $10,000 for wetlands restoration projects at a Ducks Unlimited fund-raiser at Cascade Meadow Ranch on August 28. According to John Daday, one of the event organizers, 95 people attended the banquet. "It was well attended and everyone enjoyed themselves," he said. Part of the enjoyment included an auction and a raffle featuring outdoors and hunting-related services and products. Local businesses sponsored the event and donated items for auction and raffle. Ducks Unlimited is an organization of... Full story
Sewer lines could go in as early as February and some users could be hooked up by summer, according to Dick Nored of HGE, Inc., the engineering firm that is designing Sisters' sewer system. According to Nored and public works director Gary Frazee, a main trunk line down Adams Street and another line along Jefferson Avenue could be laid early this spring. According to city officials, The Pines development and Pine Meadow Ranch Development Company plan to pay systems... Full story
The sudden flow of late-summer visitors to Three Creek Lake has been hard on locally sensitive plant and wildlife habitat. Sisters Ranger District field ranger Kate Goossens reported that impatient recreationists drove their vehicles across Three Creek Lake's earthen dam on August 21 to access the Driftwood campground, which was blocked by a 70-foot-long snowbank. She explained that the "sub-alpine" habitat in the area has a very short growing season and that such extreme impacts on the ground can cause irreparable damage to... Full story
* * * To the Editor: I have no idea whether the self-employed small business person from Camp Sherman, who resents being told he's "fleecing" tourists, is really ripping them off, because as a local resident I've probably never been in his store (John Tice, Letters to the Editor, The Nugget, September 1). I can tell him, however, that one reason his business seems like part of a ghost town in the winter is that he probably hasn't made much effort to attract the approximately 9,000 permanent residents of the Sisters area to... Full story
An 18-year-old Sisters man sustained severe injuries to his left hand in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 20 in the early hours of Friday morning, September 3. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's reports, the young man was eastbound on Highway 20 at milepost 4 east of town at about 1 a.m. when he crossed the oncoming traffic lane and hit a tree. The man's car rolled several times before coming to a halt. The driver was transpor- ted to St. Charles Medical Center and consented to a blood and urine draw, according to... Full story
The Ford Family Foundation, based in Roseburg, has awarded a $20,000 challenge grant to Sisters Habitat for Humanity for the purpose of building a home with a selected Habitat family. The grant represents roughly half the cost of materials necessary to build a Habitat home in Sisters. Sisters Habitat must raise a matching $20,000 in cash and in-kind contributions from individuals, churches, businesses and service groups throughout the Sisters area by February 1, 2000. "Receiving such a sizable grant is truly a blessing,"... Full story
Sisters students beat the state average on last year's assessment tests in reading, writing and mathematics. The tests, administered in the third, fifth, eighth and 10th grades, measure students' progress toward meeting state benchmark standards for a Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM). Scores were released by the state Department of Education last week. Sisters students were strongest in writing and math problem-solving, with 83 percent of 10th graders meeting or exceeding... Full story
