News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Opponents of the Pine Meadow Ranch development at the western edge of Sisters are trying to take their fight to the Oregon Supreme Court. The Alliance for Responsible Land use in Deschutes County, led by anti-growth activists Howard Paine and Bill Boyer, are asking the supreme court to review an Oregon Court of Appeals decision which cleared the way to zone approximately 50 acres of Pine Meadow Ranch for standard and high-density residential use. Pine Meadow Ranch lies... Full story
Music lovers of all ages will tap their toes and cut the rug when Sisters welcomes 11 bands for the High Mountains Dixieland Jazz Festival this weekend. Some of the very youngest music fans will have a chance to hear Yve Evans and Chicago Six on Friday morning at Sisters Elementary School. Other pre-festival appearances by Chicago Six include a two-hour stint Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, and Thursday night at a warm-up party at the Main Street venue (behind Ski Inn). The band also... Full story
Bill Anthony has been selected as District Ranger of the Sisters Ranger District on the Deschutes National Forest. Anthony replaces Karen Shimamoto who transferred to the Supervisor's Office in Bend earlier this year to head the Recreation, Lands, Minerals and Engineering programs. Anthony, 45, has worked for the Forest Service since 1979. He comes to Sisters from Boulder, Colorado where he has served as District Ranger since November, 1992. "Bill brings a broad range of experience and perspectives to his new position," said... Full story
Third graders at Sisters Elementary School last year scored very well in the 1997 Oregon Statewide Assessment Program. In mathematics, as well as reading and literature, they scored well above state average in most areas, and near or at the top of a comparison group of schools of similar social and economic characteristics. School superintendent Steve Swisher cautioned, however, that while he would prefer high scores to low scores, the data is not as conclusive as one might think. "We can't say, just based on this data, if... Full story
The "Y" intersection of highways 20 and 242 were a danger zone last weekend. The glare from the setting sun was blamed for a collision between a pickup truck and a Jeep on Friday, September 5, and another between a motorcycle and a pickup truck on Sunday, September 7. Sisters resident Rick Lyle Boulden suffered a broken arm Sunday, September 7, when his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck as he tried to turn from Cascade Avenue onto westbound Highway 242. His... Full story
A "real world" math program, piloted last year at Sisters High School, received good enough marks to be moved up a grade. Students can now advance in the non-traditional math program to "Applied Math Two." Applied math is gives students job-related math skills, and focus on arithmetic operations, problem-solving, estimation of answers, measurement skills, algebra and geometry. "Applied math offers a hands-on, practical approach, and is often project-based," said Jim Harrison, director of the program at Sisters High School.... Full story
Two substantial donations to the community's elementary school room-raising project have supercharged the fund-raising drive. Hap Taylor & Sons donated one hundred tons of asphalt, and the Redmond-Sisters United Way gave $4,000 in cash. The retail value of Hap Taylor & Sons' donation is about $3,000. The company also sold an additional 300 tons of asphalt to the project at their cost. "We are part of Sisters and want to show that we are good neighbors," Hap Taylor said. "We enjoy Sisters, and Sisters has been good to us.... Full story
* * * To the Editor: There is so much good happening at Sisters Elementary School and I want to publicly say thank you to Principal Tim Comfort. Thank you Tim for the time and commitment you have invested in bettering the lives of our children as well as our community. You challenge me with your high standards. You challenge me with your commitment to lives. You challenge me with your outward expression of love to our children. My kids want to be sent to "The Principal's Office." That's where they're given a few Skittles for... Full story
On Indian Summer The lakes are so quiet. The sun sits glimmering on the beaded surface like a flock of stray and lazy stars. The beaches are enormous, full of stumps and old logs and the smooth sand that usually lies under deep water and fishermen. The high meadows are brown with brittle grasses; the creeks are silent and rocky in their crooked beds. Glaciers residing in mountain shade are diminished and dirty. Rabbit bushes along the roadside have puffed up and exploded standing soft and wooly now, dulled and benign. We are... Full story
I had a hard time in puzzling out the tiny stones. I had mistaken them for caddis. I did not recognize their importance until I stopped fishing and sat on the bank and watched for a while. It was a classic mixed and masking hatch. Fish were rising nicely. There were two types of mayflies hatching. They were clearly the most abundant insects on the water. One was a size No. 18 gray/olive, probably a Baetis of some sort. The other was slightly larger No. 16 yellow/olive. Even though there were a few caddis in the air, it seemed... Full story
