News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The shooting death of a 20-year-old Salem man near Sisters September 7 has been ruled a suicide after an autopsy by the state medical examiner. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's reports, two friends brought Joshua Sam-Hardy Otto to Sisters Fire Hall in the back of a pickup truck at about 2:24 a.m. Saturday September 7. Police and fire personnel found Otto dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Michael Johnston reported that Otto and his... Full story
Teachers are changing the way "'Rithmetic" is taught in Sisters schools. The changes come as educators statewide call for strengthening Oregon students' math skills. Last month Sisters teachers won approval from the school board to change the district's math curriculum. New books were authorized that are part of a math learning system that provides better continuity from one grade level to the next. The system chosen for grades three through eight is called the "Saxon Adoption." In the simplest terms, the system couples... Full story
To the Editor: As I was contemplating the upcoming vote on the county fair proposal, I couldn't help lamenting the recent failed Sisters School District proposals this past spring. Even as this is written, students from the middle/high school are attending math classes in the Baptist Church because increasing enrollment has overburdened existing facilities. I personally favor a more adequate county fair facility, but not at the expense of a future "yes" vote for our kids! Schools can't operate on a "something for nothing"... Full story
I tend to rhapsody. I know it. Please excuse it. Forebear. It is Spring and the sky is grey and the wind has come up again and the dogs have stood maliciously in my tulip bed. But I have see the ravens are returned to their summer skyway where, in their observance of morning, they churn up in invisible warm tunnels without choreography or any heeding to mankind. I have caressed the greening grass and dug up the resplendent weeds in my garden. My daughter has picked me daffodils. I am happy. I have noticed, to my great joy,... Full story
Teen-agers in Sisters will soon sit in judgement of their peers in a new Teen Court. The court, which holds its first session Tuesday, September 24, sentences teens who have been cited by police into Sisters' juvenile diversion program. The court was established by the City of Sisters, the Juvenile Empowerment Team, Deschutes County Juvenile Department and the Commission on Children and Families. "It's essentially a sentencing hearing; it doesn't decide guilt or innocence,"... Full story
After hearing public comment, the Sisters Ranger District will implement a salvage logging project that aims to reduce the risk of fire in the Santiam Corridor near Suttle and Blue Lakes. The auction of 19 million board feet of timber from the Santiam treatment project is slated for September 17. The Santiam Corridor Vegetation Management Project involves a commercial timber harvest of 1,830 acres as well as 2,400 acres of noncommercial treatments such as underburning, firewood and post sales, planting, and riparian... Full story
Students were warned in a school assembly last week that even a small community like Sisters may harbor threats to personal safety. According the Sisters Police log, on Wednesday, September 4, the occupant of a small, blue pick-up stopped at the corner of Highway 126 and Highway 20 and was talking to two 18-year-old girls. An officer on duty recognized the 29-year-old man as a sex offender registered with the Oregon State Police. When the officer drove up, the pickup took off. Administrators at Sisters Middle/High School... Full story
The High Mountains Dixieland Jazz Festival gets more popular each year. Festival organizers believe the sixth annual weekend of toe-tapping tunes -- set for September 13, 14 and 15 -- may be the biggest yet. "Pre-sales are running about 25 percent above last year," said festival chairman Ray Buselli. "(The festival) is growing in reputation." The event has become international this year; a 50-person tour group from England is coming to enjoy the beauty of Sisters and the wide variety of swing and "trad" jazz bands. According... Full story
A 35-foot cellular phone antenna tower and equipment shelter will soon spike the toe of McKinney Butte in the Wild Horse Ridge subdivision east of Sisters. At a public hearing Tuesday, September 3, County Hearings Officer Karen Green conditionally accepted CellularOne's application for use of a 10-foot-by-20-foot lease area at 68893 Bay Place to construct the tower. For the tower to go up, Raymond and Doris Hart, the owners of 68893 Bay Place, must remedy a county code violation involving an unauthorized dwelling in a garage... Full story
