News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The High Mountains Dixieland Jazz Festival is looking back on a rousing musical weekend, and already looking forward to next year - with a new name. The festival announced its new moniker - High Mountains Jazz in Sisters - in this year's program. According to festival organizers, the new name better reflects the variety of bands and styles featured at the festival, including swing and Big Band sounds as well as Dixieland. Festival-goers sampled that variety at four venues... Full story
Ominous black clouds gave warning that Sisters was in for a drenching on Wednesday, September 10. Lights flickered and the freshening wind from the south carried the distant muttering of thunder. Finally, at about 4 p.m., the storm struck. Crashing thunder frightened pedestrians. Jagged chains of lightning stabbed out of the brooding sky, leaving the pungent scent of ozone. The clouds burst with a pelting, drenching rain that soaked the unwary as they leapt across sidewalks... Full story
In the year 2003, 108 cabin owners along the Metolius River may pay sharply higher fees for their special use permit land leases from the Forest Service. According to Jeff Sims of the Sisters Ranger District, the process of reappraising the value of the leased land will begin in 1999, and fee increases will be effective in 2003. "The fee for each lease is 5 percent of the appraised value of the lot," said Sims. "There are rumors about how high appraised values could go, but appraised value is based on the value of similar... Full story
Sisters police responded to a burglar alarm at the Sno Cap Drive-in in the early hours of Monday morning, September 15. According to police reports, officers found signs of forced entry to an office building next to the restaurant, including locks that appeared to have been pried open. Sno Cap owner Olan Ford reported that about $570 in cash from several cash drawers was stolen. The incident is under investigation.... Full story
Sisters students unable to cope with the academic or social pressures of high school have an alternative to dropping out. The district's "Flex School" is designed for students 16 years old and over. Flex School students are given individualized curriculum and instruction, enabling them to earn a high school diploma or high school equivalency degree. Its saved some students from falling completely out of the system "Over the last year there have probably been at least 10 - 12 students who went to the Flex School and continued... Full story
The Sisters Ranger District hopes to log 17 acres near the Pole Creek Trailhead about 10 miles southwest of Sisters. The agency plans to log only dead or dying trees, but at least one local environmental group is concerned. Last June 18, a wildfire swept through the 17 acre area. The Forest Service believes it can log 150,000 board feet of fire-damaged timber without harming the environment. After logging, the agency will plant seedlings in an attempt to re-forest the area. Paul Dewey, of the Sisters Forest Planning Committee... Full story
* * * To The Editor This is a comment on an article in the September 3 Nugget which states that Paul Dewey, representing The Sisters Forest Planning Committee, and the Deschutes Chapter of Trout Unlimited, is filing an appeal which, if successful, could prevent the Forest Service from allowing boating on the lower Metolius River, from Lower Bridge to Lake Billy Chinook. Rafting does not threaten the "esthetic, scenic, historic, archaelogic and scientific features of the river" as he maintains. The "natural qualities" of the r... Full story
On the storm's reflection relocate in serving joy Sometimes it is lovely to not be adding to one's life log of adventures. On a dark, moonless night when the wind suddenly spikes up and blows great washy clouds of blue snow down the roof, lit by a stray lamp burning somewhere - blue definitely - a lucky, safe, enclosed feeling settles on the observer who is pleasantly not struggling over the mountain pass in a marginal Volkswagen with holes in the floor and bald tires. Who is also not arriving somewhere, claw-fingered, steame... Full story
Mayor Steve Wilson believes Sisters City Councilor Gordon Petrie is biased against the developers of several controversial projects in Sisters. Petrie vigorously denied that charge and said "all this is doing is making a fight, and I think The Nugget is a party to it." Wilson told The Nugget that he believes Petrie has shown bias against developers that has inappropriately shaped his decisions regarding a zone change on Barclay Ranch and colored his judgment toward a proposed... Full story
