News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The good hunting weather of the past two weeks didn't hold up for opening day of deer season September 28. Warm, dry weather gave an advantage to the deer. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Steven George reported a 6 percent hunter success rate, considerably less than the 10-13 percent rate of a typical year. "It's not the worst we've had," George said, "but it's on the low end." In hot dry weather, deer tend to lie low in the heat of the day. The weekend's... Full story
"Look! Is that a bear?!" a woman at Indian Ford exclaimed one morning recently while looking out her kitchen window. Her husband ran to the window. "You're right, it is a bear," he shouted, "and look, it has a cub with it!" Other bear-sightings around Sisters, and indeed, right in the industrial park and at the elementary school, have left no doubt that Sisters has been attracting more than the average tourist over the last several weeks. Black bears are large animals that come in cinnamon to jet-black fur, and some males wil... Full story
To the Editor: Budget woes of the City of Sisters were publicized in a Nugget article and editorial August 14. In the same issue was a whitewash article by Jean Cooper, council president, who incidentally is up for re-election November 5. Cooper's article deals primarily with some of the mechanics of bookkeeping -- what is allowed and not allowed -- and completely ignores the fact that over the last four years the city has been spending more than it has been taking in. You can have a perfect set of books and still be losing... Full story
My kitchen has been full. In order to dump cold coffee or to refill glasses with cold water, it has been necessary to sidle to the sink with tiny, mincing excusing steps, arms raised high. Fresh fruit in extravagant quantities spilled out of a long basket on the expanded table. The refrigerator has been crammed with home-made dainties, ready to bake. Extra children have been introduced around and absorbed, put to work along with the regulars tidying, teaching us their tricks, cutting out breadsticks, cookies, candies,... Full story
Camp Sherman Hasty Team members were called into action in the Crooked River Gorge on Saturday, September 28, to recover the body of a 16-year-old boy who apparently jumped 400 feet from the train trestle to his death on Friday. Mark Foster, of Camp Sherman, coordinated the mission at the Ogden Wayside. Teams from Jefferson County Search and Rescue out of Madras and Deschutes County Search and Rescue assisted. Camp Sherman Hasty Team members Dan Tucker and Todd Williver, joined by Terry Halladay of Madras, rappelled into the... Full story
Sisters played host to some folk music legends and to an array of topnotch regional musicians and storytellers at the Sisters Folk Festival Friday and Saturday, September 27-28. Large and enthusiastic crowds signaled success for the festival, now in its second year. The Friday night performance of the festival was predominately a family affair. The audience ranged widely in age, with babies sleeping in, baby carriers or in their parents arms, little children quietly wandering through the aisles, teens chatting together and... Full story
The final phase of a study that will prepare Sisters to install a sewer system will be conducted by HGE, Inc., an engineering firm from Coos Bay. The Sisters City Council decided Thursday, September 26, not to put the $110,000 contract for Phase II of the city's Comprehensive Waste Management Plan out for a Request for Proposal. HGE, Inc. conducted Phase I of the study and the decision left Phase II in their hands as well. That decision reversed an August 22 decision to put... Full story
CellularOne is likely to appeal a Deschutes County decision denying a cellular phone antenna in a subdivision on Wild Horse Ridge above Sisters. County Hearings Officer Karen Green agreed that the 35-foot single-pole antenna proposed for the property of Raymond and Doris Hart would be lower in height than surrounding trees, essentially invisible to neighbors and have minimal "operational and visual impacts." But Green was concerned that "not every cellular telephone facility may be as unobtrusive as the applicant's, and... Full story
Sisters area resident Joshua Norman Rodgers was sentenced September 24 to 18 months in prison for firing a rifle into a home on Deer Ridge Road on January 26. The 20-year-old plead no contest to a charge of first degree attempted assault. He received the maximum sentence. According to prosecutor Steve Gunnels, Rodgers and his friend Scott Sheeran committed the drive-by shooting because they thought the resident had turned Sheeran in for poaching on his property. Gunnels said... Full story
