News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The Deschutes County Sheriff's Department arrested one young adult and cited two juveniles for alleged possession and distribution of psilocybin mushrooms at Sisters Middle/High School on Friday, September 4. All three are students at Sisters High School. According to the sheriff's department, Charles Michael Simmons, 18, of Bend, was arrested for alleged possession and delivery of a controlled substance. Simmons was lodged in Deschutes County Jail in lieu of $30,000 bail. Sunnie Ehukai Woessner, 17, was cited for alleged... Full story
Sisters police officers and support personnel have petitioned the Oregon Employment Relations Board to form a union. According to lawyer Rhonda Fenrich of Eugene, the Sisters Police Association is attempting to organize "for collective bargaining and negotiating purposes. My job is as their attorney." Fenrich referred questions about why the police were attempting to organize to local officers. Acting president of the association, detective Don Pray, said he was only authorized to say "we are in negotiations with the bargaini... Full story
To the Editor: How very odd to see in the September City of Sisters Quarterly Newsletter, from the desk of Barbara Warren, City Administrator, an item saying that "the City's attorney (Geoff Gokey) feels there could be a legal challenge regarding the words voters and electors/electorate" in the Annexation Initiative Measure, #9-40, on the ballot November 5. Odd, because the initiative was submitted to Mr. Gokey in advance and he approved the wording. First, he sent it back for a minor correction (but not of the words "voters... Full story
The sky is golden-blue but a disturbing brown scrim of smoke hangs like a veil over the earth. Most of us have warm, comfortable homes, but how many more have no shelter at all this year? Our little community is lively and productive, but we can hear sabres being polished in the distance. The temperature is rising. Despite the somber overtones, joining our neighbors from sea to shining sea in the task of preserving a positive sense of humanity and culture in this troubled world, enjoying a celebration mood, the rapturous smel... Full story
A large deer was killed by a cougar last week on Walt and Ruth Paul's place along Camp Polk Road. Ruth Paul was taking a wheelbarrow-full of cuttings to her compost pile and discovered cougar tracks where there should have been nothing but wheelbarrow tracks. And right alongside the cougar tracks Ruth recognized the sign of where the lion had dragged a deer off. Walt Paul has spent enough time out in the woods to know a deer-drag when he sees it, and set off to follow. About 300 yards from his place he discovered where the... Full story
The study of year-round education for kindergarten through eighth grade in Sisters has been assigned to a task force of educators and parents by Superintendent Steve Swisher. Swisher said the Elementary Site Council, comprised mainly of teachers and parents, and the Middle School Transition Team were directed to review several options for year-round education and prepare a draft implementation plan for review by December 15. Swisher took the action following instructions from the Sisters School Board last month to prepare... Full story
Mark Goddard, the former president and current International Service Director of the Rotary Club of Sisters, returned to Sisters last week from his seventh trip to the Talamaca Valley in the tropical forests of mountainous southeastern Costa Rica. Goddard has been working to establish the Rotary Medical Clinic in the remote village of Shiroles. The clinic is dedicated to providing better and more accessible health care to the people of southeastern Costa Rica. The program has introduced medical care, dental care and... Full story
It's official. Sisters School District enrollment for the beginning of the 1996-97 school year stands at 1,133 students - an increase of 33 students over last year - all in the middle and high school grades. Elementary school grades kindergarten through sixth had a total enrollment of 545, the same as last year. The middle/high school increased from 555 to 588. Superintendent Steve Swisher said the enrollment as of last Friday is the number filed with the state. The enrollment is then factored into the formula used... Full story
The Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District and the Oregon Department of Forestry responded to a reported brush fire along the south side of Highway 20 between Fryrear and Plainview roads on Sunday, October 6, at 9:30 a.m. Upon arrival, they found two small fires burning about 90 yards apart along the side of the road, according to Chuck Cable, Cloverdale RFPD Fire Chief. "The larger was about 60 feet in diameter and involved a big juniper. The smaller one was 30 feet by 15 feet," said Cable. Cable said the fires were far e... Full story
