News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Rahm, Trego, Elliott for council Sisters has four strong candidates for city council on the November 2 ballot. Councilors John Rahm, Judy Trego and Dave Elliott have demonstrated a willingness and ability to work together as a team. They have built up experience and background that will serve the city well over the next four years. Brad Boyd, too, is a strong candidate. While he is particularly interested in transportation, he is not the single-issue candidate he is sometimes depicted to be. We hope to see Boyd continue his... Full story
Vote No on Measure 37 Measure 37 is not about fairness or justice. It's about dismantling land use laws that have protected Oregon from the kind of unregulated development that destroyed communities in California and other states. By making land use rules too risky and expensive for local governments to implement, the measure effectively eliminates them. The cost to taxpayers could be millions of dollars. Keeping Wal-Mart out of neighborhoods might be impossible. We have long supported land use reforms that would make... Full story
Ray's Food Place will expand to include more shopping space, more check stands and several new services in about a year. No official plans have yet been submitted to the City of Sisters. photo by Susan Springer If all goes as planned, Sisters residents will be able to grocery shop in a larger, modernized Ray's Food Place next September. C & K Market, Inc., which owns Ray's, is planning to build a new store behind the current location on West Highway 20 in the Three Wind Shopping Center. The existing store would then be demoli... Full story
Patricia Diane Gillespie, 52, of Sisters died late Tuesday evening after the vehicle she was operating left Highway 22 near milepost 72 and went down an embankment before coming to rest in the Santiam River. According to Oregon State Police reports, Gillespie was driving a 1999 Subaru Legacy station wagon eastbound on Highway 22 when it left the south side of the roadway at approximately 11:06 p.m. on October 12. The vehicle went down an embankment about 60 feet and rolled over several logs, OSP reported. It came to rest on... Full story
Sisters demands more power. photo by Jim Cornelius Engineers and planners at Central Electric Cooperative (CEC) are scrambling to keep up with the demand for electrical power in the fast-growing Sisters area. According to CEC account records, Sisters is just behind Redmond as the cooperative's third largest service area. Redmond has 5,920 total active services (including Eagle Crest), while the Sisters area carries 5,237 active services. Metropolitan Bend is the largest, with 12,048 active services. "We're experiencing... Full story
If two years constitute a trend, Sisters schools are entering a period of growth. The schools have experienced significant enrollment increases in 2003 and 2004 after seeing virtually none in the preceding six years. Enrollment early this month (October is commonly used as a benchmark) reached 1,281, an increase of 86, or 7.2 percent, from last October. By the same token, the 1,195 students counted in 2003 were 72, or 6.4 percent, more than in 2002. Yet between 1996 and 2002, the numbers moved up or down a little each year... Full story
The historic old Sisters school site will likely serve as an administration building for the school district. It will sit next to a new Sisters Library and City Hall. photo by Jim Cornelius Sisters' dream of creating a cluster of public buildings at the town's eastern portal is receiving encouragement. The plan would see a city hall, a library and the school district's administration building standing together on a three-acre site formerly occupied by the Sisters Middle School. The middle school moved into the former high... Full story
The Sisters Rotary Club, SOAR and Sisters Branch Library will host the annual community Halloween Parade Friday, October 29. Ghosts and goblins up to seven years old will assemble at 3 p.m. at the Village Green Park, between Fir and Elm streets. Trick-or-treaters and their parents will parade through downtown Sisters. Costumes are required. All participants are asked to bring one canned food item to support the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank. All participants must pre-register and sign a release form. Forms are available at the... Full story
A small group gathered to raise concerns about McDonald's. photo by Jim Mitchell A small but emotionally charged group of Sisters citizens met last week at Sisters Elementary School to express their opposition to the proposed plans for McDonald's in Sisters. There were concerns about appearance: "We don't want the 'golden arches' and/or billboard type signs announcing the location." There were concerns about Sisters losing its quaintness: "It will change the whole complexion of Sisters." There were concerns about change: "I a... Full story
Detectives from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office have recovered a sculpture of a bronze bald eagle that was stolen from the Ghiglieri Gallery in Sisters last July. Detectives arrested Jeffrey Holland, 46, of Sisters, in connection with the theft. Holland was the former manager of Storage Station of Sisters on N. Larch Street in the Sisters Industrial Park. According to the owners, he had been terminated from that position several weeks previously for reasons unrelated to the alleged crime. According to sheriff's office... Full story
The Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District is opening full-day outdoor burning. Residential outdoor burning inside the City of Sisters and in the fire district requires a burn permit at the site of burning. These permits are available at the fire station in Sisters, located at 301 South Elm Street. Residential burn piles shall not exceed six feet in diameter and six feet in height. The piles shall not be built within 50 feet of any structure and there must be an attending person at all times with water and a... Full story
Sully as his friends knew him. photo provided People from every walk of life in Sisters remembered Donald "Sully" Sullivan last week at a gathering that packed the bar at Bronco Billy's Ranch Grill & Saloon. Sully, who died on Sunday, October 10, was remembered as he asked to be remembered: as a friend to all who knew him. Betty Fadeley was particularly close to Sully. In a conversation with The Nugget, she recalled that when Sully would call her house, her husband Chuck would say, "It's your brother on the phone." Fadeley... Full story
Sue Fisher and Hal Salwasser at a forest health discussion. photo by Conrad Weiler Mike and Sue Fisher, part-time residents of Black Butte Ranch (BBR), have donated money to start a graduate fellowship program at Oregon State Univaersity to assess forest health research in and around residential areas like the Ranch. Hal Salwasser, Dean of Forestry at Oregon State University, discussed the program at a meeting at the Ranch last week. Since the initial money for starting the program came from BBR, "the program will start at... Full story
Mayor Dave Elliott has appointed three citizens to fill vacancies on the Sisters Planning Commission. Dominic DeBari has been an independent tile contractor for over 30 years. He is interested in being involved in guiding the pattern and direction of growth in Sisters. "As a downtown resident it seems important to be as involved in development planning as possible," he said. David Gentry offers 24 years of experience in state government, including 21 years as a software engineering manager. "I believe my skill set can make a... Full story
Jacquie Zanck of Sisters escaped serious harm in a near-head-on collision. photo by Penny Miller A Sisters woman is recovering from injuries suffered in a near-head-on collision on Highway 20 last Tuesday, October 19. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, Jacquie Zanck, 43, of Sisters, was driving westbound on Highway 20 near the Lazy Z Ranch on Tuesday morning when an oncoming Honda Accord veered into her lane, missing another vehicle and striking Zanck's 1999 Ford Expedition. The expedition rolled, coming... Full story
The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer's name, address and phone number. Letters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor. The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is noon Monday. To the Editor: The ballots have... Full story
- City Council Meeting 7 p.m., 2nd and 4th Thursday each month, Sisters City Hall. 549-6022. - School Board Meeting 7 p.m., 2nd Monday each month, middle school lecture/drama room. 549-8521. - Black Butte School District Board of Directors meets 2nd Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., Black Butte School. 595-6203. - Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD meets for drill every Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 549-0771. - Sisters Kiwanis Club meets every Thursday, 7:30 a.m., Sisters Fire Hall. 549-1223. - Sisters Habitat for... Full story
Vote Yes on local option Perhaps the most important item on the ballot for Sisters area residents is a local one: the renewal of the local option tax that supports Sisters schools. Sisters voters should vote "yes" on Measure 9-30 to continue to provide some $800,000 per year to the schools for the next four years. The money is vital if Sisters is to provide even a decent basic education to our children. Without it, class sizes will spiral out of control and the arts, sports and academic enrichment programs that have made the... Full story
