News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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A one-way couplet won't be part of Sisters' plans for the immediate future. A joint workshop of the Sisters City Council and the city's planning commission October 29 concluded that language proposed by the Oregon Department of Transportation that would have allowed for a couplet should be removed from the city's comprehensive plan. The possibility of a couplet was reintroduced last month after ODOT was asked to comment on the plan. The agency submitted seven pages of suggeste... Full story
A request to construct a $1.1 million interchange on the Sisters-Redmond Highway (Highway 126) just west of its present intersection with Cline Falls Highway is being considered by a Deschutes County hearings officer. The request was made by Eagle Crest Partners, Ltd. and the Oregon Department of Transportation. Eagle Crest is required to participate in the construction of the interchange to handle increased traffic if it wants to expand beyond its current 25 percent -- 200-unit -- limit on a 746-acre expansion of the... Full story
To the Editor: Earlier this month Mark Rapp and others from the Sisters Ranger District conducted a public tour of the proposed Black Butte Fuels Project. That project proposes reduction of potential fuels (dense brush and stands of small trees) around Black Butte Ranch and also in the old-growth area just north of the ranch across Highway 20. Mark and the rest of the Sisters District staff are to be commended for conducting a very informative tour as well as tackling a very difficult but very important issue. The project is... Full story
Wrapped in their shiny jackets, streaked with gold, blushing red, wine-pungent, tart or dead sweet, so crisp and sturdy with their tantalizing horse race names piled high in their bins in the markets these afternoons, the new bounty of lovely, fresh picked apples is ready. Surrounded by the glamour fruits of late summer, the common apple is demure. It is the humble representative of virtue and health, faithful all winter, sensibly suited for long storage, resilient in the lunchbox, wildly versatile in the kitchen, easily... Full story
The Redmond/Sisters United Way campaign reports a slow start this year, just over a third of the way to their goal of raising $85,000 for local service organizations. The largest beneficiary of the United Way campaign is the Red Cross, at $13,000. Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls and Boys and Girl Scouts together are slated to receive $22,500. Only $31,335 has been pledged to date to provide funding for a total of 16 agencies (see sidebar). Approximately 885 individuals were served in the SistersBlack Butte Ranch areas the past... Full story
The City of Sisters Public Works Department is planning to flush fire hydrants on Wednesday, November 6, beginning at 10 p.m. However, if the weather is freezing, the flush will be postponed. Residents may notice some cloudiness in their water on Thursday morning, but this will have no effect on the quality of the water. The following week, public works will do another fall yard debris pick up, weather permitting. Residents with yard clippings and pruning debris will be asked to pile the debris in the right-of-way for pick... Full story
At a special meeting on Thursday, November 7, the Sisters City Council will try again to hammer together a consensus on whether to build a new city hall. "I just want the council to tell me how to proceed," said Sisters City Administrator Barbara Warren. Several options remain before the council, Warren said. The city could remodel the old bowling alley building and sell the existing city hall on Fir Street. Although the city's engineering firm estimated that remodeling the bowling alley would cost about $400,000, Warren... Full story
The body of a hunter missing for a week in the woods near the base of Three Fingered Jack was recovered on Friday, November 1. Terry W. Carver, 40, apparently froze to death after wandering directionless in a fairly small area about a mile from where his pickup had been parked just north of Round Lake. Although the discovery answered some questions about Carver's final hours, it has raised others. Carver was reported missing on Saturday, October 26 by hunting partner Royce D. Nelson. Nelson, 30, told authorities that he and... Full story
