News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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About 176 trees mistakenly marked for logging by the Forest Service have been cut and will go to the mill despite protests by the Sisters Forest Planning Committee, a local environmental group. The trees, including 121 with diameters of 21 inches or greater and regarded as "old growth," were sold to Crown Pacific which is currently harvesting the Walla Bear Timber Sale about 10 miles south of Sisters despite furious opposition from Paul Dewey, a Bend lawyer and environmentalist active with the SFPC. The Walla Bear sale was... Full story
Walt Paul eased up close to a border collie-sized brown, spotted cat lying next to an old log along Squaw Creek near his home on Monday, October 30. "Looks like it's got a bad eye," Paul said quietly, as he got closer. The diminutive cougar made no move to rush off, or fight him; it just laid where it was trembling, as if in shock. "Looks like it's a pretty young cub, about 5 to 6 weeks - if that," Paul said. This was a surprise. Cougars are almost always out of their baby spots this time of year, yet this cub still had very... Full story
The Land Conservation and Development Department has remanded to the Jefferson County Commission "periodic review work task number 4," which concerns zoning and land- use regulations in the Camp Sherman area. "The department concludes that the county's inventory, analysis, exception statement and new zoning for the Camp Sherman area does not fully comply with... task number 4 which required the county to address Goal 14 and the (Oregon) Supreme Court decision" in what is commonly referred to as the "Curry County case,"... Full story
Sisters emergency officials are hailing Deschutes County's takeover of the supervision of 911 services as a step in the right direction for the troubled agency. Starting January 1, the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners will assume direct management of the 911 service district; the user board, composed of the emergency agencies served by the 911 district, will act as an advisory board to the commissioners. The City of Bend has threatened legal action to challenge the coun... Full story
A new piece of equipment at the recently rebuilt Tollgate substation cut power to portions of the Sisters area starting at about 10:15 Sunday morning. According to Don Lang, Chief Engineer with Central Electric Cooperative, a differential relay that is designed to detect problems within the substation itself "misoperated" and caused the failure. Crews came from Plainview and Prineville to discover there was no fault in the substation, "so they were able to reset (the relay) and restore power," Lang said. A majority of the... Full story
Starting November 5, about half the telephone customers in Oregon started operating under a new area code. As of Sunday, much of the state, including Central Oregon changed over to the 541 code. Earlier this year, the Public Utility Commission approved a split method of implementation for the new code. The state was divided in two; the northwest corner, including Portland and Salem, was assigned the 503 code and the remainder of the state received the new area code. The new code will be introduced with an eight- month... Full story
County health officials are reporting an increase in the number of pertussis, or whooping cough. Pertussis can be fatal for infants one year or younger. Parents of children with a severe cough lasting more than one week should contact their doctor. The disease is preventable by DTP or DTaP vaccine and officials are urging parents with children under 7 years to make sure their children are up to date on immunizations. Pertussis is a bacterial disease involving the respiratory tract that can be difficult to diagnose. It begins... Full story
