News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Sisters police officers are trading their blue uniforms for the brown and khaki of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department. The Sisters City Council approved a contract Thursday, December 11, which turns over police services in the city to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department. The contract takes effect January 1, 1998. Police chief Rich Shawver and his three officers were to be sworn in as deputies in a ceremony on Wednesday, December 17, at a meeting of the county... Full story
Sisters residents will vote, most likely in May, to decide whether the city will have a sewer system. It is probably Sisters' last chance to get partial funding for a sewer project from grants. Sisters Mayor Steve Wilson, city administrator Barbara Warren and Dick Nored of HGE Engineering attended a meeting with various potential granting agencies in Salem on Wednesday, December 9. They came away confident that the city could get about $4 million in grants to help fund the... Full story
Sisters police have arrested the man they believe stole a Hoyt's Lumber and Building Supply truck last November 12, crashing through the steel gate at the lumber yard as he made his getaway. Police arrested Randall Scott Hobaugh, 38, in Redmond, after sheriff's deputies nabbed him on several outstanding warrants. According to police, they got on Hobaugh's trail after a woman in Vida reported that he showed up at her house November 12, with the truck, saying that he worked for the company. The woman knew Hobaugh by one of... Full story
Calls to the Sisters Post Office are now being routed to a center in Colorado. The U.S. Postal Service says the new system is intended to increase customer satisfaction. But it is a big change from small town service, at least in rural Oregon. One of the first things a caller has to do, after dialing the new 800 number (1-800-275-8777, or 1-800-ASK-USPS) is decide if the call should continue in English. According to U.S. Postal Service spokesman Robin Wright in Colorado, the new system is designed to improve service, and... Full story
Police nabbed a car theft suspect after a routine traffic stop on East Jefferson Avenue Sunday, December 14. According to police, an officer stopped James Lee Meadows at about 9:30 p.m. after he turned from Highway 20 onto Hood Avenue without using the left turn lane. Meadows reportedly couldn't produce a driver's license, and gave the police what proved to be a false name. Police discovered that the station wagon Meadows was driving was reported stolen out of Bend. After that discovery, Meadows, 30, allegedly confirmed his... Full story
With revenues from the Fantastic Museum proving less than fantastic, the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce has shed its management responsibility for the museum. According to chamber manager Steve Shunk, museum owner Jim Schmit was supportive of the decision, which leaves the management and marketing of the museum in his hands. "Mr. Schmit was very generous and made a decision that was in all parties' best interests," Shunk said. The chamber agreed to go into partnership with... Full story
Wes Estvold, a sixth grade teacher at Sisters Middle School, won a Jeep Cherokee in the Booster Club's Jeep raffle on Saturday, December 13. Estvold's name was drawn during the varsity boys' basketball game against Marist High School, by a girls' basketball player from Marist. The raffle for the jeep has been going on since the middle of September. The 1988 Jeep was donated to the Booster Club by Sharon and Dick Mooney to raise money for the sports program at Sisters High School. Dick Mooney has often helped the golf program... Full story
* * * To the Editor: In his December 10 Letter to the Editor, Michael Goodwin states he can disprove every statement made my me in the previous week's article in The Nugget regarding logging the Santiam LSR. Obviously incapable of doing that, he instead resorts to a harsh personal attack on me and environmentalists in general. He broadly labels people like me as "people who don't even know what work is." Excuse me Mr. Goodwin, but for a good portion of the time that you were out in the forest cutting down our national... Full story
