News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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This Christmas will be extra special for more than 30 Sisters elementary and middle school students who were to receive home computers on Wednesday, December 23. A local group of anonymous donors provided funds to purchase 35 computers with upgraded memories and modems from a Nashville, Tennessee, computer liquidator. The computers were trucked from Tennessee by Interstate Distribution, which donated its freight services. The computers were to be given to qualified students... Full story
Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District won the business category and Gene and Amber Carlson, 69382 Lariat, in Tollgate won the residence category in the Sisters area Christmas lighting contest. Judging for the contest, sponsored by the sisters Area Chamber of Commerce, was held on Friday, December 18. Second place in the commercial category went to Season's Cafe and Wine Shop and third place to Western Title. Residential second place honors were awarded to Jackie Kolb, 242 N. Larch, and third place to Kim... Full story
Timber framer Derwyn Hanney left Sisters on October 15 to join 30 other timber framers and another 15 of their European counterparts in Inverness, Scotland - a long stone's fling from the shores of Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Hanney, who works at Earthwood Homes, went to Scotland to help build a medieval siege machine called a trebuchet. The project was filmed by NOVA for their Secrets of Lost Empires series, to be shown on PBS television. "I responded to a notice of the project in our guild news- letter," Hanney... Full story
Over 40 residential lots in the Sisters city limits lie in the Squaw Creek floodplain. At least five homes lie inside the boundary of the "100-year flood." According to the Sisters/Why-chus Watershed Analysis released by the Sisters Ranger District in October 1998, "Squaw Creek is subject to large floods and is a serious threat to homes and structures within its floodplain." The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a study on the Squaw Creek floodplain in August 1978, which acknowledged that, "some residential and... Full story
Deschutes National Forest officials will deploy human hands, insects, chemicals and fire to battle noxious weeds invading the forest. Forest Supervisor Sally Collins released her decision December 10 to treat 166 of 235 known weed sites. Chemical herbicides will be applied at 40 sites on 476 acres. A total of 1,531 acres will be treated by all methods. According to the Noxious Weed Control Environmental Assessment released September 1998, 16 species of aggressive, non-native plants threaten native plant communities in the... Full story
The Deschutes County Watershed Council will receive $58,753 from the Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board. According to council spokesperson Barbara Lee, the two grant awards will help her organization and its partner, the Deschutes Soil and Water Conservation District, support the goals of The Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. A $13, 640 grant will be used to develop a water quality monitoring program in collaboration with local, state, and federal management agencies, Lee said. The program will result in a comprehens... Full story
* * * To the Editor: The Squaw Creek Committee is delighted that you printed the story about our efforts to improve the watershed. I do however, need to call attention to one mistake in the headline and lead paragraph ("Local watershed committee to restore creek flows," December 9, p. 16). The Nugget stated that we were "restoring pre-irrigation flows to Squaw Creek." It is not and has never been our intent to restore flows to pre-irrigation levels. It is true that the creek is currently oversubscribed, but it is not true... Full story
Developers of a proposed buisness park at the north edge of Sisters want to be annexed into the city. The annexation plan for Barclay Meadows Business Park got the nod from the Sisters Urban Area Planning Commission Wednesday, December 16, but the developers still have to file a comprehensive plan amendment to bring the property within the Urban Growth Boundary. The commissioners also recommended a zone change for the property from exclusive farm use to light industrial, as... Full story
