News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The Sisters community reached out a helping hand this holiday season, providing gifts and food baskets to Sisters families in need. The Kiwanis food basket program distributed 83 turkey or ham Christmas dinners with all the trimmings, and 130 gifts were provided for Sisters kids through the Giving Tree located at Ray's Food Place. Kiwanis reported receiving a little over $3,700 in cash donations, most of which went to the food bank; the remainder was used for the gift fund.... Full story
Jan van den Berg will resign from the Sisters School Board since he has enrolled his sixth-grade son at Sunriver Preparatory School. The family will move to Bend in February. "I just felt he was not getting the academic intensity he needs and deserves (in Sisters)," van den Berg said on Monday, December 29. The boy has been going to school at Sunriver since before Thanksgiving. Van den Berg has never hidden his disagreements with the general thrust of public education. "The school is trying to be too much of a social... Full story
Sisters' mayor Steve Wilson thinks the city ought to consider annexing all the land within the city's Urban Growth Boundary as a means of controlling the city's future. Wilson believes that bringing all the UGB lands within the city limits would give Sisters residents greater control of development in those areas, and would provide the City of Sisters with significant financial benefits. Currently, lands that are outside the city limits but inside the Urban Growth Boundary... Full story
The U.S. Forest Service wants to launch an aggressive campaign to roll back an invasion of foreign plants that threaten to choke native vegetation on the Deschutes National Forest. The agency is looking for public comment on a proposal to pull weeds, spray with herbicides, burn, and assault weeds with insects at 235 sites. The main enemy in the Sisters country is two varieties of knapweed - diffuse and spotted - which infest sites along roads and spread rampantly when their... Full story
The debate about management of old-growth forests near Sisters usually conjures thoughts about soaring big, old trees. Old trees are a big part of "old growth" or "late successional forests," but thousands of other species play important roles in these unique forest habitats. Under the Northwest Forest Plan, federal land management agencies such as the Forest Service are now required to consider many smaller and less charismatic species than the famed spotted owl. Old growth forests are believed to link thousands of diverse... Full story
* * * To the Editor: When Michael Goodwin says he can refute every statement that Steve Huddleston made (The Nugget, December 10), he undoubtedly can. There are several factors that contribute to his being able to so. His 30 years of first hand experience in the timber industry is one factor. Another is the fact that as a member of the timber industry he bears the burden of having to tell the truth. In my experience, this is not a burden that the environmental community has consistently chosen to bear. Mr. Goodwin should be... Full story
As teachers and students put the finishing touches on their new classrooms, the fund-raising campaign for the classroom-raising project is wrapping up. The "thermometer" on the middle school grounds that has measured fund-raising progress is red to the top now, signifying that the project has reached its financial goal. According to volunteer Dennis McGregor, contributors who still want to get their name inscribed on a brick must fill out their information form and get it in t... Full story
