Pine Street project rolls along

The ride may be a bit bumpy, but Sisters residents can still travel on Pine Street to get to businesses in the Industrial Park.

Crews from Bend Aggregate started work last week on a $160,000 county project that will widen and repave Pine Street north of Cascade Avenue, and add 2,030 feet of curbing on the east side of the street.

Crews moved in on Monday, September 29, and started to work the next day. The broken-up street was nearly impassable on Wednesday, October 1, but once a grader smoothed the raw dirt road bed, traffic began moving through again.

According to Sisters Public Works Director Gary Frazee, the project contract requires that the street be closed for no more than 20 minutes at a time.

Six property owners along North Pine Street are paying approximately $47,000 for the project and the City of Sisters is contributing $25,000 from a small cities allotment grant. Deschutes County is funding the balance of the project.

Frazee noted that the Sisters populace is not being tapped to pay for the project.

Crews were to begin digging trenching for drywells early in the week so that the curbing could be completed.

The project is to be completed by October 31.