-School district cuts down blue spruce trees

Two towering blue spruce trees that loomed over the east entrance to the old Sisters School District building at the corner of Locust Street and Cascade Avenue are gone.

According to district facilities manager, Bob Martin, the trees had to be removed because “both the architect and the landscaper, Mike Burke, told us they were undermining the sidewalks and footings” of the building.

The site is to be refurbished and used as an administrative site for the school district, part of a “campus” that will include the new Sisters Library and a new City Hall.

Joel Aylor, who owns Sisters Tree Service, which took down the trees, told Martin he remembered being able to jump over the trees when he was a student at the old school some 40 years ago.