Central Oregon fire danger is
extreme
The
woods around Sisters are a tinderbox. According
to Mark Rapp, Assistant Fire Management Officer for the Sisters Ranger
District, local fire conditions are rated "extreme."
State
budget crunch may hammer schools
Sisters schools
are reeling from a $320,000 budget shortfall going into the coming school
year -- and future years may not look any brighter.
Cell phone proposals proliferate
Proposals for
wireless communications towers are proliferating in the area east of Sisters
like mushrooms after a rainstorm.
Deputies vote to endorse challenger
Members of the Deschutes
County Sheriff's Employees Association voted overwhelmingly last week
to endorse Les Stiles for Sheriff in the November election.
Sisters man drowns at Scout Lake
A 19-year-old Sisters
man drowned at Scout Lake on Thursday, August 4.
Music featured at Country Fair
Music, most of it
home grown, will be a highlight of the Fifth Annual Country Fair at the
Church of the Transfiguration on Saturday, August 12.