George Ponte of the Oregon Department of Forestry, left, presents a letter of commendation to manager Dan Hewitt of Barclay Contractors.

Local loggers honored for careful work
Barclay Contractors received a letter of commendation from the Oregon Department of Forestry on Friday, December 15.

Power woes bypass Sisters country
California is starved for power and the Northwest has been pushed to provide it, but those problems have not had much effect locally.

Sisters plan offers intersection fix, signals
Traffic signals on Cascade Avenue, elimination of the intersection of Highways 20 and 242 and possibly a one-way couplet through town are recommended for Sisters by the Oregon Department of Transportation.

School board to select architect
The Sisters School District has begun the process of selecting an architect of record.

District to receive federal timber money
The Sisters School District will be approximately $56,000 richer come December of next year.

Questions remain about cell tower
Time may be running out on a microwave communications corporation seeking to erect a 150-foot tall cell tower in Sisters.

Greg Brown named sheriff of the year
It's a month late and several thousand votes short, but Greg Brown's peers presented the outgoing Deschutes County Sheriff with a signal honor this month.

Sisters High School has significant damage
Engineers evaluating structural deterioration at the 10-year old Sisters High School have identified water-related damage that may cost the district as much as $500,000 to repair, according to Sisters School Superintendent Steve Swisher.

Sisters properties left off sewer
Approximately 11 lots in the Buck Run subdivision in Sisters have been left out of the city's sewer plans.

Local firefighting resources get a boost
In a year of political turmoil, one of Congress' important achievements was passage of legislation to boost wildland firefighting resources.

Book offers record of pioneer cemetery
For over a century Camp Polk Cemetery has been the final resting place for many local residents. Now, through the efforts of Nancy Clark and Betty Howard, an exhaustive record of the pioneer cemetery has been compiled in a new book.