| SERVING DESCHUTES COUNTY |
Accident victim no stranger to authoritiesBy Leslie Brown | |
| Walter Lesley Mault, 32, who died in a one- vehicle accident near Camp Sherman the morning of September 5, was well known to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department. |
A Deschutes County grand jury indicted Mault July 25 on charges of possessing
and manufacturing a controlled substance (methamphetamine), following an
investigation by the Bend Police Department. He failed to make an August 28
court appearance to enter a plea and a warrant for
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How should Sisters grow?
By Eric DolsonCity Hall was packed to the walls on September 7 with people who came to fight over the future of Sisters. The city council was taking public testimony on the
Timber salvage sale
The U.S. Forest Service is accepting bids on the "Halloween Blowdown Salvage" timber sale on the Sisters Ranger District.
The are 258 trees or portions of trees being offered for sale in pockets
extending
Juveniles nabbed in burglary | |
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Sisters police assisted Oregon State Police in foiling a burglary at an
Indian Ford home Sunday, September 10.
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According to police reports, the owners of the home on Deer Ridge Road came
home that evening to find a strange car parked in their garage and lights on in
the house. The homeowners called police on their cellular phone.
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Sisters residents rally against gravel mine
By Jim Cornelius
Over 100 Sisters area residents gathered at Sisters Middle/High School
football field September 9 to register opposition to a proposed surface mine
and gravel crushing operation four miles west of Sisters.
Dempsey is named Principal of the Year
By Eric Dolson
Dennis Dempsey, Principal of Sisters Middle/Senior High School, has been
named Oregon Principal of the Year by the Oregon Association of Secondary
School Administrators and the National Association of Secondary School
Schools see jump in enrollment
By Eric Dolson
Sisters schools are nearly out of room. There are 555 students in
Sisters Middle/Senior High School, a facility that Principal Dennis Dempsey
feels was designed for 550.