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Nason trial nears final chapter

By Eric Dolson
The following is not, in the strict sense, a news story. It includes impressions beyond words spoken in the courtroom. Sometimes, facts can obscure the truth. Reader be warned. The Nason trial is coming to an end. After more than 200 witnesses, with more than 89,000 pages of discovery and an exhibit list that runs into the thousands, Diane Nason is set

Jazz festival sets Sisters dancing to the music

By Jim Cornelius
Jazz buffs from all over the west joined enthusiastic local residents to welcome the Fifth Annual High Mountains Dixieland Jazz festival to Sisters this weekend.

With five venues swinging day and night,

Speed limit cut on McKenzie Highway

Sisters area motorists will soon have to ease up on the gas on the McKenzie Highway from Cascade Street to Edgington Road.

The Oregon Department of Transportation and the state Highway Commission have

Water bill outrage pours into Sisters City Hall

Sisters residents have flooded city hall with complaints over recent water bills. Meters now measure nearly every gallon and once-emerald lawns have withered to a parched brown.

"Everybody is upset. The city council is upset," acknowledged City

Administrator Barbara Warren on Friday, September 15.

The new meters are the result of improvements to the Sisters water supply system over the last

Sisters wins recycler
of the year award

By Jim Cornelius

Sisters doesn't have to have a recycling program that serves as a model for other towns. Small as it is, Sisters is exempt from state requirements that make other cities conduct curb-side recycling pickups and commercial cardboard

Hunting season looks promising

Legions of hunters clad in blaze orange will soon take to the woods around Sisters as the regular Oregon deer hunting season opens September 30.

Oregon Fish & Wildlife department biologist Steve George said the prognosis is for a good season in local

Sisters horsewomen succeed at state fair

By Jim Cornelius

Erin Deggendorfer of Sisters went into Oregon State Fair 4-H horsemanship competition August 16-18 expecting to perform well. After all, she won blue ribbons in several events at the Deschutes County Fair.

But competition at the state level is tough.