The Nugget Newspaper August 14, 1996 for Sisters, Oregon

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Serving Deschutes County	Sisters Oregon
VOL. XX NO. 33	August 14, 1996

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Blaze subdued at Indian Ford
By Jeff Schroeder A brush fire scorched about half an a acre of wilderness near Indian Ford Campground northwest of Sisters Friday, August 9. Three crews from the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire District, two from the	Sisters Ranger District, and two from the Oregon Department of Forestry responded to a call from the Black Butte firetower at about 2 p.m. It took crews about four hours to extinguish the blaze just north of the more...

Layoffs loom as Sisters faces deep budget cuts

By Eric Dolson
City employees may feel the pain as Sisters slices its budget with a knife honed by two years of deficit spending.

At a staff meeting on August 7, City Administrator Barbara Warren asked more...

Sisters students equipped to explore cyberspace

By Jim Cornelius
Sisters students now have a vast trove of research information at their fingertips. Starting this year, all 25 computers in the Sisters Middle/High School computer lab and the six computers in the library are hooked up for more...

Firefighters risk lives in the line of fire
By Jeff Schroeder All it takes is a lightning strike, or a carelessly tossed cigarette, and a handful of brave individuals must lay their lives on the line to save acres of forests or to keep a blaze from engulfing campgrounds and homes. After nearly a month of dirty, exhausting and dangerous work, the 3,648-acre Jefferson	blaze was contained on August 2 by fire crews from the Sisters Fire District and surrounding areas. The stubborn blaze tested the mettle of the men and women who have been battling it since it was started by an errant cigarette on July 8. The terrain where the fire burned -- and is still smoldering -- made for extremely hostile firefighting conditions. more...

Wrestling survives school budget crunch

By Jim Hollon
As the fiscal noose tightens on Sisters schools, the school board is searching for ways to save co-curricular programs.

The Sisters School Board approved the more...

Phone service to Sisters cut by dump truck

By Eric Dolson
Phone communication to and from Sisters, Black Butte and Camp Sherman was cut on August 6 when a dump truck with its bed raised ripped out a fiber optic phone line east of Sisters. more...

Development to receive city water

By Jeff Schroeder
Water from the City of Sisters will flow into commercial and residential developments on Pine Meadow Ranch development unless opponents of the project succeed in shutting off the spigot.

The Sisters City Council more...

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