The Nugget Newspaper September 4, 1996 for Sisters, Oregon

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Serving Deschutes County	Sisters Oregon
VOL. XX NO. 36	September 4, 1996

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Army defeats Sisters fire
By Jim Cornelius A 600-strong U.S. Army task force pulled out of Sisters Saturday, August 31, after doing battle with the 700-acre Park Meadow blaze 13 miles southwest of town. The blaze was declared contained the same day.	The Task Force Vanguard/3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division hit the fire lines Tuesday, August 27, to battle the blaze sparked by a lighting strike Friday, August 23. The unit, stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, came to more...

School enrollment is up

By Eric Dolson
Enrollment at Sisters Elementary was up only slightly when students returned to classrooms on September 3, while the middle/high school saw a jump of 33 students, from 551 to 588. more...

Warm Springs Tribes settle water rights

WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (AP) -- The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs have reached a settlement with the state over rights to water from the Deschutes River basin, including the Metolius River. more...

Lebanon man arrested for punching wife
By Jim Cornelius A Lebanon man was arrested Tuesday, August 27, after he allegedly punched his wife in an argument at a campground near Camp Sherman. According to the Jefferson	County Sheriff's Department, Charles M. Mercier, 36, was deer hunting in the Camp Sherman area near First Creek with his wife. The couple allegedly had an argument over when they would return home to Lebanon. more...

Park Meadow smolders

By Jeff Schroeder
Firefighters contained the 700-acre Park Meadow blaze 13 miles southwest of Sisters on Saturday, August 31.

The 500 troops from Fort Carson, Colorado who were called in to help battle more...

Where have all the flowers gone?

By Jim Cornelius
Someone is raiding flower pots and planters in Sisters.

Four businesses on the east end of town were struck by a flower thief or thieves over the August 24-25 weekend. more...

Woman arrested for writing bad checks

By Jim Cornelius
A Redmond woman was arrested by Sisters police Friday, August 30, on charges that she wrote 15 bad checks to 11 Sisters businesses over rodeo weekend in June. more...

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