| School land exchange nears completion |
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Deschutes County will give about 260 acres of land west of Sisters Middle/High
School to the Sisters School District -- if the parties can agree on how
and by whom the land will be managed |
The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners approved the land exchange on
April 23, but the deal will not be final until the commission and the school
district sign a letter of understanding and record a conservation easement.
Early this year the school |
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| Burglary charges dropped |
Burglary and attempted burglary charges against Jason Alan Melton, 21,
of Sisters, have been dropped.
Melton was arrested after he allegedly entered a home on Indian Ford
Road. |
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Sisters to get
a Subway |
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It's not easy for a new eatery to move into Sisters, but the town will
soon host a Subway sandwich shop at the intersection of Hood Avenue and
Locust Street. |
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| Board proposes no teacher salary increase |
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The Sisters School Board has proposed no increase in the base salary
schedule for teachers in the 1997-98 school year. Teachers have requested
an increase of 4.8 percent.
The school district and teachers |
year of a four-year contract that spans 1994-1998.
The proposal offered by the school board to teachers on April 21 would
also allow the board to determine who is rehired after layoffs based on
"competence or merit," without regard to seniority. |
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Where to put
city hall? |
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Wrestling with budgets and lawsuits, handbooks and zoning, a city council
decision about what to do about moving city hall has been sent to the sidelines.
Not for long. |
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| Betty Marquardt, activist |
Betty Marquardt, Sisters area resident and political activist, died April
26. She was 73.
According to her family, Betty had been at St. Charles Medical Center
in Bend since Tuesday, April 22, |
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| PMR decision goes to court |
By Jim Cornelius
Opponents of the Pine Meadow Ranch development at the western edge of
Sisters have taken their case to the Oregon Court of Appeals. |
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