| Planners okay changes to Hood Avenue |
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A new extension of Hood Avenue will more closely resemble a city street
than a state highway following a joint session of the Deschutes County Planning
Commission and the Sisters Planning Commission on May 8. |
Pine Meadow Ranch Development's proposed extension will run west across
the northern portion of the ranch and turn to link up in a 90-degree intersection
with Highway 242. Planners also approved redesignating the road as a "collector"
street instead of an "arterial," or highway. |
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Deer pose
highway danger |
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Deer migrating to their summer range in the Sisters country must run
a gauntlet of highways, crossing open pavement and dodging hurtling cars.
Many don't make it. |
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| Fire season begins |
| An ember from a permitted burn blew into the brush at a residence in Squaw
Creek Canyon Thursday, May 8, igniting a brush fire that charred about three-quarters
of an acre before firefighters knocked it down. |
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| Classroom project building local support |
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Sisters is about to prove what a community working together can do.
A meeting of those who can contribute to a "room raising" of
four classrooms at the Sisters Elementary |
School has been set for Wednesday, May 14 at 11 a.m. in the administration
office board room.
This locally grown, grass roots, voluntary effort has blossomed since
the Sisters School Board voted to create a middle school using existing |
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| Holiday traffic detour |
| In hopes of breaking holiday gridlock on Cascade Avenue, the City of Sisters,
Oregon Department of Transportation and Deschutes National Forest have devised
a detour to route traffic around the downtown bottleneck. |
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| Hyde named Advisor of the Year |
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Sisters Middle/High School teacher and advisor Glenda Hyde has been named
Oregon Activity Advisor of the Year. "Being chosen is exciting,"
Hyde said, |
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| Kindergarten registration scheduled |
| Sisters School District will hold their annual Kindergarten RoundUp/preregistration
on Thursday, May 15, at 2:15 p.m. in the Elementary School Commons. Parents
of children who will be |
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