| Schools hit with surprise cash crunch |
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An emergency cash shortfall has hit the Sisters School District, and
all employees, from the superintendent on down, will take a five-day pay
cut to help balance this year's budget. |
Some of those days may be made up in the next fiscal year, after
July 1.
According to schools Superintendent Steve Swisher, the district received
notice last week from the State of Oregon that the final payment |
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City fires
police chief |
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The City of Sisters fired Police Chief David Haynes on May 15. Haynes
had been on suspension since May 1. |
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| Classroom project rallies Sisters |
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Volunteers are nailing down timetables and blueprinting the logistics
to build four new classrooms at Sisters Elementary |
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| Cougar passing through Sisters |
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An adult cougar, probably a male, left tracks when he wandered through
Kim and Kelly Renwick's back yard near McKinney Butte last Tuesday, May
20. |
McKinney Butte is only a hop-skip-and-a-jump from Camp Polk for
a cougar--where one killed a deer and stashed it away near a home last year.
After observing the cougar's tracks, |
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| Land exchange agreement |
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Negotiators hammered out terms of a conservation easement and clinched
a transfer of over 260 acres west of Sisters from Deschutes County to the
Sisters School District on May 14. |
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Pavilion walls
to fall |
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Wayne Scott, owner of the Mountain Shadows RV Park, has agreed to take
down the sides of the large pavilion adjacent to Highway 20 just west of
the Threewind shopping center. |
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| Burglar breaks in, breaks out |
Sisters police investigated an apparent burglary at a residence on Washington
Street Friday, May 16.
The resident reportedly came home to find the house broken into at about
2:30 p.m. Police reported finding pry marks |
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