| Lightning strikes fire into Sisters wilderness |
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A lightning strike at about 4 p.m. sparked the first major wilderness
wildfire of the season on Monday, July 28.
"Black Butte (lookout) picked it up |
right away. It was a hot strike that went right to a large column (of
smoke), said Mark Rapp, who was incident commander Monday night.
Rapp said there was no moisture associated with the thunder storm, which
allowed the lightning |
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| Sisters man killed in ATV wreck |
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Gale Oliver Bearden, 46, of Sisters, was killed on Wednesday, July 23,
when the all-terrain vehicle he was riding rolled over on him. |
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| Ex-Chief Haynes sues City of Sisters |
| Former Police Chief David Haynes, fired by the City of Sisters on May 15,
1997, is suing the city and City Admin-istrator Barbara Warren for a total
of $1.2 million. |
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| Disease kills wild birds in Sisters area |
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Be on the alert for the dying wild birds frequenting feeders in the Sisters
area. Something has gone wrong - finches, Pine Siskins, crossbills and Evening
Grosbeaks |
have been found dead in the Sage Meadows area.
It was just about this time last year that salmonellosis (sal-moh-neh-LOW-sis)
broke out among the crossbills in the |
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| Police lawsuit settled |
| The City of Sisters has settled a lawsuit filed by its police officers by
agreeing to pay the officers approximately $30,000 including damages and
attorney's fees. |
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| Sisters weighs future of police |
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Sisters area residents will soon start exploring whether to contract
city police service out to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department. |
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| Sisters police make drug bust |
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Sisters police arrested a Bend man and a Redmond woman Friday, July 25,
on drug, theft and weapons charges stemming |
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