Downed plane takes backroads to airport

 By Jim Cornelius

A twin-engine Apache PA-23 airplane that made a forced landing in Metolius Meadows Saturday, August 23, continued its odyssey last week.

Plane owner Holbrook Maslen and some local friends towed the plane

behind a pickup truck from Camp Sherman on backroads over Green Ridge to the Sisters airport on Tuesday, August 26.

Maslen decided to tow the plane out instead of attempting a take-off from the meadow amid houses and trees.

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Grant boosts
school's technology

By Jo Zucker

Sisters schools have received a financial shot in the arm that will help them upgrade computers, provide the elementary and middle schools with a tele-phone/intercom

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Sisters police bust traveler for forgery

Jim Cornelius

Charles Edward Richardson of Lowell, Oregon, was just one of many travelers who stopped in Sisters last week to do a little

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Back to school with new facilities, calendar

 By Jo Zucker

School began on Tuesday, September 2, with something new and different for everyone.

Both the elementary and middle schools will have a new calendar,

with the last day of class on June 30.

High school classes end June 4. Kindergarten through eighth grade students have longer winter and spring breaks and a shorter
summer break.

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Convict wants to put DA on trial

By Eric Dolson

From his cell in the federal correctional institution in Sheridan, Oregon, Brent Steven Sherman, Sr. has apparently given Deschutes County District Attorney Michael Dugan and the State of Oregon yet another lesson in the law.

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Taylor defends Sisters tire store

By Jim Cornelius

Jerry Taylor believes his Les Schwab-affiliated tire store fills a need in the Sisters community, and he promises that the store he intends to build at the western edge of Sisters will be "a class act."

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Pickup smacks semi on Highway 20

By Jim Cornelius

A 17-year-old Mt. Angel youth was killed Tuesday, August 26, in a collision on Highway 20 between Suttle Lake and Santiam Pass. According to Oregon State Poli wa

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