| Climber dies on Three Fingered Jack |
| By Eric Dolson
A mountain climber tumbled 800 feet off the west side of Three Fingered
Jack west of Camp Sherman on Sunday, October 26. |
According to reports from rescuers, Karl Roy Iwen, 27, of Salem, apparently
fell 200-300 feet near "The Crawl," then apparently cartwheeled
another 500 feet, and may have landed in a crevasse. |
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| Schwab store OK'd |
| By Jim Cornelius
The Les Schwab Taylor Tire Center at the western edge of Sisters should
be up and running in March or April of next year. |
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| Cost of sheriff merger a concern |
| By Jim Cornelius
Concerns about containing costs fueled the final public hearing on a
proposed police merger before the Sisters City Council Thursday |
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| ODOT plans Highway 20's future |
| By Jim Cornelius
A small town where the main drag is also a state highway poses what Oregon
Department of Transportation planner Peter Russell calls "an interesting
puzzle." |
Russell hosted an open house at Sisters City Hall Monday, October
27, to examine the pieces of that puzzle with Sisters area residents. The
sparsely-attended meeting was part of the preliminary planning for ODOT's
Salem-to-Bend Corridor |
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Firefighters
burn motel |
| Most of the former Silver Spur Motel at the west end of Sisters burned to
the ground Saturday, October 25, and everybody was happy about it. |
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Chief urges
burning restriction |
| On cloudy winter days, Sisters can get murky with smoke. When an inversion
layer presses down, smoke from woodstoves crawls out of chimneys and spills
down |
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| Chamber gets new board members |
| The Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce has appointed two new Board Members.
Jean Wells Keenan and Ed Fitzjarrel were both named to the board to fill |
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