| Sisters seeks answers on sewer project |
| Sisters residents are raising questions about the cost, the need,
and the environmental impacts of a proposed sewer system in the city. They
will vote on whether to approve the $12,189,000 project in May. |
The city and its engineering firm, HGE, Inc., of Coos Bay, told residents
at a Tuesday, January 20, workshop, that they have found a way to reduce
the immediate cost impact on residents. |
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| School program feeds students |
| Each day, 650 Sisters students get a square meal at school. Out of these,
206 students get their meals for free or at a reduced cost through a federal
school meals program. |
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| Burglars strike home |
| Deputies from the Sisters sheriff's station discovered a break in
at a vacation home in town on Tuesday, January 21. According to sheriff's
department reports, Sisters Public Works Director Gary Frazee reported a
possible burglary at 153 West |
Adams Street.
Deputies investigated and found the door to the mobile home closed but
unlocked. They reported that one or more burglars broke out a bedroom window
to get into the mobile home, |
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| County may swap for park site |
| Deschutes County has entered into a land exchange agreement with Sisters-area
resident Eric Dolson that could add six acres and a residential dwelling
to Smith Rock State Park, while Dolson will |
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| Trashing Sisters forests |
| Weekend partiers are making a trash heap out of the forests south
of Sisters, and Sisters Ranger District law enforcement officer Larry Duncan
is asking residents to help stop the littering. |
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| Activists seek developers' dollars |
| The Committee to Save Sisters has asked the Sisters City Council to place
a measure on the May 19 ballot which would require developers to pay the
maximum systems development charges |
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