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Winter snows bring treacherous roads
Winter hit higher elevations last week, making for hazardous driving conditions. As much as a foot-and-a-half of snow fell on the Santiam Pass by Saturday night, October 19, compounding danger on the already treacherous stretch of the... — Updated 10/22/1996 Full story
Rotarian delivers more than good will
Mark Goddard, the former president and current International Service Director of the Rotary Club of Sisters, returned to Sisters last week from his seventh trip to the Talamaca Valley in the tropical forests of mountainous southeastern... — Updated 10/8/1996 Full story
Santiam timber sold
The Santiam corridor salvage timber sale was auctioned at $3,158,787 to Bugaboo Timber Co. of Mill City last Tuesday, September 17. A total of 1,022 acres in the Santiam corridor are slated for logging in this sale. Seven hundred acres will... — Updated 9/24/1996 Full story
Santiam salvage logging advances amid protest
After hearing public comment, the Sisters Ranger District will implement a salvage logging project that aims to reduce the risk of fire in the Santiam Corridor near Suttle and Blue Lakes. The auction of 19 million board feet of timber from... — Updated 9/10/1996 Full story
Cell phone tower approved
A 35-foot cellular phone antenna tower and equipment shelter will soon spike the toe of McKinney Butte in the Wild Horse Ridge subdivision east of Sisters. At a public hearing Tuesday, September 3, County Hearings Officer Karen Green... — Updated 9/10/1996 Full story
Park Meadow smolders
Firefighters contained the 700-acre Park Meadow blaze 13 miles southwest of Sisters on Saturday, August 31. The 500 troops from Fort Carson, Colorado who were called in to help battle the Three Sisters Wilderness wildfire were redeployed to... — Updated 9/3/1996 Full story
Troops called to battle Sisters blaze
Smoke choked the air in and around Sisters last weekend as a 590-acre lightning-caused blaze flared up in the wilderness near Park Meadow 13 miles south of town. Three firefighting crews and a helicopter were at work Monday morning laying ho... — Updated 8/27/1996 Full story
Tollgate meeting stormy
Tempers flared and accusations flew among Tollgate residents at the annual meeting of the Tollgate Property Owners Association Saturday, August 17. Several property owners vigorously objected to proposed changes in association bylaws and... — Updated 8/20/1996 Full story
Firefighters risk lives in the line of fire
All it takes is a lightning strike, or a carelessly tossed cigarette, and a handful of brave individuals must lay their lives on the line to save acres of forests or to keep a blaze from engulfing campgrounds and homes. After nearly a month... — Updated 8/13/1996 Full story
Development to receive city water
Water from the City of Sisters will flow into commercial and residential developments on Pine Meadow Ranch development unless opponents of the project succeed in shutting off the spigot. The Sisters City Council approved PMR Development's... — Updated 8/13/1996 Full story
Blaze subdued at Indian Ford
A brush fire scorched about half an a acre of wilderness near Indian Ford Campground northwest of Sisters Friday, August 9. Three crews from the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire District, two from the Sisters Ranger District, and two from... — Updated 8/13/1996 Full story
Forest Service to thin in Green Ridge area
The Sisters Ranger District has proposed a precommercial forest-thinning project in the Green Ridge area. The precommercial thin, proposed for nine locations geographically from Green Ridge to Bluegrass Butte, will improve forest health,... — Updated 8/6/1996 Full story
County relaxes rules on storage buildings
County residents without plans to build a house can again build storage sheds and garages for recreational vehicles, according to a decision by the Deschutes County Planning Commission. A previous amendment to Title 18, adopted last... — Updated 7/30/1996 Full story
Santiam Corridor set for salvage
The views from the Santiam Highway near Suttle Lake will soon be considerably altered. The Sisters Ranger District has approved a project that will thin the forest along Highway 20 in the Suttle Lake area, removing many of the dead and... — Updated 7/23/1996 Full story
Firefighters contain cigarette-sparked fire
Firefighters have contained a blaze that swept over 1,100 acres of the Jefferson Wilderness last week and filled the air northwest of Sisters with a haze of smoke. It may be a long time before the flames are completely out. Up to 704 firefig... — Updated 7/16/1996 Full story
