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Wednesday, December 28, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
New Sisters-Redmond
bus route set
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Beginning February 1,
2017, Cascades East Transit
(CET) will institute a new
bus route between Sisters
and Bend.
The schedule has been
developed to accommo-
date students and people
employed in Bend. The bus
will stop on the east end
of Main Avenue near the
library, and on the west end
of Main before going to the
stop between Ray’s Food
Place and the St. Charles
clinic. There will be signage
at each stop along the fixed
route with time points at East
Main and Ray’s.
The proposed schedule
can be found on the CET
website (http://cascadeseast
transit.com). There will
be no flag stops along the
routes; riders must be at one
of the fixed locations. All
buses are ADA compliant. In
Bend, riders will be taken to
the bus hub at Hawthorn and
4th Street, where they will
be able to transfer to inner-
city buses for other points in
Bend.
The Redmond-Sisters
buses and the Tuesday bus
within Sisters will remain
unchanged. The Redmond-
Sisters ridership grew from
2,689 in 2015 to 5,292 in
2016. The doubled ridership
is attributed to 26 students
who utilize the bus to the
Heart of Oregon Corps on
Highway 126 and George
Cyrus Road, as well as stu-
dents from Sisters who ride
into Redmond to attend
the Redmond Proficiency
Academy.
The central bus hub in
Redmond will be moving in
the fall of 2017 to the area by
Lowe’s and Fred Meyer.
The Sisters City Council
approved the biennial agree-
ment between CET and
Sisters.
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Ridership is up and a route between Bend and Sisters is on the horizon.
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A Christmas miracle
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The owner was visiting
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In a desperate attempt to
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trap was checked three times
a day, and Gracie was finally
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for a dog on her own for nine
months.
The dog had a microchip
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were heard when the owner
was told her dog was found.
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her family on Wednesday,
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