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6 Wednesday, January 18, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Smith takes on Pentagon position PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS A disputed strip of property will be sold to the City of Sisters. City, Marlows settle over Main Ave. property The City offered to pay the Marlows $40,000 for the 25 feet, but they declined the offer. The City responded by removing the sidewalk and parking spaces, on the advice of the City’s insurance com- pany attorney. When the case went to the Court of Appeals, the judge ordered the Marlows to pay their own legal fees. The City has a sewer main under Main Avenue that runs right down the middle of the 25 feet. Because of that, it is imperative that the City owns the land. The Marlows have now accepted the City’s offer of $31,000, which will come from the City’s sewer fund and the street fund. The City and the Marlows have also agreed to a reim- bursement agreement. If the Marlows sell or improve their property, they will pay for the improvements made by the City or make the improvements themselves. The property is currently on the market. By Sue Stafford Correspondent The City of Sisters and a Sisters property owner have come to an agreement that cleans up a seven-year-old misunderstanding. Seven years ago, believ- ing the City owned a 25-foot strip of property across Main Avenue to the north of City Hall, the city installed a side- walk and parking spaces. Dave and Sandy Marlow of Sisters, who own the lot that adjoins the 25 feet where the improvements were made, also believed the City owned that strip, as did the County and the surveyor who years before had con- ducted a survey. The new sidewalk and parking spaces matched the rest of Main Avenue. After discovering they did, in fact, own the 25 feet, the Marlows sued the City for trespass — not for any money, but to establish their claim to the property. GET WARM AND SAVE MONEY! 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Admiral Smith is cur- rently the Commander, Navy In s t al l at i o n s C o m m an d (CNIC), responsible for maintaining and provid- ing operational and quality- of-life services across the Navy’s 71 installations, both here at home and abroad. The Smiths reside on the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., where Smith also has his office. The U.S. Senate has con- firmed the Chief of Naval Operations’ (CNO) intent to reassign Admiral Smith to the Pentagon where he will assume duties as Deputy CNO for Fleet Readiness and Logistics, known in Navy talk as OPNAV N4. As such he will be responsible to the CNO for establish- ing policy and determining the resourcing requirements for the Navy’s energy and environmental programs, logistics (bullets, beans, spare parts, etc.), the Navy’s Military Sealift Command ships and shore infrastruc- ture. The CNIC formal out- going Change of Command is set for March 31, at the Washington Navy Yard. Admiral Smith will assume his new staff position shortly thereafter. As for A d m i r a l Smith’s Naval career to date, he graduated and received his commis- sion from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1983 at the age of 22. He has served in command 13 of his 33 years of naval service, to include the last 11 consecutive years. With the rank of com- mander, his first command was as captain of the Aegis destroyer USS THE SULLIVANS. Admiral Dixon Following a Pentagon. subsequent tour at the United States Naval Academy mentoring midshipmen, he returned to command with sequen- tial tours as Commander Naval Base San Diego, Commander Navy Region Hawaii, Commander Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, Commander Navy Region Southwest, then Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, and finally for the past 2-1/2 years as Commander, Navy Installations PHOTO PROVIDED Smith has been reassigned to the Command. 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