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Fire district offers
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How to rock the
roundabout page 17
The Nugget
Vol. XXXX No. 22
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
The roundabout at the west
end of Sisters at Highway 20
and Barclay Drive is open and
operating.
Landscape work and an art
installation will be forthcom-
ing in coming months.
The Sisters community,
in a detailed public process,
chose back in 2011 to pursue
a roundabout as the preferred
traffic-control measure at the
Barclay/Highway 20 intersec-
tion. Since then, ODOT has
been pursuing that route. A
key element of determining
the viability of a roundabout at
that location was buy-in from
the state’s freight industry.
On-the-ground tests of a mock
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
And they’re off!
Sisters
roundabout
is fully
operational
Kucera is
Sisters’
new city
manager
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Jade Robinson led off the Sisters Stampede Mountain Bike Race on Sunday, May 28. Some 500 riders
participated in the event, which has become Sisters’ signature summer kickoff event. See story, page 7.
See ROUNDABOUT on page 16
Correspondent
After 12 years and some
$600,000 in legal bills, the
owners of the McKenzie
Meadow Village (MMV)
p r o p e r t y, t h e Wi l l i t t s ,
Kallberg, and Reed fami-
lies, won agreement from
the Sisters City Council to an
amendment to their original
annexation agreement at the
May 24 Council meeting.
One of the major pre-
scriptive requirements of the
original agreement called
for construction and occu-
pancy of an assisted-living
facility in MMV before any
other development could
occur. The property owners
completed a contract for the
required facility to be built
Inside...
July 2017 is a very special
month for Sisters’ new city
manager, Brant Kucera.
Kucera is expected to take
over the reins from interim
City Manager Rick Allen
sometime in July. Even more
memorable will be his mar-
riage on July 1 to his fiancé,
Sandy Jacobs. Kucera and
Jacobs met last July when
they both happened to be at
the same beach, and a year
later they are getting married.
Kucera and Jacobs were in
town last Saturday to begin
house-hunting. Everything
See KUCERA on page 24
Council OKs amended
annexation agreement
By Sue Stafford
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and managed by Mark Adolf
and his Pinnacle Alliance
Group out of Yakima.
After multiple failed
attempts by Adolf to secure
financing, the MMV group
did not renew his contract.
They instead contracted with
a Bend developer who was
ready to build the assisted-
living facility.
What followed was a
battle by Adolf to appar-
ently derail the development
of MMV by filing land-use
appeals designed to stall the
senior-living facility, and
thus the entire MMV devel-
opment. Adolf eventually
sued the Bend developer,
claiming he used Pinnacle’s
plans for the assisted-living
See ANNEXATION on page 26
Sisters honors the fallen
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
It’s a long-standing Sisters
tradition: Each Memorial
Day, the community gathers
at the Village Green for a sol-
emn remembrance of those
who have fallen in America’s
wars. The observance is orga-
nized by Sisters’ active veter-
ans organizations and brings
together a Redmond Junior
Marine ROTC color guard,
an honor guard of Sisters
veterans, and distinguished
guests.
Retired Air Force
Brigadier General Martha
Meeker was this year’s key-
note speaker. General Meeker
recounted supervising the
return of the remains of a
fallen U.S. Army private who
had been killed in an IED
attack. She was riding with
the family in a procession
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Brigadier General Martha Meeker (Retired) spoke of the meaning of
Memorial Day.
that exited the gates of an
Air Force base and pro-
ceeded down a boulevard
lined a long mile with people
who had come to pay their
respects.
“The family will never
forget that,” Meeker said.
“People coming out to show
that the sacrifice of their son
really did mean something. I
was so proud of the American
spirit in that moment.”
That, the general
explained, is why Memorial
Day observance are so
See MEMORIAL DAY on page 16
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Business Roundup ............. 6 Announcements ................12 Bunkhouse Chronicle .......21 Classifieds .................. 27-29
Meetings ........................... 3 Sisters Salutes .................. 6 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Crossword ....................... 26 Real Estate .................29-32