Poison bait traps are trouble waiting to happen page 20 Habitat breaks ground on two homes page 9 Sisters hosts endurance boot camp page 25 The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 18 P OSTAL CUSTOMER News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon www.NuggetNews.com PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Hwy. 20 logging operation gets underway Four vie for two seats on Sisters School Board By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief The roar of chainsaws split the chilly morning air in Sisters on Monday, April 29, as the long-awaited Highway 20 hazard tree logging proj- ect got underway. Towering ponderosa pines, brown and brittle, wavered then came crashing to the ground along the roadway, one after another after another. The project, expected to be completed May 22, will ultimately remove 2,100 trees 4 mostly ponderosa pines 4 that were killed due to the application of an herbicide along the highway. Sisters Ranger District Project Manager Steve Orange described some chal- lenges as loggers started work close to the edge of Sisters. There was a high concentra- tion of trees to be cut, and traffic control managers tried By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief Four candidates are con- tending for the two open seats on the Sisters School Board. Current board members Stephen King and Jeff Smith are facing off in a contest for Position 3, while former board member Don Hedrick and local resident and volun- teer Mandee Seeley are run- ning for Position 4. In the Position 3 race, King left his incumbent posi- tion to run against Smith. King told The Nugget that he PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK See TREES on page 32 The falling of 2,100 trees is underway on the Highway 20 corridor. Work is expected to be completed by May 22. See CANDIDATES on page 37 Planting for the future in Sisters Forest Service sells 18-acre parcel in Sisters By Sue Stafford Correspondent An 18.11-acre parcel of Forest Service land located at Highway and West Barclay Drive in Sisters has been sold. Compass Commercial Real Estate Services announced the sale on Monday, April 29. Brokers Robert Raimondi, CCIM and Graham Dent rep- resented the Forest Service, and principal broker Bruce Churchill represented the buyer, Three Sisters Holdings, LLC in the trans- action valued at $1.5 million. The property is one of three parcels of the Forest Service9s approximately 80-acre administrative site, located along Pine Street in Sisters. The two remaining Inside... parcels consist of 14.61 and 47.06 acres, and those par- cels remain available for sale. The Forest Service will use the funding from this sale and the sale of the other two parcels to build more accessible and energy-effi- cient facilities. The agency has long had plans to build a new headquarters facility in Sisters.