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
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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.
<This sale moves us for-
ward toward our goal of
providing better services
for visitors and improving
employee safety while reduc-
ing our operating costs,= said
John Allen, forest supervisor,
Deschutes National Forest.
See LAND SALE on page 38
Under a cloudless blue
sky and tender spring sun, 10
middle school leadership stu-
dents, all seventh-grade girls,
put their backs into planting
four deciduous trees in Fir
Street Park in celebration of
Arbor Day on April 26.
Accompanied by leader-
ship teacher Becky Aylor, the
girls walked from the middle
school to the park and back.
Sisters Mayor Chuck Ryan
greeted them and read the
Arbor Day proclamation prior
to the girls picking up their
shovels and getting to work.
Four trees from the City9s
own nursery were chosen to
replace a pine tree that had
to be removed. As the trees
grow, they will provide a bit
of shade and some screening
PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD
Sisters Middle School students celebrated the planting of four deciduous
trees in town, assisted by the City of Sisters Public Works Department.
of the alley that runs between
the park and the Sinclair gas
station.
After digging the holes,
with the help of public works
staff the girls planted two
crabapple trees, one linden
tree, and one serviceberry.
The trees will provide
springtime blossoms, and
leaves that will provide some
fall color.
See ARBOR DAY on page 19
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ................12 Obituaries ....................... 16 Mother’s Day Gifts ...... 26-27 Classifieds ..................34-36
Meetings ........................... 3 Entertainment ..................13 Home & Garden ............17-24 Crossword ....................... 33 Real Estate ................. 37-40