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Vol. XLIII No. 28
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News and
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Sisters, Oregon
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
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Optimism...
Outlaws are getting some conditioning in anticipation of a football season this fall. It remains unclear how sports
and other aspects of school will be handled as the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt life in Sisters Country.
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Lt. Bailey takes helm at Sisters seeks to o manage
Sisters sheriff’s office mask mandate
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
The new five-year
law enforcement contract
between the City of Sisters
and the Deschutes County
Sheriff 9s Office (DCSO)
took effect on July 1. Current
Public Information Officer
(PIO) for the DCSO, William
Bailey, was just promoted
from the rank of sergeant to
lieutenant and has assumed a
six-month assignment as the
interim lieutenant in charge
of the Sisters office. He will
be working with DCSO and
City Manager Cory Misley to
get the substation remodeled
and running at full speed.
Lt. Bailey, a native
Oregonian who grew up on
the coast in Garibaldi, has
been a member of the DCSO
for 20 years, two as a reserve
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
Last week,
Governor Kate Brown
issued a statewide mandate
requiring Oregonians to wear
face coverings in indoor pub-
lic spaces, effective July 1.
The guidance applies to busi-
nesses and members of the
public visiting indoor public
spaces.
The mandate came as
See LT. BAILEY on page 39
By Jim Anderson
Correspondent
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A lone fawn in a person9s
backyard seems to indicate
Jefferson
County
Sheriff 9s Office deputies
and U.S. Forest Service Law
Enforcement are investigat-
ing an incident that occurred
on Friday, July 3, on a trail at
Suttle Lake.
Jefferson County Sheriff
Jim Adkins told The Nugget
See WILDLIFE on page 38
See ASSAULT on page 39
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Mule deer fawns are all over Sisters these days. Leave them alone, even if
you think they’ve been “abandoned.”
to leave her fawn in some
degree of hiding when she
decides to go searching for
food
See MASKS on page 37
Deputies
investigate
assault
on trail at
Suttle Lake
Leave wildlife babies alone
Every spring, articles in
The Nugget again remind
people to leave baby wild-
life alone. The Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife (ODFW) is preach-
ing the same message, espe-
cially regarding mule deer.
The City of Sisters passed
an ordinance against feed-
ing mule deer in hopes of
thinning out their number
in town. Nevertheless, deer
still live in the city and they
began dropping fawns about
a month or more ago, which
are now very visible as they
follow mom around. It is
common practice for a doe
cases of
COVID-19 have
been trending upward. Daily
cases have been consistently
hitting all-time highs state-
wide, and percentages of pos-
itive readings have increased
along with increased testing.
While Oregon still has a low
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