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Sisters School District Superintendent Curt Scholl confirmed Thursday that a Sisters High School employee had been placed on leave from the district, but he was not able to comment further
Erik Fernandez Originally published on July 2, 2021 2:27 pm More trees appear to be dead or dying along Highways 20 and 126 near Sisters, just a few years after a massive die-off tied to a now-restricted herbicide. The U.S. Forest Service in 2019 cut about 2,100 trees — most of them ponderosa pines — along Highway 20 in Jefferson County after they were accidentally poisoned and killed by the herbicide Perspective. A contractor for the Oregon Department of Transportation had sprayed weeds near the highway to mitigate wildfire risk. That herbicide found its way to the tree roots, causi...