• Motorcyclist killed in Highway 20 crash

  A motorcyclist was killed in a collision on Highway 20 last Wednesday, in a wreck that blocked the highway in both directions. Oregon State Police reported that OSP Troopers and emergency personnel re
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  Lt. Bailey takes helm at Sisters sheriff’s office

  The new five-year law enforcement contract between the City of Sisters and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) took effect on July 1. Current Public Information Officer (PIO) for the DC
• Sisters seeks to manage mask mandate

  Last week, Governor Kate Brown issued a statewide mandate requiring Oregonians to wear face coverings in indoor public spaces, effective July 1. The guidance applies to businesses and members of the p

• Sisters Folk Festival announces scholarships

  Sisters Folk Festival’s Americana Project and the Graduate Research Organization (GRO) have announced the recipients of their 2020 scholarship awards. Sisters Folk Festival awarded a total of $4
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  Quilters help provide scholarships for high school students

  Since 2007, quilters who participate in the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show have turned their talents to helping others. The Wish Upon A Card Fundraiser & Fabric Challenge started as a partnership with
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  Cundiff closes out school career

  Shirleen Cundiff rolled into Sisters in 1998 with her two daughters, Jamie and Kelly, the day before school started, fulfilling a dream she and her husband, Gary, had kept for many years of residing i

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  Hauling grass and taking names

  Local Sisters’ business T&M?Hauling started quite by accident when co-owner Thys (rhymes with peace) Kuitert was attending a residents meeting in Tollgate early this year. He clearly heard t
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  An innovator in quilting and business

  Entrepreneur Jean Wells Keenan has been an innovator in the quilting world for over four decades. Creating a business out of her passion, Keenan then took her talents as a teacher, artist, author, and
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  Becoming a Friend of the Show

  To provide free admission to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, SOQS organizers depend on business sponsors, quilt sales, donations and their membership, Friends of the Show. SOQS Executive Director Dawn

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  Sisters Folk Festival to host August 1 concert

  Sisters Folk Festival, known for its annual Americana music festival and community arts education and engagement, has announced it will produce a socially-distanced concert on Saturday, August 1 with
• Museum’s signature fundraiser goes virtual

  The High Desert Museum’s signature fundraiser, High Desert Rendezvous, returns on Saturday, August 29, at 6:30 p.m. The lively evening this year will take place in the virtual world. This marks
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  SOQS founder is 45th anniversary featured artist

  Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS), the world’s largest outdoor quilt show in the world will be reinvented into a virtual experience in light of the COVID-19 restrictions. There will also be fibe

• Forest Service seeks to protect caves

  On the Deschutes National Forest there are approximately 700 known caves, which are often abused by forest users, including vandalism, lighting fires, playing music, excavating and removing geologic a
• Restrictions in place on local forests

  Following a warm and dry spring, drought is emerging and expanding across much of the west. Central Oregon is expected to see warmer- and-drier-than-average conditions this summer. At the same time, a
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  Caught in an avalanche

  In the early morning hours of May 23, Danielle Rudinsky and Shelby Lowman set out to climb the southwest aspect of Mt. Hood. Rudinsky and Lowman started up a route unpopulated by other climbers and wh

• Preparing for wildfire season

  Nobody wants to think about it much, but the advent of beautiful, sunny, hot weather also marks the arrival of wildfire season in Sisters Country. Deschutes County Health Services encourages residents
• Stabilization Center opens doors in Bend

  The Deschutes County Stabilization Center is now open and serving children and adults who are in need of short-term, mental-health crisis assessment and stabilization. The Stabilization Center, locate
• Top health official: No virus surge since state reopening

  PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon hasn’t seen a coronavirus resurgence in the weeks since most counties began to slowly reopen businesses, the state’s top health official said Wednesday, June 3

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