| Current News | | Sisters man in early morning crash | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | A 21-year-old Sisters man was taken to the hospital after crashing into a tree on Highway 126 near Willow Lane in the early hours of November 30. | | Lost greyhound saved by community | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | An epic effort ended happily last month with the rescue of a greyhound dog that was lost in Sisters for days. | | Vision team produces draft of plan | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | Sisters City Council reviewed the draft of the Sisters Vision Action Plan as presented at their November 28 workshop by NXT Consultants Steven Ames and Ruth Williamson, with assistance from the four Vision Action Team (VAT) leaders. | | Council adopts short-term rental ordinances
| | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | No City Council minds were changed over the two weeks since the first reading of the proposed ordinances dealing with short-term rentals in Sisters. | |
| Business | | Tour reveals senior living facility | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | The place to be last Sunday afternoon in Sisters was on the Hard Hat Tour at The Lodge in Sisters. More than 400 people came through the doors to tour the senior living facility currently under construction next to the post office. | | Shopping local works for Sisters folks | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | Let's face it, Christmas shopping can be a pain. Fighting traffic, looking for parking - it's enough to drive a person online. | | Hoodoo Ski Area to open 2018-19 season this Friday | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | Hoodoo Ski Area will open its slopes for the 2018-19 season this Friday, December 7. The Manzanita, Ed, and Easy Rider lifts will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday with limited grooming but plenty of surface powder for skiing and riding. | | Hayden Homes provides $10K for food program | | Tuesday, October 16, 2018 | | The Sisters Kiwanis coffers were enriched at last week's meeting when Hayden Homes Vice President of Community Engagement Deborah Flagan presented a check for $10,000 to Kiwanis for their Christmas Food Program. | |
| Arts & Entertainment | | Warfighter Outfitters benefit at Cork Cellars | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | Jeannie Gilgenberg Buck's most recent TV project was an emotionally moving experience for her - so much so that she's carrying it forward to assist the locally operated veterans charity Warfighter Outfitters. | | A very canine Christmas
| | Thursday, December 6, 2018 | | Last Saturday Sisters was brimming with holiday merriment - including the four-legged kind. | | Commentary...
Art and individual identity | | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | | Erin Thompson serves as an art professor at John Jay College, City University of New York. She has written that for most art buyers "... art is a means to create and strengthen social bonds, and a way for collectors to communicate information about themselves and the world within these networks ... art can send a message about who the collector really is - or at least who the person sees themself as being." | | Three printmakers show work at Sisters Library | | Tuesday, November 6, 2018 | | This month, prints made by three artists, each using different processes, are hanging in the Sisters Library. | |
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| Education | | Schools | | ASPIRE helps students plan for future | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | For many of us, fall means experiencing cool, crisp mornings, raking leaves, and preparing for the coming holidays. However, for high school seniors (and their parents), fall can inspire feelings of uncertainty and apprehension as students start feeling the crush of writing college application essays, scheduling SAT tests, investigating post-high-school possibilities, and figuring out a way to pay for it all. | | First ever dinosaur fossil discovered in Oregon | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | The fossilized toe bone of a dinosaur has been discovered among a bunch of ammonite fossils over near Mitchell. | | Birders sought for raptor survey | | Tuesday, November 6, 2018 | | If you've wanted to get to know our Northwest raptors better, now's your chance. The East Cascade Audubon Society's Winter Raptor Survey Project is now underway. Jeff Fleischer, who is spearheading the 15th season of surveys under the auspices of Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA), says this is the first time that more than 300 survey routes will be in play. | | Stars over Sisters | | Tuesday, November 6, 2018 | | As 2018 advances into the second-to-last month of the year, the sky orients itself in new ways, bringing with it spectacular starry treats. There are new things to see and discover in our dark, infinite sky. | |
| Sports & Recreation | | Outlaws split pre-season basketball games | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | The Outlaws fell 43-46 to the Crook County (CC) Cowboys at home on Friday, November 30. Sisters trailed the entire way, but clawed their way back to make it a tight fourth quarter. A day later, the Outlaws bounced back with an impressive 64-46 win over Madras. | | Wrestlers compete in season opener | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | | Sisters wrestlers traveled to Cascade on December 1 and competed in the Perry Burlison Tournament, where 27 teams were in attendance. The tourney offers a JV tournament and now also includes a tournament for the girls. | | Lady Outlaws win pre-season opener | | Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | The Lady Outlaws came out strong and defeated Crook County 38-22 in their pre-season opener at home on Friday, December 1.
Sisters jumped out quick offensively and held a 14-6 lead at the close of the first quarter; at the half they were up 22-14. The Outlaws' defense was on-point in the second half, limiting the Cowgirls to just eight points to ensure the win. | | Sixteen players turn out for girls basketball | | Tuesday, November 20, 2018 | | The Lady Outlaws return 10 experienced players to the program, and will add depth with six new additions. | |
| Health | | No, sitting is not the same as smoking | | Tuesday, November 20, 2018 | | Recently, there has been a lot of attention grabbing headlines and news reports depicting sitting as a disease of our society, arguing that sitting poses the same life expectancy detriment as smoking. While such hype serves its purpose as an attention-grabber, it ought to be considered fake news. | | Healthy kitchen essentials | | Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | | Eating well requires some assembly, but it need not be tedious or frustrating. A savvy kitchen helps create easy and delicious healthy meals, thanks to time-saving tools and techniques. | | The gift of
letting go - moving toward simplicity | | Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | | The intersection between our emotional state and physical surroundings is clear. With a society that thrives on consumerism and being inundated with digital information (i.e. my personal inbox with about 3,000 emails), we can frequently find ourselves feeling overwhelmed, distracted, and overstimulated. | | Healthy comfort foods for fall | | Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | | What comfort foods do you turn to when you're curled up on the couch on a cold evening? | |
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