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  Sisters woman confronts ‘housing insecurity’

  Mandee Seeley, Sisters resident who has “lived experience” of housing insecurity, decided to take the problem head on. While researching the broad topic of homelessness online, she came ac
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  Winter is coming: Tame or tumultuous?

  This is the time of the year when key aspects of the atmosphere and ocean begin to emerge that will drive weather patterns in the coming weeks and months. Soon seasonal forecasters will begin evaluati
• Sisters man arrested after hemp farm theft

  Sheriff’s deputies arrested Noah Kirshner, 20, of Sisters in connection with the theft of industrial hemp from a farm east of town. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office reports that on Oc

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  Seed to Table expands reach around Sisters

  “This is my first field trip ever!” exclaimed a second-grade student from K-8 Warm Springs Academy as he bounced off the bus onto Seed to Table’s education farm. The enthusiasm echoe
• Attendance and health focus for school board

  Concerns about the health of the Sisters High School health program, about attendance and about student vaping occupied the Sisters School Board at their monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 2. The m
• School district to investigate coaching claim

  The Sisters School Board agreed Wednesday, October 2 to investigate concerns of several Sisters parents regarding coaching in the Sisters High School girls basketball program. The investigation will b

• Can’t find a place to rent… help! — The Property Guy

  Dear Property Guy: I’m trying to move to Sisters. I just need a little apartment for me and my dog. Can you help me find anything? I need to be under a thousand. — Ashland Dear Ashland:
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  Painted Lady Antiques open in Sisters

  Marla and Kent Stevens opened Painted Lady Antiques this summer with a firm goal: to be an uncluttered, reasonably priced shop that people want to return to again and again. “We didn’t wa
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  Farmers market to close out season

  Music, bellydance, and beekeeping will enliven this Sunday’s closing-day celebration at Sisters Farmers Market. Organizers are inviting the community to “Come bee happy with us!” at

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  Supporters celebrate youth program

  Stories of Change brought Native American artist and performer Jefferson Green to the shores of Blue Lake this weekend. The annual fundraising event for Caldera presents storytelling, documentary film
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  Molly Gloss will share new work at book festival

  Fourth-generation Oregon author Molly Gloss will be talking about her latest book, “Unforeseen: Stories” (2019), her first retrospective of short stories as well as two new stories, on Sat
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  Sisters festival brings renowned author

  David Joy writes from the beauty and darkness of his home country in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. His “Appalachian noir” novels — “Where All Light Tends

• Cross-country girls race at Oxford

  It’s not every week a team gets to race against the No. 1-ranked team in the United States, but that is where Sisters Outlaws’s girls cross-country team found themselves, toeing the line a
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  Boys cross-country fourth at Oxford

  Racing locally for the first and only time this season, the Outlaws boys cross-country team placed fourth as a team at the Oxford Classic held in Bend at Drake Park on Friday, October 4. The Outlaws c
• Soccer teams drop games on the road

  The boys and girls soccer squads both lost their games at Newport on Friday, October 4 — the boys a 2-1 loss and the girls a 1-0 loss. Sisters’ boys started their game a bit sluggish, due

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  Sisters woman helps people build ‘rock solid’ marriages

  Our marriages are perhaps the most important relationships in our lives — yet we often neglect them and suddenly find that we are in trouble. Norene Gonsiewski of Sisters has, in partnership wit
• Best time to work out? The secret revealed...

  Morning vs. evening workout: Lore of better fat burning, performance, or energy levels create an endless debate over the best time to get that workout in. Who or what to believe gets confusing. There
• Fresh Food Farmacy program changes lives

  The limitations to having extremely high blood pressure were crippling for local Sisters resident Brian (name changed for anonymity). Having to take six medications a day had become normal. Brian&rsqu

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