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The intersection between self-care and customer satisfaction

The towns of Sisters and Silverton, Oregon in which I practice rely heavily on tourism, their quaintness, and the promise to deliver the small-town experience so many seek out.

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Habitat Thrift Store to host grand opening

A grand opening celebration is scheduled at Sisters Habitat for Humanity’s new Thrift Store at 211 E. Cascade Ave., for Saturday, April 27.

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Rethink house share plan

Dear Property Guy:

I have a house by the OSU Bend campus that rents for $2,000 a month.

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New coffee house offers a place to slow down

In our culture, having coffee has come to be more about grabbing a 16-ounce-whatever in a paper cup to go.

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Well-known chef takes helm at local restaurant

Chops Bistro owner Tracy Syanovitz just brought a new chef on board with over 30 years’ experience working in the food-service industry.

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Entering the Relaxation Room

Like everyone else here in Sisters, I have to say that I will be ecstatic when I see daffodil clusters instead of mountains of snow in my yard.

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First Story provides no-interest loans

At the end of 2018, two decades after it began, First Story has built 77 grant homes and provided $1.3 million in charitable donations.

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Homeowners sue over donation fee

The homeowners in Village at Cold Spring have filed a lawsuit against First Story, alleging that the Covenant for Community Charitable Fee, which is attached to their homes’ titles, is illegal and should be rescinded. Their main objection is to the involuntary nature of the charitable contribution.

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Planning commission approves Hayden plan

With a vote of six ayes and Commissioner Jack Nagel the sole nay vote, the Sisters Planning Commission approved Hayden Homes’ Master Plan Development for McKenzie Meadows Village, the Comprehensive Plan Map and Zoning Map Amendment, a Tentative Subdivision, and Development Agreement, accepting all of the City staff recommendations, with one small change of wording.

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Hotel and taproom planned for Ski Inn

If permits are issued by mid-summer, construction on the new Ski Inn hotel and tap room will begin soon after. According to the projected timeline, the Ski Inn could be operational by fall 2020.

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Decades of keeping Sisters covered

It seems ironic 20 years down the road, but when Tammy Taylor first came to Sisters with her husband Jeff in 1996, she wanted no part of working for an independent insurance agency.

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Hayden Homes Master Plan on docket

Sisters planning commissioners will hear a proposal for nearly 200 new houses in town this week.

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Spa offers a Graceful Touch in Sisters

Lie back and relax. Feel gentle hands massage pressure points in your tired feet, tight shoulders and neck. A heated bed, soft music and soothing scenes on the walls all contribute to an hour of worry-free pampering in the heart of Sisters. And that's just the beginning.

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The people behind The Nugget... T. Lee Brown

Tiffany Lee Brown -known to most as "T" - brings a varied background and a deep toolbox of talents to her work as a freelancer with The Nugget Newspaper.

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Suttle Lodge is a Sisters getaway

People all across the Pacific Northwest think of The Suttle Lodge as a summertime place, a place of family vacations at the lake, of canoes and kayaks and waterskis, of hikes along the trail and old-fashioned dinners at The Boathouse.

And it is all of these things.

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The Good Day Café opens in Sisters

The Good Day Café adjacent to Bedouin, at 143 E. Hood Ave. in Sisters, is open for business. Last May, when Harmony Thomas bought the adjacent women's boutique called Bedouin from Janet Brockway, it presented an opportunity for her husband Brian to return to his roots as a chef. The café is now open for light breakfasts and lunch five days a week, Tuesdays through Saturdays.

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Sisters business opts out of Big Data with no regrets

The new owner of a venerable Sisters retail establishment has joined a hot new trend. Is it a brilliant new technology, disrupting the bookselling business?

On the contrary. Lane Jacobson, owner of Paulina Springs Books since November 1, used the good old-fashioned medium of the email newsletter to announce:

"Given the recent and continuing revelations about Facebook's misuse of and seeming disregard for the privacy of its users and their data, I have elected to halt any further Paulina Springs Books activity on Facebook and Instagram (owned by Facebook). We take the privacy of our customers very seriously, and we expect the same from organizations we partner with and platforms that we use."

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Step & Spine to open clinic at Eagle Crest

From a start in a 200-square-foot storage room at Cascade Fitness, Step & Spine Physical Therapy has grown to include a flagship clinic in Sisters, a large facility in Redmond, and a clinic in Bend. Now, the Sisters-based physical therapy clinic is set to open a facility at 7555 Falcon Crest Dr. in Eagle Crest resort between Sisters and Redmond.

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Therapeutic Associates marks 25 years in Sisters

When Therapeutic Associates opened its doors in Sisters a quarter-century ago, Sisters was a smaller, quieter place.

The practice was located in a house on Adams Avenue that now is home to a daycare facility.

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More development on drawing board in Sisters

The remaining undeveloped 7.48 acres in the Three Winds Shopping Center - behind Bi-Mart, Takoda's, and Dairy Queen - are currently in the design phase for a master plan that would include commercial and multi-family lots along with a single formula food lot.

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