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Wear your mask

Sisters, like the rest of Oregon, is under a mandate for everyone to wear a face covering in indoor public spaces, like the bank or the grocery store.

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Living up to what we put on paper

No words committed to paper have ever had greater impact than those we celebrate this Saturday, on Independence Day:

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We’re all on edge

Here at the office of The Nugget — your hometown newspaper — we consider ourselves among the fortunate ones.

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City’s role to grow as Sisters recovers

Sisters’ city government will have a bigger and bigger role to play as Sisters moves from hunkering down and trying to weather the COVID-19 storm toward navigating the changed landscape the storm has left behind.

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Ramp up COVID-19 testing

Testing is the key to getting America working and living again in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hats off to Sisters Rodeo

The Sisters Rodeo Board of Directors had to make a wrenching decision last week to cancel this year’s event, which would have been the 80th Sisters Rodeo.

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Welcome to the new abnormal

A friend and colleague pointed out that ”Social Distancing” is much more difficult for extroverts than introverts. Makes sense. Sisters is a community of huggers.

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Letters to the Editor…

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Stealthy, insidious virus stokes anxieties

When an invisible, stealthy enemy invades, it’s only natural to want to know if there is danger close. Several people have contacted The Nugget asking whether there are confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sisters.

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Shoulder to shoulder, six feet apart

The battle against the spread of the COVID-19 virus is testing Sisters’ resilience as nothing has before. Wildfire, hard winters, road closures, housing crises — we’ve weathered them all, and yet none of them posed the long-term challenges that the events of Spring 2020 present.

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A time to pull together

Just as a wildfire can create its own wind, whipping up a firestorm of destruction, the public health crisis surrounding the COVID-19 virus has the potential to have far-reaching and long-lasting effects on the Sisters community.

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A time to pull together

Just as a wildfire can create its own wind, whipping up a firestorm of destruction, the public health crisis surrounding the COVID-19 virus has the potential to have far-reaching and long-lasting effects on the Sisters community.

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A nation of laws

The Founders of this nation feared and detested one thing above all others: arbitrary power.

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Ain’t got that swing

Travel time on the road to a newspaper conference last week gave me more leisure than usual to run down the warren of rabbit holes that is political journalism c. 2020.

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The antidote to cynicism

It’s enough to make the most ardent patriot a cynic. Our national politics are in a constant, chaotic roil and rank hypocrisy and double standards are the coin of the realm.

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Free speech and civility

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...

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Remembering 9/11 — and 9/12

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are fading into history, though the echoes of that terrible day continue to reverberate through our lives.

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Don’t give a pass to false narratives

Two presidential candidates did a very bad thing last weekend:

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Domestic terrorism

Anyone who attends a music festival in Sisters, or goes shopping in a big-box store in Bend, or maybe goes out for an evening downtown might pause in the wake of the past week’s events and consider that they might just be a target.

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The blast crater of Watergate

The House Judiciary Committee indulged in some bizarre (and lame) theatrics in bringing Watergate co-conspirator-turned-star-witness John Dean to “testify” on the “historical context” of the Mueller Report earlier this month.

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