News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Dirt. There’s something about it. As kids, we ‘’experience” it. We dig in it, sniff it and taste it. We add water to make mud-pies, throw it and watch it splatter, hop in it and kick it and watch it blow away in the wind. Together we build and insulate our forts with it, build jumps for our bikes out of it, and then we grow up and dirt seems to lose its wonder. At some point, it’s just “dirty” and downright filthy. I’m constantly sweeping it out of my house, out of my car,... Full story
Editor’s note: Becky Aylor is leaving the Sisters School District to accept a temporary position at Mountain View High School as Dean of Students. For me, I’ve said more goodbyes this last month than I’d care to admit. I thought I’d always be an Outlaw. I bleed black. It’s been an amazing ride. My Leadership squad did our “last” back-to-school assembly, our “last” Veterans Celebration, I went on my “last” field trip, read my “last” essay, filmed my “last” Outlaw News, retur... Full story
The Sisters Park & Recreation tax district turns 21 next year. We are eight long-time Sisters Country residents who helped raise the Sisters Park & Recreation District since its infancy. As SPRD reaches adulthood, so to speak, we believe it is time for the taxpayers of Sisters Country to recognize that SPRD has grown into a mature, multi-purpose organization by supporting Measure 9-120, the local option tax measure on the May ballot. Many of us were involved in the creation of SPRD's predecessor, SOAR, which provided... Full story
It was an October Nugget Newspaper ad, 1995. My son, Sebastian, was almost 2 and it was time for me to get a part-time job. I went to one interview and was hired on the spot by John Keenan, a joint owner of The Historic Hotel Sisters Restaurant. I was a waitress in high school, now, six years later I had a college degree and several years experience working with abused and/or delinquent kids. I had most recently left a job as a school administrator in So. Cal. Keenan informed me that waitresses were called "servers" now and... Full story
