News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The search is on to find a new school superintendent for Sisters -- and the Sisters School Board is taking a new approach. "We decided to use a professional consulting firm this time," board chair Glen Lasken told The Nugget. Cascade Consulting Group, a specialist executive search service, will conduct the search instead of the board handling that duty as it has in the past with assistance from the Oregon School Boards Association. The board has had a streak of bad luck in filling the superintendent's post after the... Full story
Sisters area residents opened their hearts -- and their wallets -- to support the parent education program Together for Children (TFC) at a fund-raising auction on Friday, April 23. Together for Children provides parent education services and parent-child interactive activities. Susan Robinson, TFC board member, noted that "those of us with children know that parenting is the toughtest job there is -- and there's no instruction book." TFC helps provide that "instruction book." The program operates under the auspices of the... Full story
The SOAR facility near Sisters High School was built on grant funds and donations. No tax dollars were used. photo by Jim Cornelius SOAR (Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation) moved into a new facility this year, adjacent to the new high school. Since the move, the organization has received many queries and some complaints based on the misconception that the facility was built with tax dollars. Not a dime of tax money was spent on SOAR's facility, according to the organization's director Tom Coffield. "One... Full story
Earl Armbruster, Rob Kurtz and Steve Summerfield, off to a Ducks game. Going to college football was a favorite pursuit of these avid fans. photo provided Rob Kurtz was the kind of teacher who changed lives, the kind of teacher students remember long after they have left his classroom and moved on. The impact that Rob Kurtz had on students in Sisters was evident by the number of former students who packed the Sisters High School auditorium on Tuesday, April 13, to remember the 54-year-old teacher who died the previous Monday... Full story
