News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Just a hop, skip and a jump from the Sisters Post Office, New York West Hair Designs is now open for business. In opening the new salon, New York native Bernice Rossana is finally realizing her dream to work in Sisters - the town she chose to live in 20 years ago. "I've been looking for a great location to own and operate a small, personalized salon," she said. Bernice specializes in creating hairstyles that combine a natural look with a European flair, country with... Full story
The Sisters School District has one more reason to take pride in its arts program: Carolyn Platt has been selected to receive the Middle School Art Educator of the Year award by the Oregon Arts Education Association (OAEA). Platt, in her fifth year as art and drama teacher at Sisters Middle School, will be presented with the award at OAEA's October conference at the Portland Art Museum. "I'm honored that I was even considered to be in their company," Platt said of the OAEA, a... Full story
Emma Gerhart has only one complaint: "I'm deaf in one ear and can't hear out of the other," she quipped to family and friends who gathered in Sisters last week to mark her 105th birthday. That cunning wit, along with personal fortitude, appears to have contributed to Gerhart's remarkable longevity. Or perhaps credit should go to her avant-garde lifestyle; she has been a vegetarian since the age of 30, supplementing with vitamins and minerals decades before it was fashionable.... Full story
"Grease" is the word this week, as Sisters High School's vibrant theater arts department will be transporting audiences to the fictional Rydell High, circa 1959, in a four-day run of the popular musical. Months in the making, "Grease" follows last fall's wildly successful production of "Fiddler on the Roof," and it will give dozens of student performers the chance to shine once again under the direction of Michelle According to Summers, this cast is deep in talent. Younger... Full story
On stage at Disneyland's Carnation Theater earlier this month, the 10 members of Sisters High School's Vocal Jazz Ensemble gave their strongest performance to date - but not before weathering some trying setbacks. It was the second year in a row that the SHS Jazz Choir, under the direction of Michelle Summers, has received this highly coveted invitation. The Disney program also afforded the students the opportunity to train and record in a professional studio. Beth Eckstine, H... Full story
Sisters Middle School students have something to say, and they are learning new ways to say it. Their thoughtfully crafted words were given wings on Tuesday, May 4, in a special performance that followed a 10-day creative writing workshop sponsored by Bend non-profit, The Nature of Words (NOW). Thirty-two students from Kit Stafford's Americana Project classes presented poems and short stories mined from their own imaginations to an audience of NOW representatives and attentive fifth grade students in an event called Words... Full story
On Monday, April 26, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the State Capitol to honor James "Mike" Yankey, 60, of Sisters who lost his life while working for the Oregon Department of Transportation. Yankey's daughter, Jessica Yankey, attended the ceremony in front of the transportation building in Salem, along with relatives of two other ODOT employees who died in the line of duty within the past year. Yankey was killed in an accident on November 30 while repairing a snowplow at... Full story
