News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The Outlaws boys took second overall, and Bela Chladek notched first place in a ski race at Mount Hood Meadows last weekend. The Outlaw ski team traveled to Mount Hood Meadows on Saturday, January 7, to kick off the ski racing season at the annual Kelsey’s Race. The Kelsey’s Race is the largest high school ski race in the nation, with more than 500 racers registered for the event this year. Sisters boys team took second place in the event with a combined team time of 1:12.14,... Full story
The Outlaws wrestling team traveled west Saturday, January 7 for the 19-team “King of the Hill” tournament hosted by the Billies of Pleasant Hill. The event gave the Sisters squad a look at some of the competition from the Willamette Valley after competing mostly against Central and Eastern Oregon teams. Schools large and small took part in the tournament. Senior Ben Cooper got his first championship of the season after being the runner-up in all the previous tournaments of the season, raising his record to 21-4. After win... Full story
OK, I realize it’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day this month, and I’m not making light of his “I Have a Dream” speech. In fact, I’m a great admirer. But I had a dream—the kind of dream you have while sleeping. In this admittedly strange dream, I was reluctantly observing a political convention when suddenly the man with the microphone called me up to make a speech. Totally shocked and unprepared — I had no speech! But they forced me to the podium, and to my surprise I made a full-blown dramatic speech with hand gestur... Full story
The Lady Outlaws hoopsters fell 36-29 at Elmira on Tuesday, January 3, in their first game of league play, but at home three days later they crushed Siuslaw 41-9. In Tuesday’s road match-up against the Falcons, the Outlaws only scored four points in the first half; a single free-throw from Ashlynn Moffat in the first quarter and a long ball from Ellie Mayes in the second period. The Falcons played a 2-3 zone and Sisters struggled to find open shots. At the half the Outlaws t... Full story
Some of Oregon’s most exciting artists and scholars will be exploring the intersection of art, food, and agriculture in the 2023 Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture (PMRCAA) arts residency program. Through a juried application process, 24 artists, culture bearers, scientists, scholars, and researchers from around the United States have been selected for either one-month or two-week stays at PMRCAA in Sisters, from March through November. The PMRCAA offers d... Full story
Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) deputies have arrested a driver who hit a pedestrian near Sno-Cap on Sunday, December 8. The sheriff’s office reports that DCSO was dispatched at approximately 1 p.m. to a report of a hit-and-run crash involving a pedestrian. Initial information received was that a maroon Chevrolet Tahoe or similar vehicle struck a pedestrian standing at a parked vehicle in the 300 block of North Pine Street. The suspect vehicle continued north on North Pine Street, and eventually turned east on Main A... Full story
