News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Stewart was born April 25, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, and after a life well lived, passed away December 29, 2021 in Bend, at the age of 86. Stewart was raised in Southern California by his parents, Louis and Fanny Weitzman. This is where his lifelong love of education, hard work, and cars started. In 1953 he was accepted to Stanford University and graduated with a degree in political science in 1957. At Stanford, he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. After... Full story
Under a proposal by Rotary Club of Sisters, the City would have first dibs on five “Little Libraries” that Rotary will build, stock, and maintain at its sole expense. These are the small wood- and-glass variety like the one shown here located in the Coyote Springs subdivision.The name “Little Libraries” is not just a generic description of the structures, which will each hold about 100 books. It is the moniker of Little Free Library, a nonprofit started and headqua... Full story
Honey Don’t has released their third full-length album, titled “Threadbare.” Honey Don’t was created by husband-and-wife duo Bill and Shelly Powers in 2006 while they lived in the small town of Paonia, Colorado. Powers and his wife were in a band in Colorado from 2001 until 2010 called Sweet Sunny South, before branching out on their own to form Honey Don’t, to do more of the types of tunes they desired. Powers sings and plays guitar, and Shelly plays bass. “The vibe of what w... Full story
The Oregon Wrestling Classic held January 14-15 at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds is one of the most comprehensive tournaments in the state, including over 75 teams from all OSAA classifications. The tournament’s format places four or five teams from the same classification into pools, and those teams go head-to-head against each of the schools in the pool as dual matches through rounds. Sisters’ boys team wrestled in Pool No. 3 against Tillamook, Phoenix, Philomath, Baker/P... Full story
The Outlaws ski teams raced in a slalom race on a hard, fast surface on Duba’s Descent at Hoodoo on Wednesday, January 12. Conditions were sunny and clear and turned to beautiful starry skies under the night- lights. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams finished strong in the first Emerald League slalom race of the season. On the girls’ side, Presley Adelt took first place with a combined time of 1:20.46. Charlotte Seymour took fourth with a combined time of 1:25.59, and Piper Adelt finished sixth with a time of 1:30.95. Other s... Full story
Farewell to a true cowboy. Jerry was born in Turtle Lake, North Dakota, to parents Herman H. Klatt and Edna Ella (Leib) Klatt, and was the oldest of nine children, six boys and three girls. The family lived and farmed in Washburn, North Dakota until 1956 when they moved to California, settling in Corona. He began his schooling at age 5 in a one-room schoolhouse with two other children and finished his education in Corona, California. He regretted not being able to enlist in... Full story
At the febrile height of the French Revolution — the political event that created the modern world — the General Council of the Paris Commune issued a kind of passport for citizens who could demonstrate that they were politically reliable: the certificat de civisme. Proof of civic virtue and political reliability was absolutely vital. Without a certificate, a citizen was “civilly dead.” They had no rights, they could not find legitimate employment, and they wer... Full story
The Lady Outlaws fell 45-24 to the Stayton Eagles at home in Sisters on Tuesday, January 14, in their first league game of the season, and three days later suffered a heartbreaking 51-46 loss at home to the Sweet Home Huskies. Sisters and Stayton both started off slow on offense in Tuesday’s matchup, and midway through the quarter the Outlaws were down by one, 2-3, and at the close of the quarter, Sisters trailed by two, 6-8. The Outlaws scored seven points in the second q... Full story
The plea hearing for a Sisters spa owner accused of multiple counts of sex abuse and practicing massage without a license has been pushed back to February 17. Mike Boyle is the owner of Hop in the Spa in downtown Sisters. A Deschutes County Grand Jury handed up an indictment on September 7, 2021 including: •?13 counts of practice of massage without a license; •?Two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree (Class B felony); •?Five counts of sexual abuse in the third degree (Class A misdemeanor); •?One... Full story
The Outlaws dominated play in their 69-36 win at home against the Sweet Home Huskies on Friday, January 14. Three days earlier they kicked off league play with a 49-59 loss at home to the Stayton Eagles. The game against the Huskies stayed close; the teams were knotted up three times in the first three and a half minutes of play. The Outlaws started to pull ahead with just over two minutes left in the period when Ricky Huffman stole the ball, galloped the length of the court,... Full story
With the Sisters School District soon starting construction on a new elementary school, a common question in the community is: “What will become of the current school building?” The building is located at the corner of Highway 20 and North Locust Street. The Sisters School District has asked Citizens4Community (C4C), a nonprofit working for greater civility, collaboration, and civic engagement in Sisters Country, to conduct an outreach project with the community. The goal of this project is to get public input leading to the... Full story
Citizens can learn more about Whychus Creek starting in February by attending five two-hour classes sponsored by the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council (UDWC). At the end of the classes, an all-day tour of the Whychus watershed will occur in May. Whychus Creek has its origins high up in the Three Sisters, runs down through Sisters, and continues northeast to join up with the Deschutes River on its way to the Columbia River and eventually the Pacific Ocean. The Whychus... Full story
To quote a favorite songwriter: “You don’t know what you got til it’s gone.” This message is a call to action. As bad as January 6, 2021 was, our democracy is in more danger today than a year ago. That was a day of physical chaos and coordinated internal pressure trying to overpower democracy. It was an attempt to reject our system of governance by the force of violent extremists and a core group of treasonous masterminds. They planned to run out the clock before Congress could certify the election, have Congress reject... Full story
Whose disinformation? To the Editor: I was simply mildly incredulous in reading a letter in this publication two weeks ago that asserted that 40-year-old Soviet propaganda was similar to “right-wing propaganda that has infected our country.” But, to find in another letter last week that there are, yet, apparently others among us who share such delusion is truly disheartening. The original writer said that the “right-wing (yes, not the left): applied incendiary labels to opponents, misleadingly lumps opponents together, peddle... Full story
The City of Sisters is offering the U.S. Forest Service $675,000 to purchase the 14.51-acre East Portal property. The property is located at the eastern terminus of Highway 242 at the northwest corner of west Highway 20 and Highway 242 and bordered on the west by West Hood Avenue. It is the final parcel of USFS land that was available for sale to help support redevelopment of the Sisters ranger station. Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid told The Nugget that the purchase of the... Full story
One of the appealing features of Sisters for residents and visitors alike is the ability to see the stars – a whole lot of stars – on any clear night. But that special feature is under attack as more outside lights appear in burgeoning developments and more LED lights are used in outdoor lighting. Voices of concerned citizens are getting louder, and the City is hearing them. At last week’s City Council workshop, Community Development Director Scott Woodford b... Full story
