News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Memories of Valentine’s Days past may turn to chocolates, flowers, dinner, and dancing. This year, the day of love may look different. With continued restrictions on indoor dining across the country, many people are swapping a romantic evening out for an at-home meal or celebration. Some may use this as an opportunity to show off the new cooking skills they picked up during the pandemic. Love is a positive emotion, with many tangible health benefits, and you can express it i... Full story
Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) has issued a call for artists to contribute to the My Own Two Hands (MOTH) virtual art auction scheduled for May 10-15. Sisters Folk Festival is more than a music festival. The organization’s outreach programming in Sisters schools includes 20 years of music and arts education through the Americana Project, 12 years of building handmade guitars and ukuleles in Sisters High School’s luthier program, visual arts support, and our recently completed five-year Studio to School grant for arts pro... Full story
It has been said that to know the priorities of an organization one must look to their budget. As a public entity, the City of Sisters is a steward of both public trust and public funds. The City goes through a rigorous process annually to carefully identify the use of funds across departments and provide transparency adopting the legal spending authority to use funds. Beginning in earnest in January, the City begins formulating the budget for the upcoming fiscal year – each July 1 the City’s new fiscal year (FY) s... Full story
To the Editor: Since moving into the Oval Office, Joe Biden has signed into effect 40 executive orders. In all of U.S. history, such a degree of usurping our bodies of Congress is unprecedented, and rightly arouses concern in any reasonable American. Conduct so profoundly monarchist exhibited so soon after having assumed America’s highest office is suspect at best. Collectively, the orders which Biden has thus executed run grossly inconsistent with tradition, as if wishing to eradicate the simple, apparently now-antiquated A... Full story
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed thousands of businesses across the country, but for Deb Yannariello, co-owner of Sisters Depot Kitchen & Cocktail Bar, it seemed a good time to start a new one. “We bought the building in September and we opened mid-December,” she told The Nugget last month. “We have no history here at all and I think we’re doing good for January. Everything here is new — including the menu — and we have an outdoor, covered dining area and a heati... Full story
The Cloverdale Fire District Board of Directors voted unanimously last week to place a local option levy on the May ballot to fund enhanced emergency medical and fire response for District residents. The Cloverdale District lies in the rural lands east of Sisters. The levy would have a tax rate of $1.35 per $1,000 of assessed property value (not market value) for a period of five years. For every $100,000 of assessed property value, the cost would be $135. According to the District, funds from the levy would be used to... Full story
Through a collaborative effort of the Sisters Trails Alliance (STA), Rima Givot’s Sisters High School biology students, and Bethany Gunnarson’s art students, interpretive signs are being created for the Tollgate Trail that winds through Trout Creek Conservation Area (TCCA) in the woods adjoining the high school. “Having been a high-school educator, I am very aware that Sisters High School is unique and blessed to have a conservation area immediately adjacent to the campus &mda... Full story
The 2020 Census is delayed — again. Trying to get a peek at the new number for Sisters’ population is frustrating. We put a man on the moon 50 years ago but it’s been almost 10 months since the official count started and we still don’t have a number for Sisters. It is understandable that Portland or Eugene might take a while to tabulate, but Sisters? Not even a preliminary number. Not even an estimate. In the years between the decennial census, the U.S. Census Burea... Full story
Newport Avenue Market and Oliver Lemon’s customers and colleagues have raised $75,015.67 to help alleviate hunger in Central Oregon. The money raised, as a result of the markets’ Food for February fundraiser, will be used to purchase groceries at cost for Family Kitchen of Bend, Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, and Meals on Wheels of Central Oregon. Newport Avenue Market and Oliver Lemon’s shoppers donated throughout the month of December, and the employee-owned markets matched the funds for a combined total of $75,015.67. This... Full story
