News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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• Folk Arts & Co. will host its big annual pottery and art sale on February 17-20. The gallery will be closed Tuesday and Wednesdays through March 7. • A Joyful Noise Learning Center will be closed Monday, February 20, in observance of President’s Day. • The Barclay Gallery is offering a series of classes focusing on the art of book making. All the classes will be taught by Bend artist Sondra Holtsman and will be held in the large studio space upstairs in the new Sisters Art Works building. Class are $35 each plus supplie... Full story
The 40,000 travelers passing through the Redmond Airport each month can see something new — a high-tech advertisement that is actually pleasant to look at. Sisters-based Fluid Images Film and Video Production has installed three High Definition plasma monitors which show more than a 12-foot width of beautiful scenes of Central Oregon interspersed with advertisements. Fluid Images president Rick Johnson knew the technology was successful when he passed through the airport h... Full story
• Sisters eighth grader Austin Malone thanked the people and businesses that are sponsoring his upcoming trip to Washington , D.C. as a member of the People to People World Leadership Forum: Aspen Lakes; Strategic Mortgage; Zadow Physical Therapy; Sisters Video; GMAC Mortgage; Robert Johnson; the Bates family; the Reed family; the Jackson family; Helen Sether; Alexander Weiss; and Midge Rose. He noted a special thank-you to Mike Cox and Jody Henderson for recommending him to the program and to his family and close friends. ... Full story
Kody Johns was the only Sisters wrestler to place high enough to advance to the State Wrestling Championships that will be held Thursday through Saturday, February 16-18 in Salem. Johns (103 pounds) lost in the championship round to Chris Farris of Sweet Home. “Kody entered districts as the number-one seed,” said Coach Tony Cosby. “Kody had beat Farris so decisively (8-1) at home that we thought this match would be pretty easy. He went up early in the match and took a 4-0 lead. Farris started the second period down and got a... Full story
The old expression, “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet…” applies when it comes to importing non-native species into Central Oregon for sportsmen to harvest. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) biologist Corey Heath’s statement in The Nugget a while back regarding big horn sheep is to the point: “You have to manage them pretty close so they don’t overpopulate a range.” We can trace the history of big horn sheep back to a time when they roamed all over the West, so it makes... Full story
