News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Julie Escobar and her husband, Gordon Robertson, are living their idyllic life. Their log home in Sisters Country is surrounded by juniper and ponderosa trees. Bounding through a plethora of sagebrush or nestling deep into a doggy bed, their snuggly, precocious pup, Lola, is always ready for the next excursion. Their home looks out on a vast horizon with Black Butte and the Three Sisters welcoming them each morning. Their days are filled with working corporate jobs from their... Full story
AFSC (Age Friendly Sisters Country) expresses a heart-felt thank you to John Griffith and Rendal Broomhead for their two-plus years of dedicated service to Sisters Country as founding board members and strategic leaders of AFSC. We also wish to thank Sharon Thorkildson for serving as our first volunteer bookkeeper. Through their combined efforts, AFSC has become a viable nonprofit committed to launching grassroots projects that enhance the quality of life (AKA livability) in our community. This is how the STARS (free medical... Full story
Since 2005, residents of 153 nations have been asked each year by the Gallup World Poll to imagine their current position on a ladder with steps numbered from zero to 10, where the top represents the best possible life and the bottom the worst possible life for themselves. These “life evaluations” provide researchers with a measure of a nation’s well-being. The World Happiness Report averaged life evaluations from 2017 to 2019. When nations were ranked according to their average life evaluation scores, the United State... Full story
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) has settled on a pick for a body-cam and in-car camera system. In November 2020, DCSO began field testing body-worn and in-car camera systems. They tested two different brands of camera systems for 60 days. Each deputy testing the camera systems utilized each brand of camera system for 30 days. The testing consisted of not only field use of each camera system, but the evaluation of software, data storage requirements, data s... Full story
If you bought shares of Laird Superfood (Symbol LSF on NYSE) on September 22 last year, at the opening price of $22, you could have sold them the next day for $40.80 and popped some fine champagne. That was the Initial Public Offering (IPO) price of the Sisters plant-based food-products company which is frequently a topic of conversation in Sisters Country. The IPO caught the attention of Barron’s, Forbes, Fox Business Channel, Market Watch, The Street, and Yahoo Finance, a... Full story
The City of Sisters will soon begin replacing water lines in the South Cedar Street to South Locust Street alley. This project will impact the alleys both north and south of East Jefferson Avenue, connecting South Cedar with South Locust streets. The City’s contractor, Robinson & Owen Heavy Construction, anticipates a start date of April 1, possibly sooner, and the work will take 35-45 days. Work will take place during business hours and pedestrian and vehicle access through the alleys will be unavailable on weekdays for t... Full story
The long wait is over for the Sisters High School cross country teams; they have official meets on the schedule for the first time in months and are ready to test their training. A strong core of experienced runners return for the Outlaws and they look ready to make the most of the shortened season offered up by the OSAA during this pandemic-impacted year. On the boys team, seniors Ethan Hosang, Will Thorsett, John Peckham, Sam May, Vicente Rebolledo, along with junior Max... Full story
Richard A. Davis (Dick)passed away peacefully on February 19, 2021 at “Our House” in Sisters. He was born November 13, 1937, in Eugene. He was known in Sisters for 40-plus years as the owner of Davis Tire & Towing. Dick and Eleanor moved to Sisters in 1962, with all their worldly possessions in a VW Bug and a half-ton pickup. They leased the Hancock Gas Station (now Space Age). In 1964, they bought the Silver Spur Motel (adjacent to Space Age). In the 1970s, Dick built a gas... Full story
Ronald Mohler passed away peacefully on February 24, 2021 at his home in Sisters. He was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania in 1931, the son of Elizabeth (Rutt) and David Wealand Mohler. “Ronnie” delivered newspapers, shined shoes at “the Greek’s,” worked at Cox’s Drug Store, the Glen-Gery brickyard, and the Miller Hess Shoe Factory in Akron. Ron was also a Boy Scout and felt that was an important influence in his life. He was an Ephrata High School ’49er. After graduation, R... Full story
A year after the Sisters School District announced that Sisters High School Principal Joe Hosang would be moving to a position at the district office, the plan is coming to fruition. The move was scrapped last spring after it became clear that COVID-19 would continue to wreak havoc into the 2020-21 school year, and that Sisters High School (SHS) would need the stability of keeping Hosang at the helm. Hosang will move to direct the human resource and curriculum departments for... Full story
Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District volunteers and staff have provided key support to vaccination clinics in the area. Volunteers and staff supported Deschutes County Public Health on Friday, February 26, in scheduling COVID vaccinations for 100 Sisters Country residents age 65 and over. “All appointments were taken within 40 minutes of the phone line opening,” said Julie Spor, public information officer and executive assistant for the Fire District. Initially, the District had two volunteers set to take appointments for the... Full story
The ancient philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus spoke a lot about relationships. How these relationships were connected determined what they called “soul happiness.” They also knew that this was central to the human experience of finding purpose and productivity in life. The organizing of these relationships in our society was the role of politics. Politics were to promote human flourishing, what they referred to as “The Good.” While the philosophers often d... Full story
The Roundhouse Foundation, based in Sisters, is awarding $6 million to the High Desert Museum, the largest single donation in the Museum’s nearly 40-year history. The gift will support more capacity for educational programming, immersive experiences to bring visitors into the forest canopy, and, in collaboration with tribal partners, an update of the Museum’s permanent exhibition on the past and present of the indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau, “By Hand Through Memor... Full story
Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) has been working closely with Sisters School District since fall to determine how to best support students and families during the 20/21 school year due to the impacts of COVID. While elementary students were able to return to in-person learning rather quickly, middle-school students remained in comprehensive distance learning (CDL) for months. Since November, SPRD has offered a specialized day camp, Camp SPRD, that is designed for... Full story
The pandemic has been tough on people’s waistlines. It’s reported that 36 percent of people have admitted to gaining a lot of weight during the pandemic. This should come as no surprise. In a stressful environment, the body is naturally receptive to weight gain. And the direction people turn to soothe some stress isn’t beneficial for the waistline either. Forty percent of people report eating and watching TV as their main coping mechanisms. Anyone reading this ought to know by now the body is a system, which is all wired... Full story
