News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Harold and Dorothy Barclay. Photo provided Dorothy Barclay, who figured prominently in Sisters from logging camp days to the beginnings of the tourist industry, died at 92 on April 2. Barclay and her husband, Harold, came to Sisters to live in pioneer conditions when the timber industry was the lifeblood of the little Cascade foothill community. During their lifetimes, the logging industry faded and Sisters faded with it. Harold Barclay was instrumental in helping Sisters transition from a resource-based economy to a... Full story
Tie a yellow ribbon... Photo by Jim Cornelius The American flag may be red, white and blue, but Sisters is showing its support for the troops with yellow and blue. The community of Sisters is backing U.S. troops with the traditional yellow ribbon. They are not tied around the "old oak tree," but instead on the chain-link fence of Sisters Elementary School as you drive into town on Highway 20. Tammy Taylor works for Fullhart Insurance and has been on the Board for Kiwanis for nearly three years. Driving into town one day,... Full story
For the last several years, the Forest Service has devoted considerable resources to wildfire prevention and forest health programs. Sisters has been one of the areas to benefit. According to Jinny Pitman, Fire Prevention Specialist with the Sisters Ranger District, the Forest Service would now like to take wildfire prevention one step further. Next week the Forest Service will be putting together a program to help instruct local residents on ways to increase wildfire survivability. "The idea," said Pitman, "is to help... Full story
Multnomah Publishers eliminated 24 positions in a layoff announced to staff on Thursday, April 3. According to a press release from company President Don Jacobson, the layoff was "the result of a decision to restructure and re-focus the firm's business." "We took this decision very seriously and made it after examining all aspects of how we needed to structure the company for the future," Jacobson stated. According to Senior Vice President Kyle Cummings, "The elimination of 24 positions leaves us 103 employees or open positio... Full story
Members of the Sisters High School Concert Band unpack their instruments and prepare to rehearse for Sunday's joint free concert here with the Portland Youth Philharmonic. Photo by Tom Chace Justin Thomas and Caitlin Partridge of Sisters do not know Sam Aquino from Portland. Ashley Owen and Patrick Hammons, also from Sisters, do not know Lucas Sokol who lives in Hillsboro. They, along with about 100 other musicians, will get together Sunday at Sisters High School to meet each other, have a pizza supper and make beautiful... Full story
The KiteStrings art festival will blend music, fine arts and party entertainment on Friday and Saturday, April 11-12. The Sisters Folk Festival Americana Fundraiser 2003 starts off with music, dance and a chili feed at Bronco Billy's Ranch Grill & Saloon on Friday, April 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. Local Americana band Big Eddy will perform while participants chow down on Bronco Billy's chili. Flamenco dancers and Americana Project students are scheduled to add some youthful levity performing on the covered deck. Tickets are $10/adu... Full story
The coming fire season promises to be a dangerous one and fire officials are urging local residents to get prepared. Creating defensible space around your home can give firefighters a chance to save it when fire intrudes as it did during the Cache Mountain fire at Black Butte Ranch last summer. Central Oregon FireFree, a team composed of Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Wildland and Structural Fire Services, insurance agencies and other interest groups met in March at the Fire Training Center in Bend. Their focus is... Full story
Students from Camp Sherman's Black Butte School will offer their best projects to the judges at the eighth annual Oregon State National History Day Competition finals on Saturday, April 12 at Willamette University in Salem. The students are among 150 competitors from 14 Oregon middle and high schools. Students will present papers, exhibit displays, media presentations and performances on the theme "Rights and Responsibilities in History.' Oregon Council for the Humanities Executive Director Christopher Zinn will present the... Full story
A Sisters deputy stopped a driver on Highway 126 on April 1 for driving with a suspended license. The stop led to the arrest of two men on drug charges. According to sheriff's office reports, after stopping Gary Edward Camp, 32, of Bend, the deputy noticed an object that looked like a pipe bomb in the car. He summoned Oregon State Police for assistance and officers determined that the object was not an explosive device. A sheriff's narcotics detection dog named "Tweeker" alerted on a bag in the vehicle which was allegedly... Full story
Sisters High School Principal Boyd Keyser is moving out of Oregon, not just out of Sisters. In a front-page column in last month's school newsletter, Keyser announced that he would resign his post at the end of this school year. A few days later, he announced that he had accepted a job in Washington state -- principal of Cle Elum-Roslyn High School. Cle Elum is in the Interstate 90 corridor about 80 miles east of Seattle. At its regular meeting last Monday night, the Sisters School Board accepted Keyser's resignation without... Full story
The Episcopal Church is growing... Photo by Jim Cornelius Two years in the planning. A year and a half in construction. And now, waiting. Waiting for the city sewer line running along McKinney Butte Road to be finished to permit a coalition of four property owners along "church row" to hook onto it. They call themselves, "The Trinity Way Sewer Consortium." Among those is The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, where the new 5,000-square-foot Community Hall is waiting. Others in the group are St. Edward's Catholic... Full story
Holm and Susan Neumann on Ima and Inajara in Brazil. Photo provided The Sisters horse scene is gaining some exotic influence. Holm and Susan Neumann have begun the process of importing six of Brazil's national horses, the Mangalarga Marchador, to join the two they already have. The horses are gaited, range in size between 14 and 16 hands and appear in a variety of colors. The two unique gaits which the horses display have the colorful names Marcha Picada and Marcha Batida (pronounced Bachita). Picada is a four-beat lateral ga... Full story
Lynne Conrad, assistant librarian of the Sisters Library, re-fills the "revolving book racks," of paperback volumes which may be "checked out" and kept indefinitely, without a library card. Photo by Tom Chace A revolving book rack, literally, is in use at the Sisters Library for those who want to take one or more books out and keep them indefinitely. "This is not a particularly new service," said Sandy McDonald, assistant librarian. "But not too many people know about it. We do have four large carousels or rotary book racks... Full story
Thousands of horse and small farming enthusiasts will descend on the Sisters Rodeo Grounds for the 25th annual Small Farmer's Journal Draft Horse and Horsedrawn Equipment Auction and Swap Meet April 25-27. The meet is a family-oriented agricultural history event. Thousands of items will be offered for sale, privately and at public auction. These include: draft horses, mules, buggy horses, saddle horses, working ponies plus buggies, carriages, stagecoaches, sleighs, freight wagons, covered wagons, buckboards, pleasure driving... Full story
The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer's name, address and phone number. Letters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor. The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is noon Monday. To the Editor; Mr. Addison's... Full story
Late season snows may be annoying when you've just taken your studded tires off and are looking for your tulips to start peeking out. But irrigators are mighty pleased to see a decent snowpack develop in the high country. "The lower elevation snow is around 40 percent and that's not good," said Squaw Creek Irrigation District (SCID) Manager Marc Thalacker. "The upper elevation snow is decent." Local farmers are less dependent than others in the state on local runoff, getting... Full story
Osama bin Laden started the war of terrorism. With our country's response and given the events that have occurred since September 11, 2001, I believe that while we may be winning a military battle in Iraq, he is winning the war. Bin Laden is playing us like a Stradivarius. Bin Laden hates the U.S.; he hates our freedom, ideals and values and loves our blinding arrogance. He thrives on fear and that is his primary weapon against us: Count on a Violent Response -- Fear loves violence; violence is the food and sustenance of... Full story
- Two women reported having their cars broken into at Sisters High School and their purses stolen. - A deputy responded to a residential burglar alarm. Multiple motion detectors had been tripped. The deputy found the residence secure, but there was a large dog roaming around inside. Perhaps that had something to do with the motion detectors going off. - An underage Sisters man tried multiple times to buy beer -- without success. - The same deputy who dealt with multiple dead dogs last week had to take care of another in the... Full story
