News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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COVID has messed with my mind. Oh, I didn’t actually contract COVID and I know very few people who did, but more than a year of COVID restrictions has definitely changed how I think and act. And I know I’m not alone. I’ve jokingly told friends we need a COVID recovery plan. And now that we’re moving into a less restrictive season, but still suffering uncertainties and inhibitions, I think it’s no joke. Especially when we want to be free from any lingering shadows of the intrusive pandemic that shut us down. Easier said than... Full story
• Numbers tell the story. The recent July 4th event at Sisters Eagle Airport tallied 825 pancake breakfasts served by the Rotary Club of Sisters. The event raised over $4,000 for the aviation program at Sisters High School. • Record visitors to Smith Rock. The internationally recognized State Park is set to exceed 800,000 visitors this year even with some lost days due to Covid and record heat. In 2019, the last full year of operation, 776,000 visited the park,... Full story
A few days ago, a friend and I were talking about the U.S. abandonment of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and the parallels with the evacuation of Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1975. “When do we learn?” my friend asked. It was a rhetorical question, because my friend knows that we don’t learn from our history. We just… don’t. It brings to mind a passage from Cormac McCarthy’s novel “All the Pretty Horses,” in which Doña Alfonsa tells the young cowboy hero John Gra... Full story
The Sisters High School cross country team invites runners of all ages from the community to join team members for informal summer runs. Formal practices for the team don’t begin until August 16, but the team has put together four opportunities a week for low-key training runs for all experience levels. Coach Charlie Kanzig views the summer runs as important to the upcoming season and also sees the value of offering scheduled times for anyone who would like to join in. “The biggest thing is to have a consistent time to mee... Full story
Fire has no part in recreation in Sisters Country this summer. Northwest Fire Agencies, including Sisters-Camp Sherman, Cloverdale, and Black Butte Ranch Fire Districts, have imposed a ban on all recreational burning. The districts will follow the regulated-use closures imposed by the Oregon Department of Forestry and public use restrictions imposed by the Central Oregon Fire Management Services in the Central Oregon District, to help prevent human-caused wildfires. The ban will be in effect for Northwest Fire Agencies until... Full story
The original city of Sisters was carved out of the homestead belonging to Alex Smith, who emigrated from New Brunswick, Canada, in 1886, first to Grass Valley, Oregon where he raised sheep, and then to Sisters. He purchased 160 acres from John Smith, no relation. In 1900, Alex sold half of his interest to his brother Robert. On July 10, 1901, the Smith brothers had the original townsite of Sisters platted, consisting of six city blocks. The plat was bounded on the south by... Full story
Tate Metcalf makes no bones about the fact that the past year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a tough one for the health club he has operated in Sisters for more than two decades. Tough state mandates on capacity, and a roller coaster ride on risk categorization, challenged a business that is based on people gathering together to work out, to participate in classes — and to socialize. Being cut off or inhibited from their regular exercise program was hard on... Full story
“Yeah, baby!” That was the very first response when The Nugget began its rounds Saturday, asking people on the street attending the Quilt Show if they were enjoying their visit. Throughout the day the answers were similar in immediacy and enthusiasm. Even as the day wore on and the temperatures rose, spirits were universally high. The traffic through town was manageable, with seven members of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office supervising flow — two on bikes, inclu... Full story
The Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) has been developing its lineup ever since the State of Oregon reopened and is excited with this year’s creative direction of its signature event, scheduled for October 1-3. In a new round of bookings, artists for the 2021 SFF include: nine-time all-Ireland fiddle champion and Grammy award-winner Eileen Ivers; legendary zydeco musician CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band; LowDown Brass Band with their horn-driven Chicago street beat, jazz a... Full story
Red Baiting To the Editor: I thought red-baiting died in the late 1950s when Joseph McCarthy passed away in disgrace. But I see it is alive and well in The Nugget. For months there have been numerous letters to the editor from Jeff Mackey, and now a guest column, where he accuses anyone with whom he disagrees by using the usual red-baiting terms, Marxist, socialist, and/or communist, thus hoping to end any logical discourse. I find it odd he accuses Democrats of being Marxist or communists when it was eight Republican... Full story
Madison Cunningham is hitting the Sisters Folk Festival stage for the first time this Saturday, July 17, as part of the Sisters Summer of Festival. Cunningham will be performing on a co-bill with SFF alumn Steve Poltz. The show will take place outdoors at Sisters Art Works at 204 W. Adams Ave. in Sisters, at 7 p.m. Cunningham has been writing and playing guitar for pretty much as long as she can remember. Growing up in Costa Mesa, her dad was a musician at a local church and... Full story
