News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Contractors and electric utilities nationwide are sounding the alarm over the global shortage of electric transformers — those ubiquitous green boxes or gray cylinders that sit on ground pads or hang on utility poles transforming high voltage to that which your house, office, or store can use. A transformer is a piece of equipment that either increases or reduces the voltage as electricity is transferred across the electrical grid to customers. Home builders are... Full story
Summer has arrived, and this week the temperatures are forecast to be in the 90s. The slash pad at Fir Street Park will be busy providing cool water for the kids to play in. Water in that splash pad gets treated and recycled rather than draining away into the sewer. That recycling is just one way the City is using its water wisely, which is what they are encouraging Sisters residents to do to reduce water waste. Some citizens have expressed confusion, some frustration, some... Full story
Would you pay $2,399 plus airfare to come to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show? Of course not. You live here. But 80 did, all part of Country Heritage Tours’ “2022 Sensational Sisters.” Two luxury motor coaches collected the group in Portland, gave them a drive-by tour of the Oregon Coast and the Columbia Gorge before bringing them to Sisters, the centerpiece of their week-long excursion. They hailed from 17 different states, with one in the entourage from the Netherlands. On Fr... Full story
To help with the kickoff of this year’s Sisters Rhythm & Brews Festival, the Sisters Folk Festival and Rhythm and Brews are teaming up to put on a special acoustic evening of country blues and gospel, accompanied by tasty barbecue. An Evening with the Blues, Thursday, August 11, showcases generational talents Jontavious Willis, Southern Ave., and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, each doing a unique set leading up to the Rhythm and Brews Festival, August 12-13. Every generation or so, a... Full story
The second in a three-part lecture series presented by Pine Meadow Ranch in Sisters for Arts and Agriculture and The Roundhouse Foundation is set for July 28. July’s lecture, entitled “Coexistence and Regeneration: Learning from Rural Voices, Ecology + Craft,” features two speakers: award-winning independent radio and podcast journalist Ashley Ahearn, and fiber artist and furniture designer Sally Linville. Ahearn takes you behind the scenes of her radio series, “Women’s Work,... Full story
Outdoor string lights prompted much discussion at last week’s Planning Commission workshop regarding the proposed Development Code amendment to the Dark Skies ordinance. As growth and attendant light pollution threaten one of Sisters special features — dark, star-spangled night skies — more attention is being drawn to measures necessary to protect that night sky. The Sisters City Council made it one of their goals to update and fully implement the City’s Dark Ski... Full story
