News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The false perception — spread through social media — that the local McDonald’s franchise in Sisters refused to feed hungry wildland firefighters led some in Sisters Country to respond with anger, moral outrage, and a desire to punish the offenders. We can understand this response by peering at our behavior through the lens of evolutionary psychology. We learn from Andrew W. Delton and his colleagues: “From prehistory to the present, human survival has depended on productive labor, much of which was carried out... Full story
Employees of Crestline Construction who were checking equipment on Sunday, July 11, at Rimrock Ranch on Wilt Road were in the right place at the right time. While making sure the heavy equipment would be ready to go Monday morning at 5 a.m., the men noticed the early plume of smoke from what became the Grandview Fire, which eventually burned 6,032 acres, coming frighteningly close to Gayle Baker’s Rimrock Ranch, a Deschutes Land Trust (DLT) property. After alerting a... Full story
This summer, Sisters Community Church has been hosting a concert series on Sunday evenings on the lawn outside the church. The goal of the series was, as Pastor Steve Stratos put it, “to bring joy to the community.” The music has done that — but it has also provided a substantial boost to local nonprofits. Each show has a designated beneficiary. According to Stratos, the first three concerts in the series raised more than $10,000 for Sisters Family Access Network, Young Life, and Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch. There are two... Full story
A couple of years ago, the ownership of The Nugget hosted a gathering of the chiefs of their roster of community newspapers, hailing from Washington and Oregon to Michigan. We rendezvoused in their home base of Buffalo, Wyoming, which lies at the foot of the eastern slope of the Bighorn Mountains much as Sisters relates to the Cascades. It’s historic country. The Bozeman Trail, which branched off of the Oregon Trail in the 1860s to reach the goldfields in Montana, runs through... Full story
•Gas prices continue to climb. If you drive a performance auto that requires premium unleaded fuel, you can expect to pay $4.75/gallon in Sisters for ethanol-free gas. For everybody else it’s $3.85/gallon on average for the four petrol stations in town. That’s an increase of 23 cents in just one month and $1.09/gallon since January. •Pump your own. Speaking of gas, the 76 station at Sisters Pumphouse & Country Store is allowing self-service due to its continuing sta... Full story
Two weeks ago, camps of the homeless, aka the houseless, aka those living in rough shelter, in squalor and despair rank in the hot July sun near the Columbia River in Portland, seemed almost apocalyptic. After asking liberals and conservatives what they thought could be done, and reading a variety of publications, I think there may actually be some options but am not at all sure we can get there from here. Because I had a bias against publicly funded “affordable housing” (at... Full story
Marvin Benson passed away peacefully in his Sisters home surrounded by family on August 5. Marvin was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up helping in the family milk and grocery business, and lifeguarding on the shores of Lake Michigan. After graduating from high school, Marvin enlisted and saw many parts of the world through the lens of the U.S. Marine Corps. Shortly after his discharge, he met the love of his life, Trine, a Norwegian nurse working in the... Full story
Meredith Chaffin McKittrick Taylor, loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away peacefully at the side of her beloved husband, Al, on July 26, 2021 at the age of 90. Meredith was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Smith College in 1952. Meredith spent most of her adult life in Santa Barbara, California. In 1997, she began spending the summer months at Black Butte Ranch, where she became a cherished part of the Sisters... Full story
