News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the First Thanksgiving — the harvest feast in which the people we know as the Pilgrims celebrated survival (barely) of their first year in the Plymouth settlement on the coast of what would become Massachusetts. The Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving have been as heavily mythologized as anything in American history. The happy legend extolls the Pilgrims as pioneers of religious freedom, marking an early foothold of English... Full story
Paul Patton, longtime resident and teacher in the Sisters School District, will take over as the new head girls basketball coach. Patton has been the assistant coach the past two years, under two different head coaches, and when the position opened he decided to apply. Patton was notified this past summer he’d gotten the job. Patton has taught in the Sisters School District since 1995, at the Flex School, Sisters Middle School, and currently at Sisters High School. Sports h... Full story
Furnish Hope, which provides home furnishings for families and individuals in need, wrote: Early on Saturday, November 13, the Furnish Hope donation truck arrived at Sisters Ace Hardware. Car after car rolled up beginning at 7 a.m. and extending throughout the day in Sisters, to fill the Furnish Hope truck full of household essentials and furnishings. As beautiful treasures were handed over, stories and memories were shared. Those donating the items expressed so much joy knowing their family treasures would be going to a new... Full story
With winter conditions right around the corner, the City’s Public Works Department asks all downtown property owners and businesses not to use chemical-based deicers or snow melt products on the sidewalks adjacent to their businesses. Keeping the sidewalks passible for pedestrians is the business owner’s responsibility. The City is asking everyone to use sand and/or birdseed as substitutes for the chemical products, which begin to break down the concrete after a couple of app... Full story
When he was hired three years ago, the Council knew Cory Misley was a young man on the way up, and that he wouldn’t be in Sisters forever. But for the present, he’s here, fully engaged, and happy. The city manager position for which he recently interviewed in Hood River was filled by another candidate. Misley, who recently received his annual review from the Sisters City Council, wants the residents to know he loves Sisters, has a great staff, an engaged City Council, and is... Full story
Lester Isan Zemansky passed suddenly on the morning of May 12 in Sisters. He was 80 years old. Les was a longtime resident of Magalia, and Paradise, California. After the Camp Fire in Paradise in November 2018, he moved to Sisters. To read the full obituary go to https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/chicoer/name/lester-zemansky-obituary?id=31530524... Full story
When Harmony Thomas was a fourth-grader at Sisters Elementary School in the 1980s, life was rough. But a teacher, Julie Gravely, took Thomas under her wing and helped her develop a love for art, which brought some positive results in the young girl’s life almost immediately — and which has inspired Thomas to establish a scholarship through Sisters Graduate Resource Organization (GRO). The organization distributes local scholarships to Sisters High School students to supp... Full story
•?Sisters named one of 12 best small towns in Oregon. In the November issue of Travel & Leisure Magazine, an international publication some consider the gold standard in travel publications, Sisters was one of the 12 small towns in Oregon the magazine recommended to its 4.8 million readers. •?New airline debuts at Redmond. Aha — an acronym and brand name for air, hotel, adventure — began service last week with thrice weekly round trips from Redmond to Ren... Full story
The COVID Grinch stole Sisters’ traditional Christmas holiday events last year — but now they’re back, with some modifications. The Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce will host the 2021 Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony on Friday, November 26, starting at 5:30 p.m. with tree lighting at 6 p.m. The Holiday Parade will be the next day starting at 2 p.m. on Hood Avenue. Due to ongoing concerns regarding COVID-19 the Chamber will not be hosting the traditional Visit with Santa. In lieu of Visit with Santa, Hayden Homes wil... Full story
Kevin Marquardt has harnessed his love of climbing cliffs and boulders into a thriving business. But they way he makes a living has him firmly on solid ground. He officially started Dirtbag Conversions in May of last year. The name may be Dirtbag but the van conversions he’s turning out are anything but disorganized or unkempt. In fact, seeing how he transforms the interior of his customer’s vehicles is quite amazing. Getting to a place where his thriving business is boo... Full story
Virtually overnight the number of food trucks in Sisters doubled when The Barn opened last week after a “soft” opening on November 4. The project, begun almost a year ago, looks like it has been a fixture at Main and Fir for years. That’s due in part to its architecture and design plan, giving the appearance of a farm building that may have been renovated and converted for food and beverage. In fact, it’s brand-spanking new from the ground up, the dream of Daniel and Kelly St.... Full story
We’ve been in what seems like an indefinite holding pattern with COVID-19 since March 2020. Clearly the first few months were a time to walk circumspectly, do good research, check the data, and make wise choices. What we learned is that COVID is real, some folks have a real adverse reaction, and for those who have suffered greatly through the virus, I grieve with you for what you have lost. What has been abundantly clear from the health officials is that they have seen COVID-19 as a clear and present danger in which we s... Full story
The Mitchell/Spray/Wheeler football team won the state 1A six-man football title over the Triangle Lake Lakers 30-0 on Saturday, November 13 at Reed Stadium in Sisters. Six-man football, you ask? There’s a history of the six-man game in Sisters. Old-timers and history buffs in Sisters Country know that the Sisters Outlaws won the six-man State title, played in Sisters, all the way back in 1959, their second title in two years. In the smallest rural schools in Oregon, high s... Full story
Patriot’s Pen To the Editor: It was so heartening to read Jonathan M. Burks’ Patriot’s Pen Award essay in The Nugget. His essay had tremendous insight on what it means to be a true American patriot. Any serious student of U.S. history will tell you that we became the United States of America against all odds. And I can see our Founding Fathers’ spirit of independence, fortitude, and responsibility is still alive in our young people! Many people could learn a lot from his essay. As a first-generation American and vet, I have... Full story
Sisters residents who signed in and commented during the Sisters Planning Commission meeting on the Sisters Woodlands project on Wednesday, November 10, were fairly evenly divided between those who supported the project and those who had objections. The proposed development would add some 359 residential units of varying kinds to Sisters. (See related story, at left.) Via Zoom, Dixie Eckford asked if there is going to be any type of fencing around or within the development.... Full story
A project that would add approximately 359 new housing units to Sisters got a hearing before the Sisters Planning Commission on Wednesday, November 10. No final decisions were made: Commissioners voted in favor of continuing the hearing on the Sisters Woodlands project to Thursday, December 2, at 5:30 p.m. The oral and written records pertaining to the Woodlands Master Plan are closed; the purpose of the special December 2 meeting will be to allow the Commissioners time to del... Full story
A 48-year-old Sisters area man — as yet unidentified by law enforcement — was among those swept up in a long-term investigation into the manufacturing and distribution of controlled substances within the Central Oregon area. The investigation involved the Deschutes County Illegal Marijuana Enforcement team and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Street Crimes Unit. On November 11, around 9:30 a.m., Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Detectives executed three search warrants in Bend, Sisters, and Terrebonne. These l... Full story
For over two decades, the Sisters community has enhanced the educational experience of Sisters students through donations to the Sisters Schools Foundation (SSF). Currently SSF is in the midst of its fall donation campaign to fund a range of educational needs in all three Sisters schools that fall outside the school district’s regular budget. Teachers make requests for high-priority items and programs, which are reviewed and acted upon by the Foundation. Such needs include C... Full story
