News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The voters spoke last month, turning down the Sisters School District's request for a $14.5 million bond to rehabilitate, improve, and maintain facilities. The failure of the bond forces the district to face some hard choices. With no funds to maintain the plant, it's time to consider how to reconfigure and consolidate facilities. It's time to start planning for closure of Sisters Elementary School and the district administration offices. There are pressures beyond the strictly financial that point toward decommissioning the... Full story
I'm writing this letter to ask The Nugget Newspaper to consider not publishing op-ed pieces by Rachel Marsden. Google Rachel Marsden and you get titles such as: "Rachel Marsden: Least Intelligent Mainstream Warmonger Disinformation Hack of All Time?" or how about: "Rachel Marsden: Professional sadist, stalker, liar." This is a woman who calls water-boarding a learning experience: "I suppose that those who object to terror suspects getting water up the nose would say that, as a young competitive swimmer, I was also tortured.... Full story
To the Editor: I have been associated with the Deschutes Land Trust for over 15 years and served on the board of directors for eight years. When I first joined, the Land Trust began a project named Back to Home Waters. This was a long-range project aimed at protecting riparian habitat along the waterways in Central Oregon. The name referred to the hoped-for reintroduction of salmon into the watershed above Lake Billy Chinook. The Land Trust realized that, without protection and improvement of the watershed, the... Full story
'Tis the season for snow, and as if on cue, intermittent bursts of snowflakes fell as hundreds of spectators lined both sides of Hood Avenue on Saturday for the 37th Annual Sisters Christmas Parade. The parade was sponsored by the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce and Hoodoo Recreation, and this year's theme was "Hometown Christmas," inspired by Sisters' recent downtown reconstruction project. With a combination of floats, dancers, fire trucks and amazing animals, the... Full story
Sisters Country is expected to settle into a drippy weather pattern through much of the week. Forecasters are calling for rain on Wednesday, turning to snow Wednesday night, then back to showers on Thursday. There is a chance of precipitation through Saturday. No major weather is expected for the next 10 days or more, but the precipitation can cause problems for drivers, particularly in the early morning and late evening hours, when precipitation on roadways freezes. Drivers... Full story
Mark your holiday calendars for the annual Christmas concerts offered by the Sisters High Desert Chorale the second weekend in December. Under the direction of Irene Liden, the choir has been practicing all fall to prepare for their performances on Friday, December 12 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, December 14 at 2:30 p.m. Both concerts will be held at Sisters Community Church at 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. (Highway 242). The music this year includes a wide variety of seasonal pieces from... Full story
Abstract expressionist glimpses of Whychus Creek are captured by local artist Pam Jersey Bird in the Friends of the Sisters Library (FOSL) December exhibit, "Impressions of Whychus Creek," in the library's community room. Bird describes how her acrylic paintings of the creek, which runs through her Sisters neighborhood, reflect what she has experienced and observed of the creek over the past 13 years: "Moving water captivates me ... as it moves, sometimes gently and often... Full story
Pets are beloved members of the family for many folks in Sisters Country. For families in need, helping take care of their pets takes a major stress off their shoulders. The Sisters community has done just that ever since 1992, supporting the Furry Friends Pet Food Drive, held in conjunction with the Kiwanis Holiday Food Share program and the Sisters-Camp Sherman fire department's annual toy drive. Last year, the drive fed 401 pets. Since its inception, the program has helped... Full story
Cascade Fitness is going to "stay a gym" say new owners Curt and Meleah Richards - but it's a better, more convenient gym than ever. The couple, who recently relocated from Billings, Montana, have put a background in the construction business to work in remodeling and expanding the venerable Sisters gym, taking over the space that used to house Abigail's on Main. The entrance is now on the corner of Main Avenue and Fir Street, and opens onto a comfortable lounge area. Perhaps... Full story
If you're a dog parent, you may spend a lot of time wondering what you're dog is actually thinking about. Imagine being able to really know what your furry friend is thinking! The relationship between humans and dogs is unlike any other. In fact, we sometimes forget that our furry family members that share our lives, homes and often our beds with us are a totally different species from our own. However, according to Stanley Coren, a behaviorist from the University of British... Full story
Kari Sims Anthon, of Life.Love.Yoga. studio, has created the first-ever Registered Yoga School (RYS) for yoga teacher training in Sisters Country. "The focus of the Life.Love.Yoga. school is to explore the great wide world of yoga together and to find what speaks to your heart. By bringing in teachers from many other areas while offering a multi-disciplinary method we are able to find the true, authentic self," said Anthon, owner/director of the studio and primary facilitator... Full story
On November 19, I jogged along a country lane in sort of a dream-like state, not fully believing not only that was I in Switzerland; I was running toward the small village from which my great grandparents Charles (Karl) Kanzig and Marie Lerch Kanzig emigrated over 120 years ago. Back in the 1980s, I found a postcard in a trunk my mother owned that was filled with odds and ends of family history. The picture included a scene of a simple street in a Swiss village. The writer... Full story
December is an ideal month in which to view one of the brightest and nearest star clusters in the entire sky. The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, is located in the constellation Taurus the Bull. To find the cluster, start at Orion, draw a line through the three stars in his belt and extend the line northward and westward until you encounter a V-shaped pattern of stars in Taurus. Beyond the V-shape, and generally up and to the right of Orion, you will see a blur of... Full story
For the past decade, John Craigie has "lived the life romantic" of a continuously touring folk-singer, taking his unique musical style across the United States and the world. Those stops included opening for Shawn Colvin in Bend back in August, and playing the Sisters Folk Festival in 2013. Now he's returning to Sisters for a show at The Belfry on Friday, December 12, at 7 p.m. Singer-songwriter Brad Tisdel opens the show. A singer, songwriter and storyteller, Craigie stays... Full story
• Henry & Kerry Zenich wrote: We would like to thank and acknowledge Deri Frazee and Jennifer Seher for their work at organizing a Thanksgiving Dinner in Sisters. Thank you also to Sisters Community Church for allowing the use of their facility. It was so nice to see so many volunteers come together for this event! Several fathers and their sons working side by side, local chefs, a Sisters High School teacher and several of her students. We were touched and so very... Full story
The legacy of Sisters yoga teacher Myra Lani is enshrined in a new facility at Sisters Athletic Club. SAC opened the new Myra Lani Mind-Body Studio last month. The new facility, located in the building adjacent to the club but accessible through an enclosed walkway, will host a range of classes in time slots that are more convenient for patrons. Classes run six days a week. Classes are free to members and others can participate for a fee, according to SAC owner and manager... Full story
I love the Christmas season in our small town of tiny lights and big hearts. It starts with the annual lighting of the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving, when the city park is packed with happy faces, regardless of the weather. That is followed the next day by the quintessential small-town parade, complete with dogs of every size decked out in Christmas greens and jingle bells, most notably the expected pack of corgis pulling their wagon. Santa closes out the... Full story
A kitchen fire was quickly extinguished when the fire sprinkler system activated and put out a fire at 555 N. Larch St. in Sisters last week. Occupants were frying food on the kitchen range in high temperature oil and then left the kitchen for a brief time, according to statements from the residents. Residents were then alerted to the smoke alarm sounding. When the residents returned to the kitchen they saw three-foot flames above their frying pan. The fire only activated one sprinkler which extinguished the fire before... Full story
When I was a kid growin' up on the farm in Connecticut, my uncles and I had a tradition of going waterfowl hunting early Thanksgiving morning. When we had our limit in black ducks - the East Coast equivalent of our mallards - we'd come home in mid-afternoon, clean our ducks and prepare them for my grandmother and her daughters (one of whom was my mom) to cook. We'd sit down to our waterfowl meal - along with home-grown veggies, fresh-baked bread and home-made ice cream laced w... Full story
The City of Sisters continues to hone the details of changes to its code for transient merchant licensing. At a workshop last month, financial officer Lynn Fujita-Conrads took input from city councilors on proposed changes to the code. Any changes will have to go through a public hearings process and be formally approved by the council. Confusion over code created contention recently, especially over an application by Celia Hung for a temporary-use permit for events on a... Full story
