News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The Locust/Highway 20 roundabout is set to move forward in 2023-24 — along with many other ODOT roundabout projects throughout Central Oregon. In June of 2022, $5 million was added to the construction budget along with $250,000 from the City of Sisters for preliminary design for the roundabout. ODOT is advancing funds to maintain the 2024 construction due to halts in the timeline due to COVID and supply-chain issues. The Locust Avenue roundabout is part of the 2024-2027 S... Full story
A couple’s first kiss is memorable, but for Alissa and James Cowan, theirs was unforgettable. They met at a church conference in Redmond — James was setting up the stage lighting when he saw Alissa’s silhouette. Tripping over cables in his scramble to find out who she was, he tracked her down and they exchanged information. Several phone calls and emails later, James made the trip from Sisters to Las Vegas to visit Alissa for a week. Their first dates included dancing by... Full story
Junior outside hitter Gracie Vohs has verbally committed to play for St. Mary’s College of California, and will officially sign with the college the fall of her senior year. Vohs started to play organized volleyball in second grade and has played ever since. Former Sisters High School (SHS) players were a big part of her decision to play the sport. Vohs shared early memories of her high school idols: “My old babysitter, Kendra Sitz (former SHS student and volleyball pla... Full story
This is the story of a kind, caring young man, Connor Lake, who died by suicide in November of 2019. He left behind a shocked, grieving family and countless friends. But this story is also about his family and the gratitude, forgiveness, and blessings found in sorrow. If you’re having thoughts of suicide or struggling from the loss of someone you love who died suddenly, there are resources available to you. As sad as it is, this is a story of hopefulness. Anyone can have thoughts of suicide, but we may not know who those p... Full story
Beer-and-winter-weather-lovers gathered at the Suttle Lake Lodge last weekend for days filled with beer tasting, campfires, plenty of snow, and a little Central Oregon sunshine. The Suttle Lake Lodge hosted its fourth annual Winter Beer Fest at the Lodge and throughout the lodge property. Twenty different Oregon breweries brought their best beers for patrons to try, highlighting their winter beers as well as any new beer they were excited about featuring. The fest was three da... Full story
While the country experiences its traditional college basketball March Madness this month, Sisters Movie House is putting its own spin on things with a “March MADness” theme. In this case, the “MAD” stands for “Music – and Adventure.” Each Tuesday night during the month, the theater will debut a special, one-night-only event film, focusing on outdoor adventure or music. The series kicks off with the “Women’s Adventure Film Tour 2023” featuring footage of extraordinary women across the globe — just ahead of Int... Full story
The Sisters Post of the American Legion has a new commander. Charles White, a veteran himself, is striving to reach the youth community in Sisters. The American Legion started in 1919 in France with World War I veterans getting together to help each other back into post-war life. The American Legion was officially chartered by the U.S. Congress in 1919. According to the American Legion national website: “Membership swiftly grew to over 1 million, and local posts sprang up a... Full story
Many of us are old enough to remember the hit classic “Big Yellow Taxi” by 10-time Grammy winner, Joni Mitchell, whom Rolling Stone called “one of the greatest songwriters ever.” Two lines by the Canadian songwriter are indelibly etched in folk music. The first — “They paved paradise, put up a parking lot,” feels like a metaphor for the tension one feels when walking around town these days. Sisters Country residents are concerned about planned or proposed development... Full story
The brilliant luminaries that shine so brightly during winter evenings are beginning to slip into the western sky, a sure sign that a change of season is at hand. To celebrate the arrival of spring, this month we are featuring the interesting constellation of Coma Berenices. Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) is a dim collection of stars located in the northern sky sandwiched between Leo on its western border and Boötes to the east. To spot it, look for the c... Full story
Senior Ben Cooper capped his wrestling career at Sisters High School with a runner-up finish at the OSAA 3A Wrestling Championships held Friday, February 24 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. Cooper’s finish is the highest at the state tournament in Sisters High School history. A snowstorm in Portland made Cooper’s path to the championship match different than anticipated. The storm hit hard on Wednesday, and wreaked havoc on traffic throughout the Portland area, for... Full story
The Outlaws started their week on Wednesday, February 22 with a 41-37 win on the road against Neah-Kah-Nie in the first round of the 3A State Playoffs. Three days later they traveled to Tigard to take on the No.1-ranked Westside Christian Eagles, and fell with a final score of 62-43. In Tuesday’s action the game went back and forth for the first four minutes of play with the Tigard Pirates holding several one-point leads. With 3:57 left in the period, Jessey Murillo hit a free-throw to tie the game 7-7. From there the O... Full story
An affordable apartment housing project in Sisters is continuing to move forward. The Sisters City Council received an update from Community Development Director Scott Woodford and Principal Planner Matthew Martin regarding the rezone of Heavenly Acres at last week’s City Council meeting. The rezone was approved by the Planning Commission last week (See “Rezoning approved for housing development,” The Nugget, February 22). The City Council’s public hearing regarding the rez... Full story
The Sisters High Nordic ski team completed its season at the Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing Association-Nordic (OISRAN) State Championships held February 24-25 at Mt. Bachelor. Ella Bartlett finished in the top quarter, in 20th place among 82 racers, in Friday’s five-kilometer skate race in a time of 19:59.4. Nevaeh McAfee placed 64th in 27:59. Neve Gerard of Bend High School won the race handily in a time of 14:35.6, nintety seconds ahead of runner-up Piper Widmer, also o... Full story
Sheryl Yeager runs the aviation program at Sisters High School (SHS). Yeager has been teaching for 29 years and teaching aviation classes at SHS for seven. Over the past summer Sisters Aviation experienced some challenges which concluded in the program no longer being able to fly. Although classes never stopped at Sisters High School, the opportunity to take flight lessons at Sisters Eagle Airport was no longer an option. Aviation students were forced to drive to Bend to get f... Full story
The Sisters High School Jazz Band focuses on making community connections as well as musical ones, and the festival they attended last month embodied that ethic. The band visited West Salem to compete in the 3A division for its eighth annual Jazz Festival. The band had been working towards this competition for about two months, and felt prepared. With 15 members attending the event, the band was small but mighty. The group performed four musical pieces, playing for 20 minutes... Full story
Jeff Lake is Connor Lake’s father. He’s had his share of hardships and loss; from learning he’d been adopted, to losing a parent, divorce, and facing a drinking problem. It took time for him to realize blessings can be found in pain. That hard-won wisdom came in the aftermath of feeling swallowed by grief, resentment, and anger. With support from mentors, Lake realized destructive reactions only made matters worse. He learned that a faith-based mindset, giving over his pain to... Full story
I feel a bit nervous writing my first letter to The Nugget’s editor in about 25 years. When I was a student at Sisters Elementary School I decided to share my feelings about the Space Age gas station that, at the time, was a new business in town. I voiced what appeared to be popular opinion at the time, as Jim Cornelius responded to my pre-adolescent missive decrying a brand I perceived to be incongruous with our small town’s “feel” with a flattering, though I assume not serious, job offer. My younger self did not contrib... Full story
Love, affirm, and accept our youth To the Editor: As a member of the LGBTQ+ community and longtime Sisters resident, I read with dismay the February 22 letter to the editor in opposition to the support of transgender children. They point to the language of a previous letter as being “manipulative,” while referring to transgender people and identity as being a “devastating cultural development.” Pot, meet Kettle. This is not some “newfangled thing” that the kids are doing. Trans people, like all the other groups in the LGBT... Full story
In Rob Overstreet’s new office at Coldwell Banker Bain Realty in Sisters, there’s a poster with a quote from the great American man of letters, Mark Twain: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.” That’s a statement Overstreet lives by. When he dreams of doing something — he does it. Back in the 1970s, that... Full story
When we open our eyes, are we perceiving reality? Why did we fail to agree on the color of “The Dress” that went viral in 2015? Have you ever glanced at a ticking clock and noticed the second-hand suddenly freezes for a split second? Neuroscience research suggests that the brain evolved to make rapid, best-guesses about the objects in our environment, rather than create a one-to-one representation of the world. Through stories and demonstrations, Dr. Mark Pitzer will dis... Full story
It seems that we are chasing our tails in this ongoing concern about Sisters growth with endless meetings and letters to the editor that accomplish nothing. On one hand, we have a City Council and Planning Commission who are making the attempt to abide by the state land use laws, while on the other hand we have a majority of citizens who feel something is desperately wrong in how we are going about keeping Sisters the special place that all of us feel it is. The City Council and its Planning Commission legitimately say their... Full story
Sheriff (ret.) Lester W. Stiles passed away January 6, at his home in Caldwell, Idaho, from a series of non-COVID related lung issues. He was born December 7, 1945 in Pensacola, Florida, where his father, Marine Captain William Robert Stiles, was teaching hand-to-hand combat. June Stiles was Les’ mother. As a child and with his sisters, Laura and Donna, the family lived in Hartford, Connecticut, Little Rock, Arkansas, Charlotte, North Carolina, Houston, Texas, Joliet, I... Full story
Lynn (Audrain) Berg was born in Prineville but was raised in Lebanon and spent most of her young adult life in the Willamette Valley. In 1994 she followed her eldest daughter to Central Oregon and over the next few years the rest of the Audrain family followed suit until basically the entire family lived within 25 miles of each other. She opened The Barbershop in Sisters in 2000 until she moved it to her home in 2010, where she continued barbering until she retired several... Full story
Sylvia Lee Reinhardt of Sisters has a new residence in heaven as of January 16, after a long battle with cancer. Sylvia was predeceased by her husband, Vern Reinhardt, and her son, Steve Reinhardt. She has left behind her brother and sister-in-law, Wayne and Kathy Kerley; her daughters, Linda Wheatley (George), Christal Valdez (Jorge), and her daughter-in-law, Terrie Reinhardt. She also leaves behind her grandchildren, Jay, Dusty, Jordyn, Cameron, Eva, Jilly, Ross, Kevin, and... Full story
The Fourth Annual Suttle Lodge Winter Beer Festival is on tap for Friday, February 24 - Sunday, February 26, noon to 5 p.m. each day, on the shores of Suttle Lake. This Bavarian-inspired outdoor festival offers a full weekend of fun under the pines of the Deschutes National Forest with 25-plus craft breweries, food, live music, and cozy winter lodge vibes, all benefiting CASA, which supports children. Suttle Lodge’s six rustic cabins will be transformed into mini-pubs serving... Full story
