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The town’s third March for Hope took place on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Students and their siblings, accompanied by a handful of adults and dogs, walked down the town’s main sidewalks. They carried hand-painted signs with messages about their dreams: peace, smiles, equality, and homes for everyone. Seven-year-old Ani Orange carried rainbow flags and a handmade sign reading “Equality 4 All.” A second grader at Sisters Elementary School, she learned about Dr. King at school... Full story
The Sisters Park & Recreation District is accepting applications from those who would like to fill one vacant budget committee position. Applications should be submitted online by February 10. The board will conduct interviews of applicants and make a formal appointment at the February 28 business meeting beginning at 4:30 p.m. To be eligible for appointment, the candidate: 1. Must live within the Sisters Park & Recreation District boundaries. 2. Must not be an officer or employee of the Sisters Park & Recreation District.... Full story
The Outlaws boys and girls ski teams took first-place honors in the giant slalom held at Hoodoo Ski Area on Wednesday, January 18, and three days later posted first-place finishes at Willamette Pass Ski Area. In Wednesday’s giant slalom at Hoodoo, skiers raced in stormy weather with lots of new snow, and both the boys and girls teams emerged as first-place winners. The combined run one and run two overall first- place winner of the day on the boys’ side was Joe Barnes of Phi... Full story
The Outlaws’ Nordic ski team helped host the “Hoodoo Night Sprints” race on Monday, January 16, which employed a new spin on racing format. Each individual competitor took part in three rounds of skiing on a set course of about 800 meters against a mix of competition. Points were awarded in each round based on place, according to Coach Jeff Husmann. “During the course of the race we discovered a flaw in the plan in that some kids, including two of our own, Spencer Tisdel and Corbin Fredland, ended up being in the last he... Full story
The Lady Outlaws had another rough week on the hardwood: a 43-21 loss at home to Pleasant Hill on Wednesday, January 18, and a 45-29 loss to Creswell at home on Friday. In Tuesday’s game at home against Pleasant Hill (PH), the game was decided in the first quarter. Sisters got down 0-16 in the first period and never recovered. The Lady Outlaws got off to a slow start, and when they did get some good open shots they couldn’t get them to fall. They also turned the ball over numerous times. The Lady Billies have some ski... Full story
The boys basketball squad fell 55-41 at home against Pleasant Hill on Wednesday, January 18, and at home two days later knocked off Creswell, the No. 1 ranked team in league (4-0) and the No. 6 ranked team in 3A, in an exciting 51-50 overtime win. Friday’s home game against Creswell was an exciting barn-burner to the end of regulation, which extended into overtime with the Outlaws edging out the Bulldogs by one. The Bulldogs started strong in the first quarter and the Outlaws quickly went down 5-10. Later, Mehkye Froehlich s... Full story
Sisters Woodlands has made its first three sales and construction is underway. The planned development in the rectangle of North Pine Street, West Barclay Drive, and Highway 20, features some 359 homes and 44,000 square feet of commercial and light industrial space. In its infancy, Sisters Woodlands was imagined and touted as a practical option for workforce housing. At the time, one of the project’s owners, Paul Hodge, was CEO of Laird Superfoods when Laird projected as m... Full story
Sisters Folk Festival is launching a brand-new music festival bringing progressive bluegrass and Americana music to two stages in June. Big Ponderoo will take place June 23-25, 2023 at Sisters Art Works and Three Creeks Brewing Co. production facility. The lineup includes The War and Treaty, The Travelin’ McCourys, Corb Lund, Margo Cilker, Jon Stickley Trio, Mile Twelve, Twisted Pine, Never Come Down, Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs, and FY5, with a full lineup announcement coming... Full story
A big heart in a little package might be just the right way to describe a Sisters resident who has contributed to the Sisters community for the 23 years she has called this place home. Annie Marland was one of the first to purchase a home in 2000 in The Pines, the 55-plus community located off McKinney Butte Road. Her neighbors refer to her as “The Historian,” because she’s been there since the beginning of the neighborhood. Her dad lived with her for the first four years... Full story
Brian David Owens stopped by The Nugget last Thursday to clear a couple of things up. Owens lives in the forest west of Ponderosa Lodge, and he was mentioned — by first name only — in Bill Bartlett’s story “Forest thinning reveals forest dwellings,” (The Nugget, January 18, page 1). He and his dog Dude came into the office, and we rang up Bill, and we all had a good conversation. Owens prefers that his full name be used. He wanted it understood that his frien... Full story
Contrasting classified scandals To the Editor: Before I sit down to write something I might seek to have published, I ask myself two questions: What point will I try to make, and who is my intended audience? In his opinion piece “Jammin’ in Joe’s garage” (The Nugget January 18, page 2), Mr. Cornelius fails to explain the first, and it is obvious what is the second. He explicitly promotes the notion that “both sides do it” (mishandle classified documents), as means of eliding the significant differences between the actions... Full story
Knowing the community you are working in on an intimate basis makes a big difference in law enforcement. That was the message that came across loud and clear in a two-night Citizens Academy open house hosted by the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) at the Sisters Fire District Community Hall on Wednesday and Thursday, January 18-19. Between 30 and 40 citizens turned out each night to get to know local deputies and to get a glimpse at how the DCSO operates. Everyone a... Full story
The controversial Sunset Meadows development can go forward — if developers meet conditions of approval. Woodhill Homes’ application for their Master Plan development Sunset Meadows, on a 12.92-acre property in the multi-family residential district (MFR) at 15510 McKenzie Highway on the west side of town, won approval — with conditions — from the Planning Commission at their January 19 meeting. The condition of approval requires the applicant to revise t... Full story
Good fences make good neighbors — so the saying goes. The Nugget’s story last week about the Forest Service mowing the underbrush in the Sisters woods, and thereby making homeless camps more visible, caused some readers to make contact in hopes of adding context to the story. One was Ashley Okura, one of the family owners of Ponderosa Lodge, the landmark motel at the Barclay/Highway 20 roundabout. Okura explained the long history of the new 1,700-lineal-foot fence b... Full story
Three City councilors were sworn in at the January 11 Council workshop. Returning councilors Michael Preedin and Gary Ross were elected to four-year terms and Susan Cobb to a two-year term. Following the oath of office, all five councilors received training on roles, protocols on public meetings, and records and ethics from the City attorneys of Bryant, Lovlien & Jarvis. City councilors reelected Michael Preedin to serve as mayor for the next two years, and Andrea Blum was... Full story
The first executive director of Explore Sisters, Scott Humpert, told The Nugget that the primary goal for the new destination management organization (DMO) is to sustain Sisters’ quality of livability by managing tourism to insure they attract “the right person at the right time in the right place.” Rather than simply promoting general tourism through broad marketing, the DMO’s messaging will work to attract certain kinds of tourist who value the small-town atmosphere and sur... Full story
Looking around Sisters Country and seeing standing water in many places might lead one to conclude that we’re inundated with water. Not really. While recent rains and snows are a welcome sign, and indeed there is some slight improvement to our years-long drought, the numbers say we have a long road ahead. Sisters Country is still clocking in at D2 (Severe Drought) as compared to a year ago on this date when we were recording D3 (Extreme). Just a few miles away, Bend remains a... Full story
If you have driven on North Pine Street, or the adjacent FS 100 Road spur, or along Highway 20 just west of the city limits, and the forest looks like somebody came in and mowed it one day — they did. Not in one day of course, but over a period of weeks. Suddenly the forest appears wide open, manicured even. The trees seem taller, more stately. The intent is to reduce fuels — dense underbrush — and is part of an ongoing, multi-year, forest-wide strategy to... Full story
As food insecurity reaches crisis levels in Central Oregon, Newport Avenue Market and Oliver Lemon’s shoppers and employees are bridging the gap, raising over $76,044 to provide food to fuel the local community. Throughout December, shoppers donated money to the Food for February fundraiser, and the 100 percent employee-owned markets matched the funds. The funds will be used to purchase groceries at wholesale cost for Family Kitchen of Bend, Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, S... Full story
A motorist driving down Cascade Avenue on Tuesday evening, January 17, spotted a person wearing a black ski mask trying to break into Lonesome Water Books. The citizen called 911 at about 6:15 p.m. According to Sgt. Jason Wall of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, as deputies responded to the area, Deschutes County 911 was advised that the person wearing the ski mask had gained entry to the store. When law enforcement arrived, the subject wearing the ski mask left the store, armed with a hatchet. A Deschutes County S... Full story
As 2022 ended, The Nugget ran a section honoring those who died in 2022. Men and women who mattered to the community, in both large and small ways. However, my mind immediately went to those who were left behind, the spouses, the children, the parents. Are they alone? Is someone reaching out to them? Is someone sharing their grief? Whose responsibility is it? Our culture of giving special attention to the deceased individual is honorable, but what about the surviving loved... Full story
According to Scott Crabtree, to get the best from our brain we must feed it with nutritious foods and rich information. In his presentation last Thursday morning at the Sisters Fire District Community Hall, sponsored by Citizens4Community (C4C), Crabtree gave an engaging, information-packed workshop, providing guidelines for better remembering. He used the visual concept of a “memory palace” in which each room represents one facet of memory assigned a vivid visual aid. Mem... Full story
In Sisters we live with a dramatic backdrop of Cascade mountains, close to the wilderness and its mysteries. But one character in the cast of characters of wild places is missing, and people are still out there looking for it. Is the wolverine, a solitary carnivore, gone from our mountains or could it return someday? A month before he passed away, our beloved friend, naturalist Jim Anderson, suggested a quest was still needed to follow a tale he had been intrigued with for... Full story
Sisters Country has its share of pests, from infiltrations of ants to tunneling voles in the grass to rodents getting into the garage or the house. Birds and bats can pose a problem. Pests can be a nuisance — and sometimes they can cause significant damage. Owner-operator Mike Larson has been in the pest control business in Central Oregon since 2002, and he’s developed an approach that goes way beyond period mitigation measures like spraying. “I’m more an integ... Full story
Erika Bolstad, a Portland-based journalist, followed the thread of family lore back to North Dakota to pick up the trail of her great-grandmother Anna, a homesteader in the early 1900s whose husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. Bolstad’s journey became her book “Windfall” — finished during a residency at Pine Meadow Ranch Center For Arts & Agriculture in Sisters. Bolstad returns to Sisters on Thursday, January 26, to share her work at Pauli... Full story
