| Current News | | Fires still burn around Sisters Country | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | Cool, wet weather over the weekend and into Monday helped clear out smoke that plagued Sisters last week. | | Council candidates forego campaign funding | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | Three candidates for Sisters City Council - Sharlene Weed, Wendy Holzman and Jacki Shepardson - are pledging to keep their campaign expenditures to a minimum and they don't want any campaign contributions. | | Asson
has hat in ring for council seat | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | David Asson is one of six candidates running for a seat on the Sisters City Council in the November 2 election. | | Rescuers pull deer from the drink | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | A deer in the swimming pool is not a good thing.
That's exactly what Melanie Petterson thought when her son Rory called her to say there was one in the pool at her home at the east end of the Sisters Airport.
"You have to be kidding!" she said.
"Nope, it's for real, mom," Rory confirmed. | |
| Business | | Hedrick has made a mark on Sisters | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | Sisters volunteer coordinator Karly Hedrick has earned a reputation as an effective community organizer in Sisters.
"She's an extraordinary individual," said Maret Pajutee, who has worked with Hedrick organizing volunteers for the National Forest Foundation (NFF) and the U.S. Forest Service. "She is very outgoing, organized, capable, responsible. It's a potent combination for a volunteer coordinator." | | Twelve apply for economic development manager job | | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | | As of the deadline on Friday, August 6, EDCO (Economic Development for Central Oregon) received 12 applications/résumés from people interested in the position of part-time economic development manager for Sisters, according to Erin Chaiet, EDCO operations manager. | | CEC authorizes
rate increase | | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | Central Electric Cooperative (CEC) board of directors authorized a 9.5 percent average increase in members' rates effective with the utility's October billings.
The move came on Thursday, August 19. | | Russell's Body Shop
opens in Sisters | | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | | The Sisters Country is awfully hard on vehicles. It's all too easy to back into a tree or run into a deer on the highway. | |
| Arts & Entertainment | | Western festival celebrates heritage | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | Folks in Sisters will celebrate the heritage of the West in the Sisters Western & Native American Arts Festival, September 4-5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Creekside City Park. | | Raffle guitar on display at book store | | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | | The Sisters Folk Festival is continuing the tradition of holding a drawing for a Breedlove guitar and Deering banjo at this year's festival. | | Salgado headlines finale of Ranch concert series | | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | | "Clean Getaway," the title of Curtis Salgado's latest release, says more about the man and his life than one could possibly imagine. Salgado, who finishes the "Live at the Ranch" Summer Concert Series at Black Butte Ranch Sunday, September 5, at 6 p.m., should know. | | Collector publishes gunfighter history | | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 | | As one of the nation's foremost authorities on Old West collectibles, Len Gratteri can now add the title "author" to his list of accomplishments with the printing of "William Sherod Robinson - Alias Ben Wheeler." | |
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| Schools | | Schools escape new round of cuts | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | The budget ax has fallen again. This time it missed the Sisters School District. A combination of stimulus monies from the federal government and a firm pledge from the governor and the Oregon State Legislature has given the school districts around the state, including Sisters, a little breathing room. | | New choir teacher invites aspiring singers | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | When Rick Johnson graduated from high school in Houston, Texas, his choir teacher posed a compelling question: where did he see himself in 10 years? His answer: living in Oregon, married, with children and a dog, inspiring young kids with music. | | Sisters scouts experience jamboree | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | Three sets of brothers from Sisters helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts this summer at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. They returned with tales of trading scout badges, seeing celebrities, visiting historical monuments and living through crazy rain and thunder storms. | | Student gets close look at top art school | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | For Tori DeLeone, this summer was never a blank canvas. The Sisters High School senior worked hard all spring to be accepted into an elite pre-college art residency program and she had a ticket for the East Coast. | |
| Sports | | Volleyball returns eight from '09 team | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | The Lady Outlaws volleyball team heads into the 2010 pre-season ready for battle with their minds set on defending their state title. | | Sawing error costs Green at Oregon State Fair | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | David Green of Sisters was the lumberjack to beat going into Friday's elimination round of the STIHL Timbersports Collegiate Championship on opening weekend of the Oregon State Fair in Salem. | | Boys soccer returns seasoned varsity squad | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | Sisters High School's boys soccer team returns 12 players to the varsity squad, and they'll be a force to be reckoned with this season. The Outlaws kick off their season at home against Cascade on Tuesday, September 7, with game time set for a 4:30 p.m. start. | | Outlaws football gears up for season ahead | | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | | The Outlaws football team will return 19 players to the team, including 10 starters. | |
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