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The contents of the on-line edition of The Nugget represent a selection among the stories that appear in the weekly print edition.

Sisters students and school officials celebrated the grand opening of Sisters' new high school with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, September 11. photo by Jim Cornelius

City, library consider school property
Sisters residents may soon be able to check out a book and drop off a ballot or pay their water bill with one stop.

Sisters dedicates new high school
More than 200 people, from babies to grandparents, helped Sisters school officials dedicate the community's new high school on a mild Thursday afternoon, September 11.

Firefighters work on mop-up, rehabilitation
Firefighters are mopping up inside fire lines and beginning to repair some of the damage done to the landscape in battling the B&B Fire west of Sisters.

Sisters businesses seek economic aid
The fire-related closure of Highway 20 from August 19 to August 31 choked off the main artery of Sisters commerce. Businesses from lodging to dining to retail felt the pinch.

Jazz Festival brought wide range of music
The Sisters Jazz Festival held in Sisters last weekend continued to expand its artistic palette to include many other types of music than the traditional jazz for which it originally became known.

Residents fight sewer charge
When retired residents Marilyn and Jack Kinsey built their home two years ago on South Maple Street, they paid $7,500 to hook up a septic system because their lot was not part of the city's 1997 sewer construction project, which served nearby residents.

Habitat homes get a lawn... plus
Members of the Lutheran Church from all over Central Oregon converged on Sisters on Saturday, September 13, to help finish two Habitat for Humanity houses.

Volunteers cooperate to make jazz fest swing
The musicians put the Sisters Jazz Festival crowds on the dance floor, but it's local volunters who roll out that dance floor -- and more besides.

McKinney Butte Road was ready for school
As promised, McKinney Butte Road was ready for traffic on the first day of school, Monday, September 15, but the school buses probably won't drive on it until next Monday.

Sisters man tops in sprint cars
Sisters drywall contractor Jim Helm lives a second life on the weekends. He follows his passion for sprint car racing, traveling with his crew and the car he owns to races in four western states and British Columbia.

Outlaws win home opener
A large and enthusiastic crowd cheered as the Sisters Outlaws football team crushed the Madras White Buffaloes 30-14 on Friday evening, September 12.

Sisters Oil Company getting a facelift
The corner of Fir Street and Cascade Avenue, downtown Sisters, is just about the center of town. The Sisters Oil Company has occupied a third of this prime downtown real estate, just up the block from Sisters City Hall.

Johnson relives Metolius history
Ninety-year-old Becky Johnson kept her audience rapt for nearly two hours at last week's Historical Society/Friends of Black Butte Ranch meeting, reliving her experiences living on 160 acres located near the Head of the Metolius.

B&B Complex Fire is expensive
The B&B Complex Fire is the second most expensive fire burning in the country today, costing $28 million from August 19 to date, according to fire officials.

Sisters riders survive Cycle Oregon
A "tribe" of riders from Sisters made it through the hundreds of miles of Cycle Oregon September 6-13, trekking through the Wallowas of Eastern Oregon.

Roughing it in the fire camp
Covered in soot and dried sweat, 1,000-plus firefighters return from a 15-hour work day of fighting the B&B Complex Fire. They line up outside of two tin trailers and wait for hours to use one of 30 shower stalls in the camp.

Red Cross volunteers aid in crisis
They sleep on cots. They pay their own way. They drive from all over the state to help those in need.

New middle school a big improvement
As the Sisters community dedicated its new high school last week, seven-tenths of a mile down the Old McKenzie Highway (Highway 242) toward town, Middle School Principal Lora Nordquist was busily preparing for the opening of her own "new" school, the remodeled former high school.

McGhehey homestarget first-time buyers
New roads are being paved this week as part of a $6.9-million project that will add 40 homes in a new Sisters subdivision called Park Place.