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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 Elementary School is full of students and the school board is pondering options. photo by Jim Cornelius

Elementary school is getting crowded
It's getting crowded at Sisters Elementary School and the Sisters School Board is considering what -- if anything -- to do about it.

Soaking rain turns Sisters soggy
For a day or so, it looked like winter.

Multiple wrecks on Highway 20 mar weekend
Two serious crashes and multiple small wrecks littered Highway 20 between Hoodoo and Suttle Lake on Sunday, December 12.

City Hall packed for McDonald's appeal
More than 70 citizens packed City Hall at last week's appeal hearing on a proposed McDonald's restaurant at the west end of Sisters.

Concert conjures holiday spirit
If any of the 400-plus members of Sunday's audience at the eighth annual Rotary Magical Voices of Christmas weren't in Christmas spirit before the show they must have left the Sisters High School auditorium humming a Christmas melody.

Sisters schools get their annual report cards
One went up, one went down and the other stayed the same. That's a Goldilocks version of Sisters schools results on the state "report cards" for 2003-04, issued by the Oregon Department of Education last week.

Town Hall meeting to tackle education funding
Central Oregon parents, students, educators and others will gather in Sisters for a Town Hall meeting to explore ways to better fund local schools.

Sisters area interface residents informed of fire standards
Sisters area residents living in the fire-prone forestland-urban interface received information on fuels reduction measures and a self-certification form from the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) last week.

Young Sisters boxer finds focus in the ring with boxing club
Kid hits his teenage years, has a rough time, starts copping an attitude, gets into petty scrapes with the law.

Sisters vacation home honored by national magazine
Tucked away in a quiet corner of Tollgate is a delightful vacation rental log home, The Cabin, which has found its way to national recognition via the magazine Country Comfort.

Castillo proposes report card changes
When her department issued this year's school report cards last week (see story), State Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo said "...it does not make sense for Oregon to have two completely different rating systems -- one from Oregon and one from Washington, D.C.