The Nugget Newspaper


Vol. XXIII No.26 - Deschutes County, Oregon

Last update: July 14, 1999

Sisters Guide

Sisters Schools

The Printed page

Sisters Chamber


Quilters revel in colorful show

Like the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, quilters came by the thousands to participate in Sisters' annual celebration of their craft.The 24th Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show was staged under blue and sunny skies that set off the 800 or so quilts hanging on the shops of town in an array of color that nearly overwhelmed the senses.It is impossible to know for sure how
Youth arrested for car theft

Travis James Gothberg, 15, of Sisters, landed in juvenile detention after he allegedly stole a pickup truck and rammed it through the fire gates in Crossroads.

According to sheriff's office reports, Barclay Contractors employees reported a 1989 Ford pickup stolen from their yard on July 6.

On July 10, the truck reappeared at the yard with its front end damaged. A sheriff's deputy investigated and found shoe prints and distinctive bicycle tracks by the truck.

After hearing about a youth who had been seen loitering in the area on a bicycle, the deputy allegedly deduced that the youth described was Gothberg and that he might be involved in the truck theft and criminal mischief to the Crossroads fire gates.

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Desertronics returns to production
Desertronics is up and running again in Sisters, producing circuit boards and providing job training for
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Leave fawns alone

People who pick up fawns in the woods may be sentencing them to death. Tracy Leonhardy of Sisters takes care of orphaned fawns for the Oregon Department of Fish and

Wildlife. So far this season, she has received nine animals. Seven have died. Four of the fawns were found by people walking in the woods. These well-meaning folks mistakenly
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Dunn goes to prison
Russell Eugene Dunn of Sisters chose prison over substance abuse treatment and will spend the next 44 months behind bars.Dunn was sentenced last March to two
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Wreck kills one

Lawrence Jerome Doherty, 83, died when his 1929 Ford was struck by a 1991 Jeep Cherokee driven by Jason Gerard Schell of Springfield. According to the Oregon State

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Hundreds remember Sally Leavitt
Some 250 neighbors and friends gathered at Sisters High School on Monday, July 12, to celebrate the
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