The Nugget Newspaper - News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

Karissa Bilderback is running for one of two open spots on the Sisters School Board that will be on the May election ballot this year. Bilderback graduated from Sisters High School (SHS) in... — Updated 3/28/2023 Full story

Sisters Elementary School third graders put their reading skills to the test in the Oregon Battle of the Books regional competition March 11 in Madras. This is the first time ever that an... — Updated 3/21/2023 Full story

The Sisters City Council officially adopted their new set of goals for the 2023/24 fiscal year in a meeting that was held Wednesday, March 8. The Council discussed the goals in a workshop on... — Updated 3/14/2023 Full story

The Heavenly Acres Rezone project took another step forward last week in a public hearing before the Sisters City Council. This rezone project in the neighborhood where many Sisters churches... — Updated 3/14/2023 Full story

The City of Sisters has a park plan that encompasses all the parks within city limits, with plans for future use, improvements, and additions of new parks. There hasn’t been an update to t... — Updated 3/14/2023 Full story

The Sisters School District (SSD) is set to seek a fifth renewal of the local option tax levy. The local option renewal has been ongoing for 24 years, providing essential funding for the... — Updated 3/8/2023 Full story

Biochar is a fuel management practice that is taking the fire and science world by storm. A workshop on the use of biochar in our forests, on our farms, and more is coming to Sisters. The... — Updated 3/8/2023 Full story

Sisters Elementary School (SES) celebrated reading last week, with local author Joyce Burk Brown, who read her and co-author Linda Wolff’s children’s book, “The Magic in Listening.” The aut... — Updated 3/7/2023 Full story

Wellhouse Church offers Christian education to children and students in Sisters. They began serving the youth of Sisters in Christian education in 2020. “We started in pre-K and started e... — Updated 3/7/2023 Full story

The Locust/Highway 20 roundabout is set to move forward in 2023-24 — along with many other ODOT roundabout projects throughout Central Oregon. In June of 2022, $5 million was added to the c... — Updated 3/3/2023 Full story

Sisters would pay closer attention to housing and aligning its development code with its comprehensive plan under new goals proposed for 2023-24. The Sisters City Council is entering the new... — Updated 3/1/2023 Full story

Beer-and-winter-weather-lovers gathered at the Suttle Lake Lodge last weekend for days filled with beer tasting, campfires, plenty of snow, and a little Central Oregon sunshine. The Suttle La... — Updated 2/28/2023 Full story

The Sisters Post of the American Legion has a new commander. Charles White, a veteran himself, is striving to reach the youth community in Sisters. The American Legion started in 1919 in... — Updated 2/28/2023 Full story

An affordable apartment housing project in Sisters is continuing to move forward. The Sisters City Council received an update from Community Development Director Scott Woodford and Principal... — Updated 2/28/2023 Full story

The Locust/Highway 20 roundabout is set to move forward in 2023-24 — along with many other ODOT roundabout projects throughout Central Oregon. In June of 2022, $5 million was added to t... — Updated 2/21/2023 Full story

Joan Warburg, principal of Sisters Elementary School, was this year’s recipient of the Sisters Branch of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post 8138 Educator of the Year award. The award recogni... — Updated 2/14/2023 Full story

At the end of last month, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s office responded to a drunk and disorderly call at Takoda’s in Sisters (see “Man arrested, threats assessed,” The Nugget, Februar... — Updated 2/14/2023 Full story

The Sisters Elementary School (SES) teachers and staff are making strides to increase literacy and reading levels at the elementary level, particularly in kindergarten and first grade.... — Updated 2/14/2023 Full story

Jean Nelson-Dean has been working with federal natural resource agencies for close to 20 years. Her journey started in archaeology and quickly evolved into combining her love for the forest... — Updated 1/31/2023 Full story

Sisters School District (SSD) is looking forward to the next two years and the state budget that will be proposed mid-2023, determining the funding for schools for the 2023-2025 biennium.... — Updated 1/17/2023 Full story

Amy Yoder, 2011 Sisters High School (SHS) graduate, has combined her love for the outdoors with her love for science in working for the USGS (United States Geological Survey) as a... — Updated 1/11/2023 Full story

Jeff Tryens grew up on the East Coast, and worked in Washington D.C. and Massachusetts as everything from a policy consultant to a deputy director of program activities for national public... — Updated 12/20/2022 Full story

The Sisters School District (SSD) has been partnering with University of Oregon graduate students looking at possibilities for reconfiguration and reuse of the current elementary school... — Updated 12/20/2022 Full story

Molly Baumann wears many different hats in her career and life: mom, wife, and Forest Service employee, as well as secretary for the Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) board of... — Updated 12/14/2022 Full story

The Sisters School District (SSD) has quite a few new programs and updates that were presented to the school board in last week’s meeting. Students from Rima Givot’s biology classes pre... — Updated 12/14/2022 Full story