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Sisters author pens lighthearted tale
You might assume a novelist with a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award adorning her shelf writes mainly about romance. But Sisters author Melody Carlson considers women's contemporary... — Updated 3/19/2024 Full story
A new four-letter word?
Back in the mid-1990s I stopped calling my sandals “thongs.” Because none of us wants to be like that guy to whom “The Princess Bride” character Inigo Montoya said, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.... — Updated 8/29/2023 Full story
C4C rounds up Community Builders
A growing group of individuals and organizations engaged in addressing emerging issues and needs in Sisters Country gathered at the new Wakefield Inn on March 15. The monthly meeting of Community Builders, facilitated by Citizens4Community... — Updated 3/28/2023 Full story
Middle schoolers launch Mission Possible to aid houseless
“If you want to see hope, stop and take a look at these girls,” Sisters Area Director of Young Life Shannon Miller says. Miller is blown away, not only by the ownership 39 middle sch... — Updated 12/13/2022 Full story
Writing for film makes author a happy camper
Sisters resident Melody Carlson began writing books with little more than a can-do attitude, a yellow legal pad, and a dream. Thirty years and over 300 published books later, Carlson has long... — Updated 4/12/2022 Full story
Sisters author hopes to draw hearts home
Our homes are more than the sum of their square footage. And they’re more than a place to hang our hats. With her latest book, “The Unexpected Power of Home: Why We Need It More Than Eve... — Updated 10/22/2019 Full story
On pomp, circumstance and everyday heroes
This week when our youngest graduates alongside the rest of the Sisters High School Class of 2017, our family will count it a profound miracle. You see, early in her sophomore year we were forced to let that expectation go. Broadsided by... — Updated 6/6/2017 Full story
Local writers join forces in November
Bestselling author John Green once remarked that novel writing is "a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it." Indeed, many... — Updated 11/15/2016 Full story
Woman gives birth in car at Subway
One of Sisters' newest residents, Henley Lorenzen Frutos, entered the world on Friday in the front seat of a Chevy Tahoe. Her parents, Brooke and Damon Frutos, received her with joy and... — Updated 2/10/2015 Full story
Marked by Mexico
There's a character in C.S. Lewis' story, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," an awful, whiney boy named Eustace who turns into a dragon while thinking selfish thoughts. Panicked, Eustace tries... — Updated 7/29/2014 Full story
Teens find joy serving the homeless
Most teenagers regard their vacation days as precious and all too fleeting. But a group of Sisters High School students exchanged the last days of spring break for something they believe... — Updated 4/15/2014 Full story
Local firefighter takes up battle against cancer
As a fireman, Damon Frutos makes his living by saving lives. On Sunday afternoon, he'll exchange his fire hose for an acoustic guitar to help save the lives of children suffering with blood... — Updated 3/25/2014 Full story
Club musters help, hope for toddler
Moved to action by a cherubic little boy's medical crisis, members of the Sisters High School Sparrow Club are on a mission. Until April 1, the students are selling raffle tickets to raise fu... — Updated 3/18/2014 Full story
Children's art inspires Noah's Ark quilts
It took well over 40 days and 40 nights for a team of crafty Sisters women to complete a Noah's Ark-themed series of quilts, but it brought them a boatload of joy. The trio of quilts are now... — Updated 2/11/2014 Full story
Local author forays into tinsel town
Local novelist Melody Carlson has a new accomplishment to add to her vast list of writing credits: Carlson penned the companion novel to "Grace Unplugged," a faith-based feature film that rel... — Updated 10/1/2013 Full story
Dessert evening to benefit child sponsorship program
On African soil, Katie Keranen witnessed hardship and hopelessness. And on African soil she experienced her greatest personal tragedy. Now from her office in Sisters, as the new... — Updated 9/24/2013 Full story
Stephanie King is poet, pianist, patriot
When Stephanie King stepped onto the bow of the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor earlier this month as conductor of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Choir, she knew... — Updated 7/23/2013 Full story
Quilting project changes lives
Can a single quilt save the world? One colorful homemade quilt, hand-carried eight years ago by Sisters Country resident Janet Storton to a Ugandan village where women are a marginalized... — Updated 7/9/2013 Full story
Students engage community to help a family in need
Eight-month-old Abel Bloss smiles all the time "unless he's in pain," says his mother, Misty, of Sisters. In his short life, Abel has endured three major surgeries to correct a dangerous congenital condition, and his family is facing down... — Updated 4/16/2013 Full story
Whipps spreads lifesaving message
When good kids engage in risky behavior, and their friends keep it a secret, the consequences can be deadly. Just ask Sisters resident Penny Whipps. Four years ago, Penny received a phone... — Updated 3/12/2013 Full story
Carmichaels earn achievement award
Long-time Sisters Country residents Bill and Nancie Carmichael traveled to Costa Mesa, California, last week to accept a Career Achievement Award from Vanguard University. Both Bill and... — Updated 2/12/2013 Full story
Students seek to help seniors
If you're a senior citizen in need of physical help around your house, or if you know someone who is, now is a great time to speak up. A group of Sisters High School upperclassmen are at the ready, waiting to take your call. In an undertakin... — Updated 12/18/2012 Full story
Local author grants wish for sick teen
Imagine you're a teenager and you're granted one wish, any wish - what would it be? For an 18-year-old aspiring writer from Texas battling a deadly disease, it was to meet her favorite... — Updated 12/11/2012 Full story
Sisters grad has adventurous stint with AmeriCorps
During 10 months of duty aiding communities across the country through AmeriCorps, Sisters High School graduate Hillary Johnson saw places and met faces that are now forever etched in her... — Updated 4/3/2012 Full story
Popular author of young adult books visits Sisters Middle School
What does it take to become one of those successful authors whose books grace library shelves? Sisters Middle School students can answer that question with some authority, thanks to Wendelin... — Updated 3/13/2012 Full story
