The Nugget Newspaper - News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

Divorce. Homelessness. Two Sisters women, Mary Maiden and Tricia Johnson, don't need to be told that life is hard and bad stuff happens. Each has been struck by personal tragedy; each has... — Updated 3/29/2011 Full story

Nine University of Minnesota students opted to spend their coveted spring break wielding shovels and paintbrushes for Sisters Habitat for Humanity last week. And, despite a 33-hour drive to... — Updated 3/29/2011 Full story

When the going gets tough, you don't have to look very far to find women who get going. They live in town; they live in Tollgate. They shuttle kids to school and sport; they stand beside you... — Updated 3/15/2011 Full story

The jury's in: The Outlaw Players have scored another win - this time mastering the sophisticated courtroom drama "Twelve Angry Jurors," which closed Friday night at Sisters High School.... — Updated 2/22/2011 Full story

Once upon a time, members of the local business community pulled out all the stops to treat a brave Central Oregon girl like a princess for several days and to make her every wish come true.... — Updated 2/15/2011 Full story

Imagine a world where every little girl owned at least one dress. That's the vision that motivated 15 local ladies to thread their needles and get to work last week; together they sewed over... — Updated 1/25/2011 Full story

Daniel Pite has a message for other families walking the dark road of childhood cancer: take heart. When the Pite family - in their bleakest hours - needed someone to go to battle for them,... — Updated 1/18/2011 Full story

Two days before Thanksgiving, Lynn Gilmore and her younger brother Tim Keeton lay on separate gurneys in pre-op at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), with just a curtain between the... — Updated 1/11/2011 Full story

Perhaps Niesje Schilperoort should have been voted the Class of 2008's Most Likely to be a Humanitarian Globe-trotter. As part of Youth With A Mission's (YWAM) leadership training program... — Updated 1/4/2011 Full story

Three years ago graduates of Sisters High School's Class of 2008 set out in a number of different directions. So where are they now? All over the world. What they've all gained is a stronger... — Updated 1/4/2011 Full story

'Twas a fortnight before Christmas and at the Habitat store some magic was happening behind their closed doors. Nineteen children were rapt and each carried a list, in search of the thing... — Updated 12/14/2010 Full story

What's Christmas without cold prune soup (lunne) or rutabaga casserole (lanttu laatikko)? Finnish foreign exchange student Tommi Soittila will soon find out; this will be the first Christmas... — Updated 12/7/2010 Full story

Nov. 9, 2010, Sisters, Oregon: Do you ever have moments in your life when you can see that many things in your experience have prepared you for just this moment? Now is one of those moments... — Updated 11/30/2010 Full story

A sign to the right of the front door bids "WELCOME" while another sign to the left commands "KEEP OUT." The landmark residence once known as Conklin's Guest House - treasured by Sisters... — Updated 11/23/2010 Full story

Like many people, Doug Hull, 43, dreams of doing some traveling in his retirement. But his dream doesn't involve a cruise ship, a swimsuit or golf cleats. Instead, Hull would prefer to be en... — Updated 11/2/2010 Full story

Five thousand miles away, in the small German village of Ensdorf, foreign exchange applicant Yannic Kolz learned he would be spending much of this school year living with an American family... — Updated 10/19/2010 Full story

Seventeen-year-old Cheng "Angel" Peng stepped off a plane from China last month, on a student foreign exchange program with Sisters High School (SHS), marking another step in a journey which... — Updated 10/12/2010 Full story

At 9 years old, Kelsey May read J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and it lit a fire in her. "I wanted to write a cool story like that," said May, a senior at Sisters High... — Updated 9/7/2010 Full story

When Rick Johnson graduated from high school in Houston, Texas, his choir teacher posed a compelling question: where did he see himself in 10 years? His answer: living in Oregon, married,... — Updated 8/31/2010 Full story

For Tori DeLeone, this summer was never a blank canvas. The Sisters High School senior worked hard all spring to be accepted into an elite pre-college art residency program and she had a... — Updated 8/31/2010 Full story

Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Seth Norman is looking down the road at a bright future from behind the wheel of a newly restored 1976 Chevy Nova. The non-profit organization, which... — Updated 8/10/2010 Full story

Sporting brightly colored cleats, shin guards and wide smiles, fifty-three Sisters youngsters honed their soccer skills last week under some expert coaches who talked kind of funny. United... — Updated 8/3/2010 Full story

Renee Wilson of Sisters knows about breast cancer all too well. "I was diagnosed six days before my 41st birthday," recalls Wilson. "I was a single parent at the time so my first thought was... — Updated 8/3/2010 Full story