The Nugget Newspaper - News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

The Sisters girls cross-country team completed its surprising season with an eighth-place finish at the OSAA 4A Championships, held Saturday, November 6, at Lane Community College in Eugene.... Full story

In the final OSAA coaches’ poll of the season, the Sisters Outlaws boys cross-country team was not listed in the top 10. So how then did it turn out that the group finished second at the OSAA... Full story

Sisters Coffee Company is launching its third retail location in the heart of Bend’s Old Mill District, beginning October 2. Established in 1989, the local coffee roaster will be taking o... Full story

Wendy Vernon wrote… Almost one year ago our daughter, Lala Debari, was killed in a car accident on Fire Road 15. She was a passenger in a car driven by a friend and had left home 10... Full story

One of the great challenges in coping with terrible events like the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is finding a way to appropriately memorialize the fallen. It fell to Sisters... Full story

Central Oregon is known for its plethora of trails and backroads used by runners, cyclists, and other recreationalists, but surprisingly a 100-mile foot race has never been part of the... Full story

A sheriff’s search and rescue team came to the aid of an injured hiker near the Pole Creek Trailhead southwest of Sisters last weekend. Deputy Shane Zook, assistant search and rescue c... Full story

Furry Friends Foundation has been blanketed in quilts over the past few weeks. After a Facebook post by The Quilt Pattern Magazine, Furry Friends began receiving small boxes and plump padded... Full story

A traffic stop in downtown Sisters in the early hours of Thursday, August 19, led to the arrest of three people from Salem and the seizure of more than four pounds of methamphetamine and... Full story

One hundred and fifty quilts on display at the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District Community Hall for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS) captured the essence of iconic PBS painter Bob... Full story

Firefighters are making progress building containment lines to hold the 5,723-acre Grandview Fire in the areas to the east and south where homes are threatened. Governor Kate Brown enacted... Full story

A 42-year-old man was cited for reckless burning after his cooking fire escaped and spread into the forest near Sisters. On July 1 at approximately 10:47 a.m., the Deschutes County... Full story

Central Oregon’s extreme heatwave is expected to continue for at least another week. When temperatures reach 90s and enter into the triple digits, it becomes more important to take care of y... Full story

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, a newly evolved rock-and-roll creature emerged from the woods and swamps of the American South. Fusing the blues, country music, gospel, and British I... Full story

More than 50 cyclists started a journey on Saturday at the Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) Coffield Center and rode the Oregon Scenic Bikeway over Highway 242 to the top of the old... Full story

Have you heard the news? Live dance performance is back in Sisters. Some 110 dancers aged three to 18 hit the streets with the latest edition last Saturday, June 19, in Sisters Dance Academy... Full story

The Sisters Dance Academy was able to hold a live performance on Thursday, May 27, at Sisters High School featuring the studio’s competitive dance teams. The dance academy now has four c... Full story

You just have to admit, those harlequin drakes are a showpiece. They look like they were posing for Roy Low, a long-time birder of Waldport, when he found them all ganged up on the rocks on... Full story

Following a successful community fundraising effort, senior banners last week began flying high at Sisters High School and soon will be hung on downtown lampposts to celebrate graduation... Full story

After joining the Seed to Table team in January, Hannah Joseph is building bridges in Sisters Country. Her role includes coordinating and teaching food education classes at Sisters... Full story

Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District was dispatched to a structure fire at 11:11 p.m. on Thursday, April 22, in Squaw Creek Canyon Estates northwest of Sisters. First-arriving units found a... Full story

Sisters artist and author Dennis McGregor has finished the sequel to “You Stole My Name,” a collection of paintings and verses about animals with shared names. The new book, “You Stole My Na... Full story

A 58-year-old man from Madras suffered a sudden medical emergency while driving into Sisters on Thursday morning, causing him to lose consciousness and crash his truck and trailer. The... Full story

The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District (SCSFD) has promoted volunteer firefighters Ben Duda, Travis Bootes, and Rachel Ulm to the position of fire lieutenant. A formal promotion ceremony was... Full story

The Oregon American Legion conducted its 2021 state-level oratorical contest last month at Santiam Post 51, Lebanon, Oregon and awarded $11,000 in scholarships to the top-placing high school... Full story