The Nugget Newspaper - News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

• Sisters High School Key Club, and friends, gathered comfort care supplies for people experiencing homelessness. The comfort items include toothbrushes, toothpaste, ChapStick, soap,... Full story

Jim was born in Oakland, California, to Doris and Webb Richards. He graduated from San Leandro High School in 1960 and later attended the California Maritime Academy. Jim graduated in 1963, w... Full story

Young people in Sisters who want to build their wrestling skills may want to check out the new Outlaw Mat Club. The club is open to boys and girls grades K-12; it is designed to introduce and... Full story

A nighttime blaze caused significant damage to an unoccupied home at Black Butte Ranch last Friday. Firefighters with the Black Butte Ranch Fire District responded to a report of a structure... Full story

Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District is currently accepting applications for the upcoming Spring Volunteer Firefighter Academy. Stations in Sisters, Camp Sherman and Squaw Creek Canyon Estates... Full story

Sisters and the Aspen Lakes Community recently lost a beloved resident. Pete, a male trumpeter swan and mate to Eloise, had to be humanely euthanized after battling a lethal infection. The... Full story

About 360,000 acres of private forestlands were among the million acres that burned in Oregon during the Labor Day wildfires. Over the next year or so, expect to see trucks carrying scorched... Full story

Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) is packing up its big tents and moving to October. The Festival has announced a permanent move away from the traditional festival weekend that could begin as... Full story

Sisters got its first decent winter snowfall last week as a storm that was supposed to provide just a dusting proved considerably more robust and blanketed town with better than four inches... Full story

The Sisters Dance Academy (SDA) has had its fair share of difficulties while coping with state-mandated shutdowns during COVID-19. The first shutdown the dance academy faced was in March... Full story

In the December 9 edition of The Nugget, photographer Jerry Baldock captured a fantastic photo of an eagle in flight labeled a “magnificent golden eagle.” Sorry Jerry, you got fooled by the... Full story

Registration is now open for winter sports at Bend-based nonprofit organization, Oregon Adaptive Sports (OAS). Offering individually tailored lessons for each athlete, OAS has winter-sports... Full story

Mid Oregon Credit Union has opened a new branch building in Sisters. Located off Highway 20 at 650 N. Arrowleaf Trail (next to McDonald’s), this full-service branch offers drive-up lanes w... Full story

Santa-Paws won’t be coming to Sisters this year. Furry Friends Foundation’s Pet Photos with Santa has been canceled for 2020 due to COVID-19. This annual event has been held for the past 15... Full story

A team from the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District came out to help Sisters Habitat for Humanity with a home repair project Friday, October 30. Habitat volunteer Dennis Mills led the team of... Full story

Editor’s note: Jim Anderson is all settled in in Eugene — and missing his readers. So… he submitted his first post-retirement column. Well, here we are in Eugene preparing to m... Full story

The Battelle Memorial Institute teamed with Sisters-based ISTAR, headed by Steven Peterzen, to perform the launch of a stratospheric balloon from Sisters Eagle Airport last week. Battelle is... Full story

Six volunteers are new members of Sisters Habitat for Humanity’s 1,000 Hour Club for having volunteered more than 1,000 hours of service. Three received the Lifetime Achievement Award for e... Full story

Sisters Folk Festival is dedicating their new visual arts gallery in the Sisters Artworks Building in honor of Cindy and Duncan Campbell. The dedication is set for Friday, October 23, with a... Full story

The work of two Sisters filmmakers has been selected for the BendFilm Festival. Nathan and Emily Woodworth bill “The Purse: A Dream in Two Acts,” as a surrealist/absurdist comedy film. “We... Full story

Rainfall across much of Sisters Country helped to scour away smoke for the first time in many days last Friday, and Sisters enjoyed a couple of days of good air quality. The return of blue sk... Full story

Sisters is reaching out to its neighbors across the mountains and trying to lend a helping hand. Paulina Springs Books and Sisters Coffee Company have partnered to put together a business fun... Full story

The team fighting the Lionshead Fire northwest of Sisters reported Tuesday morning that winds will be light and dense smoke will not dissipate to the degree expected. Temperatures will be in... Full story

The Sisters Ranger District is immediately expanding a forest closure to great portions of the Metolius area and the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness as a precaution against potential wildfire... Full story

West to northwest winds are expected on the Lionshead Fire to the northwest of Sisters today, blowing 6-10 mph with gust up to 15 mph. The easterly transport winds are carrying the smoke... Full story