| Sisters man arrested after pursuit | Darius Jamshid Tadjiki, 36, of Sisters, is facing multiple charges after he fled the scene of a fight and led police on a high speed chase down Highway 20 in the early hours of Friday, February 3.
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| Current News | | Council, city manager evaluating performance | | Friday, February 03, 2012 | The Sisters' City Council met Wednesday in emergency executive session for the purposes of "city manager evaluation."
Oregon law allows for such private sessions for manager evaluation unless the executive requests that it be public.
The city has been embroiled in a controversy over the possible termination of the employment of City Manager Eileen Stein.
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ordinance on permits | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | The Sisters City Council has unanimously approved an emergency ordinance that would allow a 90-day extension to a temporary 180-day operating permit. | | Winter doldrums return | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Two weeks ago winter made a noticeable, but brief, appearance in Central Oregon. Some snow and a soaking rain fell at lower elevations, while the mountains received a generous snowpack. | | Family celebrates restored health | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | Five-year-old Holly Davis has had a hard fight.
Diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Holly, the daughter of Chad and Darcy Davis of Sisters, has undergone months and months of treatment at Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland. She finished those treatments in October and is now cancer-free. | |
| Business | | Reiman is new wine steward at Ray's | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Dean Reiman has relocated to Sisters to take over the wine department at Ray's Food Place. He moved from Cannon Beach a few weeks ago, where he owned and operated The Wine Shack since 2000. | | Rescue Response Gear expands | | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 | | Most days of the week, giant boxes loaded with life-saving equipment - ropes, harnesses, headlamps and carabiners - depart from Sisters, en route to rescue organizations worldwide. | | Business course on tap in Sisters | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Central Oregon Community College's Small Business Development Center is partnering with the City of Sisters to offer a special "Launch Your Business" course in Sisters, for Sisters Country companies who are just starting up. | |
| Arts & Entertainment | | Library art exhibit shines | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | The 2012 Friends of the Sisters Library (FOSL) Art Exhibit is a Sisters Country success; the evidence for that statement can be seen in the many happy library patrons who have been seen leaving the library, giving the exhibit a hearty thumbs-up. | | Sisters Chorale starts spring term | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | The Sisters High Desert Chorale, a community performing choir, begins its new season of rehearsals on February 6. | | Martyn Joseph returns to Sisters for concert | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Sisters Folk Festival fan favorite, Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph, will perform at Sisters High School on Friday, February 10, in the second installment of the festival's Winter Concert Series. | | Sisters actors perform in 'Tommy' | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Sisters' Shawn and Keenan O'Hern have a serious case of pinball fever, after just finishing a successful run of The Who's classic rock-opera "Tommy," presented by the 2nd Street Theater, in Bend. | |
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| Education | | Schools | | Veterans honor scout color guard | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Scouts from Boy Scout Troop 139 in Sisters have received Certificates of Appreciation from local veterans groups for their assistance during the Veteran's Day celebrations at Sisters schools last November. | | Math efforts starting
to add up | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Sisters schools are taking an entirely new approach to math instruction. | | Middle school greenhouse to be renovated | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | The Sisters Middle School is getting a facelift, with help from local education and gardening enthusiasts. | | Cajun fiddler gets toes tapping in Sisters | | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | The lecture/drama room at Sisters Middle School was transformed into an old-fashioned, toe-tapping hoedown on Thursday morning when Cajun fiddle master Kelly Thibodeaux visited Kit Stafford's Americana Project music class.
Students got a crash course in fiddle playing and were soon belting out some raw sounds. | |
| Sports | | Alpine skiers take
third at Mt. Bachelor | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | The Sisters High School alpine ski team posted their best results of the season in the Summit Carnival slalom ski races on Mt. Bachelor on January 28. | | Skiers turn in classic performance | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | Amity Calvin notched her first Oregon High School Nordic league win with a one-second victory in a 5,500-meter classic race at Hoodoo Ski Resort on Saturday, January 28. | | Wrestlers take four to Madras tourney | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | The Outlaws wrestling squad has been plagued with injuries and was only able to take four matmen to the Madras Invitational on Saturday, January 28. Five teams, including Sisters, Burns, La Pine, Madras and Gladstone, were in attendance. | | Swimmers win at Sweet Home | | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 | | An almost-complete Outlaws swim team faced off against the Stayton Eagles and the Sweet Home Huskies on Friday, January 27 at the Sweet Home High School Pool. Sisters won the meet with 216 points; Sweet Home was second (190 points) and Stayton third (141). | |
| Health | | Dental care is key to overall health | | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | | Developing a simple plan for oral hygiene is a vital component of an overall wellness program that will reduce medical costs and other complications resulting from poor food digestion, oral pain and gum disease. Regular checkups, exams and a proper regimen of flossing and brushing helps to accomplish those goals. | | Dealing with headaches | | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | | Headaches can be an annoyance - or a life-sapping chronic problem. The causes can be mysterious; migraines are still not well understood and a headache may be caused by anything from muscle tension to a brain tumor. | | Running Commentary - running for fitness | | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | | Sisters is a very active community of cyclists, hikers, skiers and runners. A love of the outdoors leads many to these pursuits which have the added benefit of contributing to good health. | | Want to stay healthy, be smarter, lose weight? Sleep | | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 | | Sleep. Sleep which knits the unraveled sleeve of care. Blessed slumber. | |
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