Sisters News

The city of Sisters received a $10,000 grant to help the city purchase and install a quilt called “Two Rivers, Three Sisters," which was made by Central Oregon quilt artists.

Food, wine, art and music are all under one roof at Clearwater Gallery and Framing & The Open Door , which is quickly becoming a social and cultural gathering spot in this High Cascades community.

Editor's note: Due to space constraints, organizations in the Arts, Music, Culture and Heritage category were not listed.

Following significant work to reduce hazard trees within the Pole Creek Fire closure area, much of the area will reopen to the public Thursday, the Deschutes National Forest announced.

Fire season has begun weeks earlier than usual in parts of Oregon, a result of drier-than-normal conditions so far this spring, the U.S. Forest Service reiterated Monday.

Starting at 9:30 a.m., the parade features musical groups, rodeo queens, classic cars, marching bands, floats and horses.

The Gray Family Foundation awarded $415,000 in grants to support environmental education , including $250,000 for community field trips and $125,000 for professional development for teachers.

A historic neighborhood just outside downtown Bend, a century-old school bell that was feared missing until it was rediscovered in a Redmond storage locker and an Indian War-era military camp outside of Sisters that many of the region's settlers saw when they first came here will take center stage... Today you'll find on average at least 100 ... (more)

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and Oregon Tourism Commission announces the designation of two new state scenic bikeways: the Tualatin Valley and Madras Mountain Views.

State Highway 126 between Redmond and Sisters was closed for several hours Tuesday following a multiple-injury, two-vehicle crash.

Sisters High went into its Sky-Em League contest against Junction City with a plan.

The Bend Fire Department is expected in force for a memorial to one of its own Saturday, interim Fire Chief Larry Langston said.

Given favorable conditions, Deschutes National Forest fuels specialists on the Bend-Fort Rock and Sisters Ranger District plan to conduct prescribed burns in five separate areas next week.

Eilen Jewell is an Idahoan, a former Bostonian, a spitfire and an ultra-cool roots-rocker. Jewell returns to Sisters Wednesday, and my colleague David Jasper caught up with her and talked about what folks can expect at The Belfry.

Mike Fisher dumps a wheelbarrow full of pine needles and cones into a trailer Wednesday while cleaning up yard debris around his home in Bend.

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A two-story home was destroyed by fire west of Redmond Sunday morning, but the owners were away at the time and there were no injuries, authorities said.

The MJ Murdock Charitable Trust , at its winter grants meeting, awarded $3,821,300 to Washington nonprofits, including $7,000 to Camas High School .

Given favorable weather conditions, Deschutes National Forest fuel specialists on the Sisters District plan to conduct prescribed burns on three separate projects next week.

He tilts his face toward mid-April's laboring sun and seems to drink in details: the cloudless sky; the butterscotch-hued bark of Ponderosa pines; grass pushing up between pockets of snow; a kingfisher's rattling call; a butterfly's shadow; the rapids and eddies of that gin-clear Central Oregon gem, the Metolius River.