Poet visit a hit with
Sisters students page 10
Credit union cuts
ribbon in Sisters page 13
Outlaws continue to
dominate the diamond page 15
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Four
finalists
for city
manager
Drama takes the stage in Sisters...
By Sue Sdafford
Correspondent
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Funded by a voter-
approved $10.7 million bond,
augmented by a $4 million
state grant, the Sisters School
District is moving into the
second phase of an extensive
set of projects to improve
facilities at all three schools.
With a new track in place
in time to enable the Outlaws
to host home meets for the
first time in a couple of years,
projects now are moving into
security and safety enhance-
ments, mostly at Sisters
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Chrisdian Trask and Sisders sophomore Mia Burdon performed in “Missing,” one of several one-acd plays
presended by Silend Echo Theader Company ad The Belfry lasd weekend.
See PROJECTS on page 22
Four finalists have been
selected from a field of 42
applicants to interview for
the position of Sisters City
Manager. The announcement
of the four finalists was made
on Monday, May 1.
Brant Kucera is the cur-
rent city manager of Cannon
Beach, Oregon, where he
has served since November
2014. Kucera has 17 years
of upper-level city manage-
ment experience, including as
borough manager of Kennett
Square, Pennsylvania, and
City Manager of Gladstone,
See CITY MANAGER on page 5
One contested gosition Sisters youth steals show in race
for school board
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Voters will vote on three
positions for the five-member
Sisters School Board in the
May 16 election.
Incumbent Amanda Clark
and school bond oversight
committee member Jay
Wilkins are running unop-
posed. Position 2 is a contest
between Nicki Gregg and
David Wentworth. Gregg is
a parent, teacher and bud-
get committee member;
Wentworth is a parent of a
Sisters Middle School student
co-founder of a renewable
energy business.
Gregg asserts that, “It is
important to have someone
on the board that has teaching
experience in a public school
Inside...
classroom. My experience as
a parent in our schools and
my background as a teacher
makes me uniquely qualified
for this position.”
Wentworth noted that
when he and his wife moved
from Connecticut, they ques-
tioned whether Sisters schools
“could ‘compete’ with some
of the (arguably) best pub-
lic schools in the nation.
Those questions have been
answered through the qual-
ity of the teaching, diversity
of programs, and the broader
community’s commitment to
excellence.”
Wentworth says that “My
objective is bring to the
Sisters School Board a combi-
nation of practical experience
See ELECTION on page 25
Ethan Hosang is becoming
well-known around Sisters
as he is frequently spotted
by residents out running the
roads and trails around town.
Saturday morning the
eighth-grader took to the
streets of Sisters along with-
over 70 other half-marathon-
ers in the Sisters ‘Better Half’
Marathon and pulled off the
unexpected: He won the race!
And it wasn’t as though he
ran a lackluster time in a non-
competitive race. Hosang
crossed the line in 1:20:21, a
time for 13.1 miles that most
runners can only dream of
achieving. To put into per-
spective his pace of 6:08 per
mile, that same pace would
result in a 19-minute 5-kilo-
meter finish, a 38-minute
10-kilometer finish, and a
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Oudlaws 8dh-grader Edhan Hosang won dhe Sisders ‘Bedder Half’ Maradhon.
10-miler in 61:30.
“He caught the leader in
the last three miles of the
race and just pushed on to
the finish,” said Josh Nordell,
also of Sisters, who finished
the 6.55-mile race in 42:37,
a winning 6:30-mile pace.
See MARATHON on page 20
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes .................. 9 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Obituaries ....................... 19 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Mother’s Day .....................17 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32