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The Nugget
Vol. XLIV No. 4
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Secondary students return to school
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
<Snow on the ground,
sun is out, kids are coming
back 4 life is good!= said
Sisters Middle School (SMS)
Counselor Brook Jackson on
Monday, January 25, as stu-
dents returned to classrooms
for the first time in months.
After nearly 11 months of
receiving instruction through
Comprehensive Distance
Learning, secondary students
in Sisters School District
returned to the classroom
this week under the <Hybrid
Model,= which allows
them to be in school part of
the week, while continu-
ing distance learning in the
remainder.
Grades five and six at
SMS and nine and 10 at
Sisters High School (SHS)
stepped through the doors
of their respective schools
Monday, January 25, to a
much-changed environment,
with strict protocols in place
ensuring social distancing,
Inside...
Hospice
seeking
local help
in building
challenge
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Principal Joe Hosang,
along with other staff mem-
bers and some senior student
The starting gun has
sounded and the race is under-
way here in Sisters to raise
$100,000 toward an overall
goal of $6 million donated
for construction of a new
12-bed Hospice House on the
Partners In Care campus in
Bend to serve all of Central
Oregon.
The project already has
local donations of $10,500
and they hope to have the
total amount by June 30,
2021. Six million dollars will
come from donations and $6
See SCHOOL on page 31
See HOSPICE HOUSE on page 12
PHOTO BY JACK TURPEN
Some Sisters Middle School students returned to school Monday as part of the district’s “Hybrid Model.”
including specific entry and
exit points, the establishment
of cohorts, and extra spacing
in hallways, commons, and
classrooms.
Sheriff’s office
investigates shooting
The Deschutes County
Sheriff9s Office is seeking
the public9s help in investi-
gating a shooting incident
that occurred earlier this
month west of Sisters.
Deschutes County
Sheriff 9s Office received
a report on January 17, at
approximately 3:40 p.m.,
of a vehicle being shot at a
long-term camp in the area
of USFS Road 1510 near
the 450 spur, approximately
five miles west of Sisters. A
green mid-1990s Chevrolet
Tahoe had been shot mul-
tiple times by an unknown
subject near the camp.
The vehicle was in very
close proximity to a tent that
was being used for housing.
The occupants of the
c a m p c a l l e d 9 11 a n d
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
deputies responded to the
area, assisted by a U.S.
Forest Service law enforce-
ment officer. Additionally,
a USFS Law Enforcement
K-9 responded to search
the area extensively. DCSO
reports that no suspects were
located.
Over the past week,
deputies have conducted
multiple interviews and
have searched the area for
additional evidence. The
investigation is active and
ongoing.
The Deschutes County
Sheriff9s Office is encour-
aging the public to con-
tact the Deschutes County
Sheriff 9s Office at 541-
693-6911 if they have any
further information on this
case.
For ninth graders at
SHS, this week represents
their first on-site experi-
ence as a group of high
schoolers.
Winter finally shows up in Sisters
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 of the
white stuff.
Friday9s snowfall snarled
traffic on local highways,
with different crashes
throughout the day peri-
odically closing Highway
20 both west and east of
town and blocking traf-
fic on Highway 126 toward
Redmond. With a little more
snow in the forecast, Oregon
State Police reminded driv-
ers of the importance of
some basic safety tips:
" Check your route and
the weather. Use www.
tripcheck.com for updated
road closures and chain
requirements.
" Drive slowly. Always
PHOTO BY BILL BARTLETT
The first real snowfall of the winter brought out the young folks in Sisters
— for a little bit of play and a little bit of work.
adjust your speed down to
account for lower traction
when driving on snow or ice.
" Accelerate and decel-
erate slowly. Apply the gas
slowly to regain traction
and avoid skids. Don9t try
to get moving in a hurry and
take time to slow down for a
stoplight.
See SNOW on page 31
Letters/Weather ............... 2 Obituaries .........................7 Announcements ...............10 Fun & Games ................... 26 Classifieds .................28-30
Meetings .......................... 3 Paw Prints ........................ 9 Entertainment ................. 11 Crossword .......................27 Real Estate ................ 30-32