WELCOME...

Howdy!

Pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee, and stay a while. We’re glad to have you here. Folks in Sisters enjoy sharing this place we found — our shops, our events, and, heck, some of us will even share a favorite trail or fishing spot.

We’re proud of the community we’ve created in this beautiful spot — the quality schools we’ve built, the world-class art and music scene, the innovative businesses. Of course we want to share it, especially with like-minded folks who share our values of neighborliness and environmental awareness.

A whole lot of new people have discovered Sisters and Central Oregon. Many of those seek to find a way to make this their forever home. We welcome them all — though we can’t deny that there’s an impact.

Like other mountain towns in the West, housing in Sisters is at a premium price, and the community is trying to figure out how to maintain its character without becoming an exclusive enclave, or growing out of proportion to become just another city.

We’re experiencing the challenges of being “on the map” for people around the world. Staying focused on our values helps us face up to those challenges. Sisters has reinvented itself before, from a timber and ranching town to a tourist town — and we’re still a friendly, neighborly community where people look out for each other, and all of us wake up each morning feeling blessed to look upon the Three Sisters that gave us their name.

— Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief,

The Nugget Newspaper