The Nugget Vol. XLVII No. 27
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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Celebrating America…
PHOTO BY KELLI CARTER
Young dancers from Sisters Dance Academy offered a flag-waving performance at a recital last month. Sisters will celebrate America’s birthday on Thursday, July 4, with an event in and around Village Green Park. See story, page 11.
Black Butte Ranch faces lawsuit By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief
Nine people who worked at Robert’s Pub on Black Butte Ranch have filed a $13.5 million lawsuit alleging that they were sexually abused and harassed by long-time Ranch server
Sisters: Small town — big music By Bill Bartlett
Michael Woosley — and that the Ranch and its managers failed to act to correct and stop Woosley’s actions. Attorneys Christopher Larsen of Pickett Dummigan McCall LLP and Jason Kafoury of Kafoury & See LAWSUIT on page 5
Pedestrian hit by vehicle in Sisters A 72-year-old Beaverton woman was seriously hurt when she was hit by a vehicle while crossing Cascade Avenue on Monday evening, June 24. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s O ffi c e , deputies were
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dispatched to the intersection of East Cascade Avenue and North Spruce Street in Sisters for a report of a crash involving a pedestrian. Lt. Chad Davis reported that the crash occurred when See PEDESTRIAN on page 16
Letters/Weather .........2 Meetings ....................3
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Ask anybody who attended the second Big Ponderoo Music and Art Festival, or who just wandered by, and they will tell you it had success written all over it. “I’ve got a slogan for your Chamber of Commerce,” Doyle McMaster of Hood River told The Nugget. “Small town. Big music.” “No,” interrupted his partner, Liz Driscoll. “Small town. Huge music.” Like dozens of others The Nugget interviewed, searching particularly for those who had travelled long distances for the event, the consensus was that Sisters, with Big Ponderoo, outperformed many larger venues. “The music just couldn’t be better,” said Lyle Waters from Spokane, Washington. “We spend a month going from festival to festival, and
Trailgrams ..................6 Announcements........10
PHOTO BY CODY RHEAULT
Hogslop String Band energized the crowd at Big Ponderoo. this is the cherry on the top.” His brother Bo compared Big Ponderoo to the Boise Music Festival they attended the week before: “That’s a spectacle — thousands sitting all crammed together — no intimacy. Here, we got better music, more music, and a feeling, an experience
Entertainment .......... 11 Stars over Sisters ..... 15
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that doesn’t come close to anything else.” It was that “feeling” which seemed at the centerpiece of two full days of music featuring 16 acts. Spread out in chairs and blankets on the cool, velvety See PONDEROO on page 14
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Program