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12/11/2025

Here's what's happening in Sisters... Go to www.nuggetnews.com/page/community-events-calendar/110.html to see more events.

12/04/2025

A few weeks ago, I participated in a Citizens 4 Community “conversation” about free speech. The conversation wasn’t about the First Amendment per se, but centered around the “culture” of free speech and how robust public discourse interacts with values of community harmony and a sense of safety.
Several times during that conversation, I used the term “the marketplace of ideas,” which has been the preferred metaphor for more than a century for a free exchange of ideas in an open, public forum. The metaphor holds that good ideas will rise and bad ones sink in such a free market.
One of the audience members expressed disdain for my “capitalist framing” of the question of free speech. There was clearly a broader critique of capitalism embedded in his complaint, which we did not have an opportunity to tease out — but it stuck with me, because I actually don’t care for the term myself.

Duking It Out In ‘The Octagon Of Ideas’

12/02/2025

Krampus sighting in Sisters! Read all about it in The Nugget...

Professional community journalism based in Sisters, Oregon providing comprehensive coverage of city government, school, forest service and other local news. Weekly features include editorials and lett

11/30/2025

Fun time at the Sisters Holiday Palooza.
photo by Cody Rheault

11/28/2025

🎄🎶 Sisters Community Holiday Showcase Auditions deadline is approaching. 🎶🎄
Want to perform in the Sisters Community Holiday Showcase presented by Sisters High School music department? They would love to feature YOU at this year’s Sisters Community Holiday Showcase on Tuesday, December 16 at Sisters High School! Whether it’s a juggling act, a dance duet, a parent-child musical moment, a mini choir piece, a magic trick, or anything festive and fun, they want to see it! Acts should be 2-3 minutes or shorter. To audition, email a video of your act to: [email protected] or [email protected].
👉📅 Audition Deadline: Tuesday, December 2, 2025

11/25/2025

Check out The Nugget’s new Substack page, Nuggets From A Small Town. Subscribe and join the conversation...
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Who are we, anyway?
Identity is powerful.
We tie our sense of personal identity to many things — our ethnic background and family heritage; our religious beliefs and political affiliations; even to seemingly superficial things like what kind of music we like or what sports teams we root for. We ought to be careful with it, because once we tie ourselves to an allegiance that becomes a part of our sense of self, it drives us.

Nuggets From A Small Town digs into the challenges that face a small community that is growing and changing. Click to read Nuggets From A Small Town, by Jim Cornelius, a Substack publication. Launched 8 days ago.

11/18/2025

The season’s upon us...

It’s that most wonderful time of the year. Churches and civic organizations and shopkeepers are readying for a string of events to welcome the giving season. Sisters Community Church will hold its annual Thanksgiving Dinner on turkey day with a free hot meal that can be family-style dining or take...

11/11/2025

A salute to those who have served our nation under arms for 250 years... Note, due to Veterans Day falling on a Tuesday, our coverage of the Sisters School District events honoring veterans will appear in the 11/19 edition of The Nugget.
(Back Country Militiamen On The March To Quebec, 1775, by N.C. Wyeth)

11/10/2025

Thank you to Cormac Lichvacik, Dale Grimsman, Paul Lipscomb and Steve Greer for the photos of the glorious sunset of Sunday, November 9. Such sights are truly part of what makes Sisters a special place to live.

11/08/2025

Come see us at The Slow Down State 'til 7...free music and food!