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Nicole Vulcan became Editor of the Source in 2016 and was promoted to Editor in Chief in 2024, managing the Editorial Board and the news team's many investigative projects. She's also at work on her debut book of journalistic non-fiction, titled "Self Medication," which traces Oregon's drug decriminalization efforts in the 21st Century, and tells a parallel tale of her own family’s losses from fentanyl addiction in the age of Measure 110. With all of that on her plate, send snacks. Catch up with the adventures at her book's Substack, called Self Medication.
This just in from the folks at Sisters Folk Festival: “It is with profound regret that the Board of Directors of the Sisters Folk Festival announces that the September 8 – 10, 2017 event has been cancelled due to extremely poor air quality conditions in Central Oregon. “After days of intensive consultation with fire managers, […]
Highway 20 at the Santiam Pass is back open this morning, after the Oregon Department of Transportation closed it last night due to wildfire. Here’s the update we received from ODOT this morning: “One lane is open on U.S. 20 between mileposts 75 to 88 with two way traffic being flagged with a pilot car. […]
Traveling to the Willamette Valley or into the Cascades today? Avoid Highway 20. The Oregon Department of Transportation released this notice less than one hour ago, alerting drivers to the closure of Hwy. 20: “U.S. 20 remains closed because of a wildfire about 5 miles west of Santiam Pass. Eastbound traffic is being stopped at […]
The Milli Fire near Sisters expanded over the Aug. 19-20 weekend to approximately 11,236 acres as of Tuesday morning. The fire, located about 9 miles west of Sisters, prompted evacuations of people in the Crossroads, Edgington/Remuda, Wildwing and Peterson Burn Road areas, as well as people along both sides of Three Creeks Road. In addition, […]
The Nena Springs fire on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation has not grown in size since Aug. 20, fire officials said Tuesday. That fire had grown to about 68,135 acres, and prompted evacuations at the Charley Canyon, South Junction, Culpus Bridge and Wolf Point subdivisions of Warm Springs. The Nena Springs fire is thought to […]
The Deschutes River Alliance scored a victory in court last week in its lawsuit against Portland General Electric. The lawsuit, filed last year, alleges that PGE is violating some tenets of the Clean Water Act via its facility at the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project. In that suit, DRA alleges that PGE’s facility was responsible, […]
What will the skies look like for Eclipse Monday? That’s the question a lot of people want to know. For now, the Oregon Office of Emergency Management says traffic was lighter than expected on Saturday—at least in part due to people heeding the suggestion to get where they’re going early. Still, Monday traffic is expected […]
Noticing all that smoke in Central Oregon right now? That could be a good sign or a bad one, depending on how you look at it. In some cases, it’s an indication that firefighters are putting those fires out—but it also means that homes and wildlife are still in danger. Update: Milli Fire near Sisters […]
People in three neighborhoods west of Sisters have received pre-evacuation notices, after the Mill Fire west of town grew Wednesday. The fire, burning since last week, grew from 260 acres to about 3,000 acres Wednesday afternoon. The fire is burning 8 miles west of Sisters and approximately 1.5 miles southwest of Black Crater Lake. The […]
A simple how-to for viewing the eclipse safely—by even using a copy of this newspaper. Whatever your reasons for missing out on buying that simple pair of NASA-approved ISO 12312-2 eclipse viewing glasses, here you are, without a pair just before the eclipse. Maybe you’re holding a copy of the physical paper in your actual hands, […]
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