Sweet Home Rodeo returns to enthusiastic response
By Satina TolmanFor The New Era The bleachers reverberated with the sound of cheers from more than 1,500 rodeo fans as the gates at the Sweet Home Events Center…
LATEST NEWS
Five fires connected to target shooting in state forest
Quick actions by Oregon Department of Forestry crews and rural fire departments have put out five fires just since May connected to target shooting. “These fires are all preventable,” said…
PIT Count shows slight increase in area homeless numbers
Data from this year’s Point in Time (PIT) Count revealed 1,502 individuals are experiencing homelessness across the tri-county region of Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties, a modest increase…
Council does light housecleaning for police upkeep
Police and code enforcement issues were a majority of the discussions and actions taken during City Council’s Aug. 12 meeting. The council approved an ordinance amending a current ordinance…
Commissioners accept grants for county parks improvements
Alex Paul Linn County Communications Grants from the Oregon State Marine Board, Travel Oregon and Federal Title II, will help the Linn County Parks and Recreation Department tackle several…
SHEDG auctioning off Jamboree items
The Sweet Home Economic Development Group launched two live online auctions packed with items from the Oregon Jamboree Music Festival and Sweet Events inventory. Items available include site…
National Night Out Tonight on 13th Avenue
Setup is in progress for Sweet Home’s National Night Out tonight, Aug. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. on 13th Avenue between Main and Long streets. The event will will include live music, games,…
SPORTS
Soccer camp at Husky Field
Soccer kids of all ages converged on Husky Field last week for the Sweet Home High School Girls Soccer Team’s annual camp. Above, Otto Von Fumetti puts the ball past Alyna Bates in a…
Sweet Home swimmers compete in summer championships
Sweet Home Swim Club athletes competed in three championship meets this summer during the Long Course Championship Season. The Long Course Championship events take place in an Olympic-sized…
Landtroop scores wins at Fargo national wrestling tournament
Jesse Landtroop was the top finisher for Sweet Home at the 2025 U.S. Marine Corps Junior Nationals wrestling tournament held July 12-19 in Fargo, N.D. Landtroop, who will be a junior this…
After two one-run losses, SH fifth at JBO State
Sweet Home’s Junior National Green team finished fifth in the state tournament held July 11-13 at Meldrum Bar Park in Gladstone. The Huskies opened the tournament facing Oregon City Coyle, the…
COMMUNITY
From Our Files: Aug. 27, 2025
Aug. 31, 1950 Police are looking for a capricious clock snatcher who took two electric clocks from the water plant. The thief – evidently a clock fancier – broke into the 9th Avenue plant and…
Scene Around Town: Aug. 20, 2025
Learning about Health Sweet Home held its eighth annual Health Fair Saturday, Aug. 16, in the Activities Gym at Sweet Home High School because of the rain. Kids learned about how to eat…
Wolthuis daughters to perform in church’s anniversary
Fifty years ago, the newly completed meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1155 22nd Avenue in Sweet Home was dedicated with a celebratory recital featuring Dr.…
OPINION
Editorial: Community should give School Board space to rectify
It should go without saying that the way things have played out in the first month of this Sweet Home School Board’s tenure have been a disaster.. But School Board members displayed some clear…
Community leaders agree: We need Birth Center
Our community cannot afford to lose the birth center at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. Doctors, nurses, our local fire chiefs, U.S. senators and representative, City Council president…
FROM OUR FILES
From Our Files: Aug. 20, 1950
Aug. 24, 1950 A modern, new lookout, which will be manned for the first time next year, was completed this week by Linn County Fire Patrol. Called Big Rock, the structure is 32 miles southeast…
From Our Files: Aug. 13, 2025
Aug. 17, 1950 A six-foot raised center island is included in plans for widening of Main Street. It will divide the street into two 31-foot travel ways, each providing for two lanes of traffic…
OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT (OJP)
ODOT’s most persistent critic says the state could solve its road-funding crunch — by scuttling some projects
Economist Joe Cortright says the state agency is misleading lawmakers and the public about…
Oregon cries poverty, but its transportation spending is typical of western states
An OJP analysis of five recent years’ spending figures show that Oregon falls roughly in the…