Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance recovered the body of a teen who drowned in the South Santiam River while fishing Thursday evening, Oct. 29.
The teen was 15-year-old Matthew Ryan Van Brocklin, a student at Sweet Home High School.
At 5:05 p.m., the Linn County Sheriff’s Office received a 9-1-1 call reporting a fisherman in distress floating downstream in the river near Pleasant Valley Bridge, said Sheriff Bruce Riley. Dive teams from the Sweet Home…