Sweet Home was out of power for about six hours Friday night after a pickup smashed into a power pole on Pleasant Valley Road.
Michael Noreika, 57, who drove a blue 1989 F250 pickup, told Linn County sheriff’s deputies that he swerved to miss a deer and crashed into a power pole across the road north of Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, 1042 Pleasant Valley Road.
Several loud booms followed the crash as nearby transformers…