January 20, 1972
It was learned Wednesday that the contract of Douglas Olds, school superintendent for four years, has not been renewed by the Board of Directors of District 55.
The decision, according to Olds and Walter Mulholland, board chairman, was made in closed executive session following the last regular board meeting Jan. 10, for discussion of staff hiring and salary.
Announcement was not to have been made immediately, both said. However, Olds said Wednesday that within two days after the closed session “people were coming up to me and asking about it.”
“It seemed to have become knowledge, so I confirmed the fact to my staff that I will not be here next year.”
The office building of the Riverside Nursery on Riverside Drive, across the river from Sweet Home, came out second best early Tuesday morning when a car left the road about 2:30 a.m. and nearly wiped it out.
The rear corner of the building was demolished and the whole thing was knocked off its foundation when the car, driven by Elson Lee Martin, 27, 1217 River Road, hit it and knocked nursery manager Thomas Kane out of his bed in the rear room.
Kane wasn’t hurt, nor was Martin, but Kane complained of a rude awakening.
An early estimate of damage was set at $6,000, not counting the car in the back yard.
Kane’s wife said her husband dreamed he was being dive bombed when he woke up on the floor.
A 12-year-old Sweet Home Junior High youth won the Elks State Basketball Free Throw Contest Saturday in Corvallis.
Tim Seiber shot 44 out of 50 during afternoon competition at the Coliseum to tie for top number of baskets.
He threw 24 out of 25 baskets to become state champion during finals conducted during the halftime of the Oregon State University-Cincinnati game.
Jan.15, 1997
The Sweet Home City Council adopted two resolutions on Wednesday night to place $1.6 million in two serial levies on the March 11 ballot.
The three-year serial levies would start on July 1997, after the current three-year levies expire.
On Jan. 7 the Budget Committee recommended and the council voted in an emergency meeting on Jan. 8, to place a $1,493,750 police and fire levy, and a $112,500 library levy on the ballot.
Voters believe that because property taxes are too high and taxpayers cannot afford any increases in taxes, the city’s tax base was rejected, according to some 140 surveys returned to the City of Sweet Home.
Sweet Home sent out approximately 2,400 surveys to registered voters in the city to learn how the citizenry views the city, its funding and its services.
The rain had stopped and the winter sun was shining as thousands of four-wheelers poured onto the mud flats in Foster Reservoir early Saturday morning.
Some 3,500 persons attended the mud flats this year, which was down from last year, when 5,000 attended. Three years ago there were about 7,500 on the flats.
This year, tickets were sold for the event and only 3,500 persons were allowed in, due to restrictions on the mud flats events and to help cover costs, not to make money.
The Sweet Home Special Olympics team earned eight first-place ribbons at a tournament on Sunday at Sweet Home Lanes.
Sweet Home’s team of 18, ranging in age from 12 to 54, had been practicing for nine weeks prior to the event.
The Sweet Home team earned the following ribbons: Charles Childers, third; Melissa Coffman, first; Raymond Doerr, third; Zack Draper, first; Maureen Estrop, second; Randy Estrop, first; Christine Folks, first; Nancy Galloway, third; Jerame Gibbons, second; Amy Jewett, second; Katie Keenan, second; Craig Kelly, third; Clinton May, first; Mae McCalister, second; Christy Miller, first; Terry Milligan, first; Bob Miner, second; and Tony Miner, first place.