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SH man leaves a legacy of friendship
A Sweet Home man died in the early morning hours of Sept. 19 when his motorcycle struck an elk near Scio. On Tuesday at 12:15 a.m., Linn County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a motor vehicle...
Woman rides horseback across U.S.
Sweet Home residents might have been surprised to find a young woman riding a horse through town on Thursday, Sept. 21. That same woman ate an entire pizza from All Star Pizza that evening. Apparently...
Two brush fires, one forcing evac of Bi-Mart
Two brush fires occurred within a 24 hour time frame in the Sweet Home area on Wednesday, Sept. 20 and Thursday, Sept. 21. The first fire, at 10:52 a.m. on Wednesday on Mountain Home Drive, was...
Award winning crime thriller book series set in Sweet Home
Chris Patchell, author of four crime thrillers set in Sweet Home, recently won a Readers' Favorite 2023 Bronze Medal for Best Crime Fiction. Her entry, "Hide Her", is the fourth book in the Lacey...
New restaurant, The Rusty Bucket, opens in Sweet Home
In less than a year, a new local restaurant has already opened up in the shell of a longtime classic Sweet Home dining establishment. The Cedar Shack closed in December of last year after nearly 58...
Girl sells homemade piñatas to fund Washington D.C. trip
A local middle schooler is looking to raise money for a week-long educational trip to Washington D.C. with her mom next June, and she figured out a creative way to do it - selling homemade piñatas....
Sweet Home fire personnel spend 1,200 hours helping with out-of-town forest fires
At the Sept. 19 Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District board meeting at Station 21, Fire Chief Nick Tyler shared that this summer SHFD personnel responded to the Moon Mountain, Hat Rock, Smith River,...
First win of the season for girls soccer
Sweet Home girls soccer earned its first win of the season on Thursday, Sept. 21, beating divisional rival Stayton 3-1 at Husky Field. The win put Sweet Home at 1-4 on the season, while Stayton moved...
Football loses close game
Sweet Home football had Cottage Grove on the ropes on their home field on Friday night, but a late drive by the Lions thwarted the Huskies' chance to secure their first victory of the season. Cottage...
Volleyball can't find the win in challenging week
Sweet Home volleyball lost all six matches this week. In league play, they lost at Stayton 26-28, 23-25, 25-18, 19-25. At Cascade, the Huskies fell 7-25, 8-25, 18-25. Then, at the Marist Round Robin Tournament at Marist High School on Saturday,...
SHOCASE donates $7,000
At the Sept. 11 Sweet Home School District board meeting in the District Office, the Sweet Home Coalition for Artistic and Scholastic Enrichment (SHOCASE), donated $7,000 to the district for...
Thorpe steps down from OWA after 13 years
After serving for 13 years as Oregon Wrestling Association Chairman, Sweet Home High School wrestling coach Steve Thorpe is stepping down from that role. "I am going to focus on just coaching Sweet Ho...
City increases salaries of some department heads and managers
At the Sept. 12 Sweet Home city council meeting at City Hall, the council approved by a 6-1 vote a resolution increasing salary schedules for non-represented city employees. The utilities manager...
Paradise Coach owner plans for four food carts on property
On March 9, the house that was situated on Jeff Vanderpool's property, 1333 47th Avenue, which is also home to his business, Paradise Coach, burned down. Now only a gravel lot sits in its place. But...
Woman starts Small Town Big Heart Pull Tab Challenge
A retired nurse, 52-year-old Stephanie Lewis loves helping people. "That's just me. I like to do things like that," she says. When she first moved to town in 2019 there were 25 kids in her Quince...
Aaron Hegge named new Sweet Home Rotary Club president
Aaron Hegge is a name known in town because of the Farmers Insurance Aaron Hegge Agency on Main Street. Now the 39-year-old is also the president of the Sweet Home Rotary Club. He took over the role...
Three injured in West Holley Road accident
Three Sweet Home people were transported to a hospital by medics as a result of a two-vehicle crash on 1st Avenue and West Holley Road on Monday morning. A Sweet Home Police Officer responded to the scene at 7:43 a.m. on Sept. 11. According to an...
Sweet Home football stifled by tough Cascade team
Sweet Home football got a rude awakening to what life's like in Special District 3 on Friday, losing 42-0 at home against an undefeated Cascade team in their first foray into league play this year....
Boys soccer gives up two second half goals in loss to Siuslaw
The Sweet Home boys soccer team fell to 0-3-1 on the season with a 2-0 loss to Siuslaw/Mapleton at home on Thursday, Sept. 14. "We did a much better job defensively the first half and improved with ou...
Volleyball takes care of business against Gladstone
Sweet Home volleyball took care of business to advance to 5-2 in a 25-13, 25-15, 25-14 road win against a Gladstone team that is struggling this season at 1-6. “Our focus this week was to go out and beat teams,” Head Coach Mary Hutchins said....
Miersma too much for Sweet Home girls soccer
The Sweet Home girls soccer team fell to 0-4 on the season with a 7-0 loss on the road against Western Christian on Thursday, Sept. 14. Despite the result, Head Coach Ramiro Santana said it was the best game the Huskies have played this season....
SHFAD attends annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony
Five uniformed Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District personnel attended the annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony sponsored by the American Legion Post 10 on the north steps of the Linn County Courthouse at...
Best in the West brings in 150 more participants than last year
The 12th Best in the West Triathlon Festival at Lewis Creek Park and the surrounding areas on Sept. 9 and 10 brought in just under 1,000 racers from 23 states and various countries. That was about...
Bridge built in "record" time to help fight Wiley Fire
267 firefighters fought the Wiley Fire, but despite all this manpower they came up against a problem. How were they going to get fire fighting apparatus across Little Wiley Creek to continue battling...
Commission permits RV cover, extends hearing on duplex
The Sweet Home Planning Commission had a long meeting on Sept. 7, in which they voted both to allow someone to construct a metal RV cover on their property and to extend a public hearing on an...
