Harvest festival draws crowd to upgraded park
Kelly Kenoyer Sweet Home’s 2020 Harvest Festival was a resounding success, according to city officials. At its peak,…
City Hall gallery exhibits local photographers’ perspectives of 2020
Kelly Kenoyer The COVID-19 pandemic is a once-in-a-lifetime historical event and a local photography show at City Hall…
School officials frustrated by shifting rules, numbers
Kelly Kenoyer Sweet Home Public Schools is trapped in a tug of war between rising cases of COVID-19…
COVID spikes in SH
Kelly Kenoyer An employee at Safeway tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Oct. 5, and is now quarantining,…
Planning Commission OKs 54-lot Duck Hollow subdivision
Kelly Kenoyer Sweet Home planning commissioners on Monday, Sept. 21, approved a property line adjustment which will allow…
City officials, sponsors of logger carving on ODOT land, weight options
Kelly Kenoyer The chainsaw carving at the intersection of Highway 228 and 20, in front of the East…
Library, others to join together in providing kids with after-school activities
Kelly Kenoyer Children in Sweet Home looking to spend time with peers will soon have a new, free…
Police chief: Fires prompted nearly 1,000 calls to SH cops
Kelly Kenoyer The Sweet Home Police Department received 996 calls related to the fires in early September, Police…
Groundbreaking marks start of 48 apartments
Kelly Kenoyer For the first time in decades, Sweet Home is getting a new apartment complex. The four-building…
City to hold Harvest Fest this Saturday
Kelly Kenoyer Sweet Home will hold its annual Harvest Festival Saturday, Oct. 3, and there is plenty of…
Kids’ return to school up in the air
Kelly Kenoyer At press time Monday evening, Sept. 28, Linn County has officially dropped out of eligibility for…
Sweet Home Harvest Festival Needs Volunteers
Kelly Kenoyer Sweet Home’s Harvest Festival is coming up quick, and the event still needs volunteers. This year’s…
Charter School starts in-house, in a limited way
Kelly Kenoyer Between windstorms, smoke, evacuation orders, and power outages, schools across East Linn County had rough starts…
Fires cause bit of whirlwind for teacher
Kelly Kenoyer It was supposed to be her last day firefighting before she began teaching for fall, but…
New funding gives SHHS students leg up on college credit
Kelly Kenoyer Sweet Home High School students have new opportunities for college credit this year after a successful…
Investigators probing suspicious fires in SH, Brownsville areas
Kelly Kenoyer Eight suspicious fires were started in a period of two hours during the early hours of…
‘Cowboy Convoy’ volunteers team up to help rescue livestock
Kelly Kenoyer As evacuation orders started coming in fast throughout east Linn County Tuesday, Sept. 8, folks in…
Trustees return Dale Keene to Sweet Home School Board
Kelly Kenoyer There’s a new School Board member in town, after board members chose Dale Keene to replace…
Local Gleaners load up groceries for firestorm evacuees
Kelly Kenoyer As ash rained down on Sweet Home Wednesday, Sept. 9, leaders of the Sweet Home Gleaners…
Relaxed coronavirus rules allowing care home residents to finally receive visitors home
Kelly Kenoyer For Brenda Hyland of Sweet Home, the coronavirus pandemic has meant more than not getting to…
COVID counts may open doors of classrooms
Kelly Kenoyer The most current numbers from the Oregon Health Authority by county set Linn County at 13…
Homelessness in Sweet Home
Kelly Kenoyer Pastor Bethanie Young didn’t expect to become an impromptu camp host for the homeless, but when…
Community steps up for local man and his dog(s)
Kelly Kenoyer Louis Carreiro was one of the first local homeless individuals to shelter by the Nazarene church…
Councilors OK plan to raise building fees
Kelly Kenoyer City Council members came to a consensus on planned increases to system development charges at a…
Sunshine Industries slowly restoring operations after COVID shutdown
Kelly Kenoyer Sunshine Industries Unlimited restarted its day support services for local disabled adults on Aug. 31, following…