Sweet Home boys finish fifth in golf districts; two clear 200
Sweet Home finished fifth in the seven-team Special District 2 boys golf championship tournament held May 9-10 at…
Softball: Surging Huskies hand Cascade first league loss, then lose close one to Stayton
Sweet Home softball pulled off a big upset on Thursday, May 12 with a 4-3 win against a…
Letter: GOP hypocritical, lies about abortion (May 18, 2022)
Editor: A guy once said that if men got pregnant you’d be able to get an abortion at…
Letter: Sheriff’s race has one qualified candidate (May 18, 2022)
Editor: Campaigning for the November election for Linn County Sheriff has already begun and I urge all voters…
Letter: LCSO needs new leadership at top (May 18, 2022)
Editor: I’ve noticed Michelle Duncan has a slogan “because experience matters.” This carries no weight because it’s about…
From Our Files (May 18, 2022)
May 19, 1972 An electronic piano was presented to the Senior Citizens of Sweet Home. The Lebanon chapter…
Difficult baseball season ends for Huskies with losses to Cascade
Sweet Home’s baseball season ended with two losses to Cascade. The Cougars beat the Huskies in Sweet Home…
Jesse Sharp
A graveside service for World War II Navy veteran Jesse Harvey Sharp, 95, of Sweet Home, who died…
Death Notices (May 18, 2022)
Catherine I. Gordon (Urben), 91, a longtime Sweet Home resident, died May 10, 2022, in Salem. Virgil T.…
Around Town (May 11, 2022)
Meals on Wheels weekly menu Meals on Wheels offers take-out lunch at the Sweet Home Community Center to…
Baseball: Huskies pull off come-from-behind win over Newport in 10th
Sweet Home baseball scored an upset win against a Newport team, the third-place team in the 4A-3 Oregon…
Lebanon police and Linn County sheriff logs, April 29-May 5, 2022
April 29 12:38 p.m. – Brandon Kyle Alexander, 31, was cited for a Linn County Circuit Court warrant…
Linn County OKs budget for 2022-23
After four days of deliberations, the six-member Linn County Budget Committee last week approved a budget of $221,838,213…
Circuit Court (May 11, 2022)
Justin Wayne Seibert, 33, pleaded no contest on April 29 to a charge of failing to register as…
Two dead, two injured in Highway 20 crash near Sweet Home
Two people died and two suffered injuries, one critical, in a two-vehicle crash Saturday, May 14, at Highway…
Track: Huskies tune up with Last Chance meet as districts approach
With the district track and field championships approaching at the end of this week, Sweet Home’s athletes got…
Letter: Current Sheriff not an incumbent (May 11, 2022)
Editor: In regard to the election story beginning on the bottom of the front page of the April…
Softball: Huskies defeat Sisters behind no-hitter from Maddie Harris
Sweet Home’s softball held onto its third-place position in the 4A-3 Oregon West Conference with a routine 8-0…
Annona Catherine Tiensvold
Annona Catherine Tiensvold, 84, a Sweet Home resident for more than 20 years, passed away peacefully at home…
Margaret Bristow
Margaret W. “Peggy” Bristow, 96, of Sweet Home, died April 29, 2022. She was born Oct. 22, 1925,…
Wanda Cynthia Miner
Wanda Cynthia Miner, 101, of Sweet Home passed away May 4, 2022. She was born March 24, 1921…
Death Notices (May 11, 2022)
Beverlee J. Detlefsen, 93, of Sweet Home, died May 8, 2022. Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the…
James ‘Jim’ William Conklin
James “Jim” William Conklin, 77, passed away at home in Henderson, Nev., on May 1, 2022. He was…
Carol Jean (Ripley) Wence
Jean Wence of Hilo, Hawaii, passed away on April 23, 2022, at her daughter’s home in Phoenix, Ariz.…
Commentary: Oregon should lose charter restrictions (May 11, 2022)
By Dr. Eric Fruits This week is National Charter Schools Week. Oregon passed charter school legislation in 1999,…