Leona Marie Hopper
Leona Hopper Aug. 18, 1944 – Oct. 4, 2025 Leona Marie Hopper, 81, of Lebanon, formerly of Sweet…
Dwayne Earl Hodson
Dwayne Hodson May 31, 1965 – Oct. 14, 2025 Dwayne Earl Hodson, 60, of Sweet Home, passed…
James Thomas Prater-Adee, Jr.
James Prater-Adee, Jr. Sept. 11, 1973 – Oct. 10, 2025 James Thomas Prater-Adee, Jr. (Jimbo), age 52 of…
Events: Oct. 22, 2025
SH Around Town Master Sharing Tree forms available Sweet Home Fire & Ambulance District is now accepting…
UPDATED Police Logs: Oct. 22, 2025
Information for the Public Safety report and Courts in The New Era is sourced from local law enforcement…
Circuit Court: Oct. 22, 2025
Information for the Public Safety report and Courts in The New Era is sourced from local law enforcement…
Volleyball results mixed
It was a week of mixed results for the Huskies, as they lost 3-0 to Newport (25-21, 25-16,…
End of fire season gives way to planned burns in forest
The Willamette National Forest has announced that it will conduct prescribed fire operations this fall, pending the necessary…
Huskies play well but come up short at Crescent Valley
Despite playing well and doing almost everything right, Sweet Home’s football team suffered its second straight loss Friday…
Missing Lebanon man found in canyon south of Sweet Home
Following weeks of searching, the body of a missing Lebanon man has been located. Donald Carroll, 88, was…
One dead, two injured in highway collision
A local man was killed and his wife is in serious condition after a car collided into their…
Events: Oct. 15, 2025
‘No Kings’ rally Oct. 18 in Lebanon East Linn Indivisible will hold a “No Kings” rally from 11…
Husky XC teams place at Philomath Mariman meet
Sweet Home’s young cross-country teams continued to progress Saturday, Oct. 11, both the boys and girls placing in…
Sweet Home FFA members place in soils competition
Sweet Home finished with individual and team placewinners in the annual Upper Willamette District FFA Soils Judging…
Local woman wonders where her seahorses are
Who would steal seahorses? That’s what Laurie Horner is wondering as she ponders the loss of a sculpture…
Elks donate to veterans
Sweet Home Elks Lodge #1972 welcomed veterans from the Edward C. Allworth Veterans Home inb Lebanon who came…
Earl “Butch” Eugene Jones
Earl Jones July 28, 1951 – Oct. 7, 2025 Earl “Butch” Eugene Jones, 74, of Sweet Home, passed…
Sarah Bonita Couch
Sarah Couch Dec. 20, 1954 – Oct. 9, 2025 Sarah Bonita Couch, 70, of Foster, passed away Oct.…
Russell Henry Adams
Russell Adams Jan. 24, 1949 – Oct. 7, 2025 Russell Henry Adams, 76, of Sweet Home, passed away…
UPDATED Police Logs: Oct. 15, 2025
Information for the Public Safety report and Courts in The New Era is sourced from local law enforcement…
Husky boys engineer turnaround after bad soccer loss
After a disappointing night against No. 1 Stayton, Sweet Home’s boys rebounded to tie Cascade in Oregon West…
Huskies can’t get a break in football loss at Junction City
It was one of those nights when nothing seemed to go Sweet Home’s way on the football field.…
Sheriff’s dive team searches for 18-year-old in North Santiam
Linn County Sheriff’s personnel spent the latter part of last week searching the North Santiam River near the…
Trail extension planned for Yellowbottom
The Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to begin improving a walking trail at Yellowbottom Recreation Site…