Huskies narrowly slip past Elmira, advance to playoffs
Brandon Keenon, buried at the bottom of this pile, scores the winning touchdown in the Huskies’ second overtime…
Community forum will address crime
Jason Redick is organizing a meeting for a new Facebook group, “Sweet Home Community Watch,” at 7 p.m.…
Sweet Home woman gets 5½ years for attempted assault
Sara Ann Bejar-Suarez was sentenced to 67½ months in prison Friday in Linn County Circuit Court in connection…
Public Safety Log October 29, 2014
Oct. 27 3:49 a.m. – Crystal Chantel Dawn Schatz, 30, arrested on warrant for failure to appear on…
Tractor rollover kills operator
Linn County Sheriff’s deputies last week were looking into a fatal tractor accident that occurred Tuesday, Oct. 21,…
Jamboree announces Dierks Bentley as second headliner
The Oregon Jamboree announced Dierks Bentley as its second headliner Tuesday, Oct. 28. Bentley boasts 10 No. 1…
Anglers advocacy group plans organizational meeting
The Coastal Conservation Association of Oregon, an advocacy group for fish and fishing, is looking to start a…
Girls end soccer with losses to Elmira, JC
Elmira 2, Sweet Home 1 Elmira defeated Sweet Home 2-1 on the road on Oct. 21. “We played…
JC, Elmira end boys soccer season
Elmira 2, Sweet Home 0 Sweet Home put up great numbers in just about every stat except the…
Jakob Hiett wins third district XC title, but boys, girls miss team state berths
Jakob Hiett won his third straight district cross-country championship Thursday, Oct. 23, at Lane Community College, running 16:16.1.…
Drivers ignoring school speed zone
Editor: I have a concern about the school zone at Hawthorne School. The time for the reduced speed…
Measure 91 has many fatal flaws
Editor: We are all free to make our own decisions in life. However, we are not free to…
Measures give voters wide range of choices, some divisive
Oregonians, including we Linn County residents, face a challenging list of measures this week as those of us…
Two found dead in two house fires in Sweet Home Monday
Fire officials are looking into a pair of house fires in which two people died Monday morning in…
Around Town for October 22, 2014
Learn about LBCC technical programs A Career Technical Education Open House will be held from 4 to 7…
Mat Club wrestling sign-ups next week
Sign-ups for the Sweet Home Mat Club will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday,…
Wins over Elmira, CG leave SH spikers eyeing play-in
Sweet Home’s volleyball team kept its playoff hopes alive last week with wins on the road over Cottage…
Husky harriers see fast times, grim reality of injury plague
Sweet Home’s cross-country runners got a pretty good sense of how they match up against the rest of…
SH well-represented among Runaway Pumpkin finishers
Seventeen Sweet Home runners and walkers were among the finishers in the 2014 Runaway Pumpkin Half Marathon Saturday,…
Public Safety Log October 22, 2014
Oct. 20 6:57 a.m. – Caller reported a transient behind Napa refusing to leave, 899 Main St. Officer…
Drug investigation results in seven arrests
Police arrested seven people early Wednesday morning, Oct. 15, after police officers executed a narcotics-related search warrant at…
Newberry offers volcanic experience
It began with a sound like distant thunder – but the skies were clear. Suddenly the ground shook…
Huskies could be on cusp of making boys soccer history after win over Sutherlin
In a game that matched their best so far this season in boys soccer on Oct. 14, the…
Sweet Home downs Sutherlin, then falls to CG in girls soccer
The Huskies traded goals at Sutherlin in girls soccer during the first couple of minutes then settled into…