The New Era

James Reed Craver, 69, of Sweet Home died Aug. 14, 2009 after a long and courageous battle with…

Charles Donald Fritz, 62, of Sweet Home, died Aug. 13, 2009 at Corvallis Manor. He was born Oct.…

Vernon “Nick” C. Nivison, 80, of Foster died Aug. 15, 2009 at his home. He was born Jan.…

Robert Frederick McIntire, 78, of Sweet Home on the afternoon of Aug. 15, 2009 at a local nursing…

A former state champion wrestler for Sweet Home died early Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash near Junction…

Bob McIntire, 78, Longtime owner of Porta Via Motel and a city councilor for nine years, died on…

The opening of the Cedar Shack Drive-In last week was supposed to be a low-key affair, but the…

School District 55 administrators will review their campuses’ cell phone policies over the next month and bring a…

Shortly after he began working at Samaritan’s new physical therapy clinic at Sweet Home Family Medicine, veteran therapist…

Anne Sue Brady, 81, of Sweet Home, died Aug. 6, 2009 at a local nursing home. She was…

To most of the students gathered in the Sweet Home Junior High gym Monday for their sports physicals,…

Engineers working on a project at Shasta Dam early this year had a problem. A hundred feet above…

The Nandina Street Neighborhood Watch Group turned out Saturday night for a neighborhood barbecue as part of the…

Elbert Samuel Hackworth, 50, was acquitted on one charge of first-degree arson and found not guilty by a…

The Sweet Home Police Department has resurrected its bicycle patrol this summer. With the School Resource Officer position…

Sharon King has been serving as Sweet Home Emergency Ministries executive director since April 15. For the past…

The South Santiam Sweet Potato Queens will hold a fund-raising event for breast cancer research in connection to…

Donald “Wayne” Tenbusch, 61, of Albany died Aug. 6, 2009. He was born Feb. 14, 1948 in Dallas,…

Helen Martin, 63, of Sweet Home died Aug. 3, 2009 of ovarian cancer. She was born Sept. 8,…

Among major changes at Sweet Home Emergency Ministries, the organization has a new executive director, president and location.…

Sweet Home’s fourth-place Senior American baseball team, at right, shows off the trophy they won in Corvallis July…

A group of local residents who want to build a home for a disabled Sweet Home man were…

Last-minute ticket sales drove attendance upward to some 39,000 for the three-day 2009 Oregon Jamboree, the highest total…

Arita Dickinson Branscom, 86, of Salem and Sweet Home died in her sleep due to complications from pneumonia…

Shirley M. Gray, 73, of Sweet Home died at her home July 31, 2009. She was born Oct.…