The New Era

Sweet Home €“ what better name for a hamlet nestled above the Willamette Valley? Naturally, most people don’t…

With just a couple of days to go before the big event, Jamboree staff is busy with last-minute…

The City Council will decide whether to begin the process of creating urban renewal districts to help improve…

Sweet Home will hold its first downtown SALEbration from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 25 in…

Vernon A. Sturdevant, 73, of Sweet Home died July 10, 2009. He was born April 13, 1936 in…

Shoremasters employee James Henthorne of Camberton, Mo., puts together a section of the new Edgewater Marina floating docks…

Jeannie Anderson, top, lets her skirts fly as she dances to a drum solo by John Marzicola, who…

The U.S. Forest Service is offering two free backpacking trips into Gordon Lakes for families with youngsters over…

Brothers Colton and Tyler Schilling of Sweet Home both won All-America honors at the national tournament in Orem,…

Three Sweet Home School District Transportation drivers were among the winners in both regional and state school bus…

The Linn County Board of Commissioners has agreed to provide nearly $50,000 toward the cost of funding a…

Veterans turned out in force to welcome the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall to Albany last week. Above, a…

Tina Marie Gibbs, 27, pleaded no contest to first-degree arson on July 2. She was sentenced to 16…

The Linn County Board of Commissioners approved 3-0 an outdoor assembly permit on July 15 for up to…

Sweet Home Police were able to talk a 50-year-old man into coming out of his home on Tuesday…

Linn County Fair attendance was a little below average this year, while the financial success of the event…

Bruce Lawrence Edney, 57, of Greenville, Calif., died June 26, 2009. He was born March 14, 1952 in…

Robert L. “Vern” Edney, 86, of Lebanon, died July 15 in Sweet Home. He was born Aug. 27,…

Genevieve Ethel (Shilts) Partridge, 77, of Albany died July 17, 2009. She was born June 20, 1932 in…

Gregory Hyman Smith, 57, of Sweet Home died July 19, 2009 at his home. He was born Dec.…

Zelma Kolousek, 83, of Sweet Home died July 16. 2009. She was born May 28, 1926 in Seiling,…

Amanda Russell, 15, was named queen of the Frontier Sportsman’s Holiday Court at a coronation ceremony held Thursday…

Sweet Home’s Maria Kropf has qualified for the Junior Olympics national track and field championships in two weeks…

Former Sweet Home star pitcher Makenzie Marchbanks has signed to play softball for Corban College. Marchbanks, a 5-foot-6…

Samaritan Health Services and Pomona-based Western University of Health Sciences have begun construction of the Samaritan Health Sciences…