Volleyball team to test wings at Val-Co jamboree
Sweet Home kicks off its volleyball season with the standard conference jamboree at the host site, Central High…
Sweet Home boys place fourth in Portland to Coast relay
A team of boys from Sweet Home’s cross-country program finished fifth overall and fourth in its division Saturday…
CCC Reunion celebrates program’s 75th anniversary
The U.S. Forest Service Sweet Home Ranger District hosted a reunion Aug. 11 at Longbow Organizational Camp for…
Bible times come alive
Sweet Home Seventh Day Adventist Church’s exhibit Galilee by the Sea Sunday afternoon. The event gave participants a…
Crews respond to three area wrecks Aug. 13; three transported to SLCH
Emergency crews responded to three crashes in the Sweet Home area on Aug. 13, with at least two…
Hay truck, 20 acres burn along I-5
A fire that destroyed a semi truck and burned over 20 acres of land forced the closure of…
Siletz tribe donates to SHEM
Sweet Home Emergency Ministries was one of 40 organizations that received a share of $167,965 in charitable gifts…
OB Harper
June 3, 1929 – Aug. 12, 2008 OB Harper, 79, formerly of Sweet Home, died Aug. 12, 2008,…
Bonnie Johnston
Oct. 27, 1917 – Aug. 11, 2008 Bonnie Louella Johnston, 90, a longtime resident of Sweet Home and…
Rosalie Dannen
July 2, 1934 – Aug. 10, 2008 Rosalie Dannen, 74, of Halsey died Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008 in…
Robert Morris
Dec. 25, 1926 – Aug. 10, 2008 Robert “Bob” E. Morris, 81, of Sweet Home died Aug. 10,…
Daniel Hoagland
Sept. 23, 1953 – Aug. 11, 2008 Daniel Arthur Hoagland, MD, 54, of Lebanon, a family physician at…
Donna West
Jan. 20, 1946 – Aug. 6, 2008 Donna Joan West, 62, of Sweet Home died Aug. 6, 2008.…
Randall Buttenhoff
June 2, 1959 – Aug. 9, 2008 Former Sweet Home resident Randall Allen Buttenhoff, 49, passed away on…
Family of deceased thankful for help
Editor: The family of Anna Boer would like to thank everyone for the cards, flowers and prayers. Thanks…
Free speech necessary, if painful
Every so often a reader will tell us how they’d like not to see letters on these pages…
Realize potential for tourist traffic
Editor: An interesting fact about Sweet Home is that it lies on Highway 20, the only highway in…
Youngsters play soccer
T.J. Baham , left, and Justin Tow work on their ball-handling skills during a dribbling drill for the…
Football Players go to Camp
Cody Felkins, right, and Caleb Keeney work on blocking skills during last week’s football camp. The annual football…
Nick Pitts plays in East-West Shrine All-Star Shrine game
Sweet Home High School alumnus Nick Pitts, left, appears with teammates, John Pratt, left, of Central, and Cody…
Pre-season practice
Sweet Home High School cheerleaders get in an early-morning preseason workout last week.
Raid nets pot plants at two homes on Riggs Hill
Sheriff’s investigators seized nearly 100 marijuana plants at two residences in the Foster area on Thursday, Sheriff Tim…
Donations for Cooper
Volunteers stand amid some of the contributions to a garage sale held on the last weekend of July…
Mallory Carlson, Aaron Hegge to wed
Mallory Brooke Carlson and Aaron Scott Hegge have announced a Sept. 20 wedding. Carlson is the daughter of…
Sweet Home contestants among Fair winners
Below are local ribbon winners at the 2008 Linn County Fair, as reported by Fair officials: Department 7…