Key Club raises $260 with 20-Hour Famine
The Sweet Home High School Key Club raised $260 with its 20-Hour Famine Feb. 18-19. Unlike last year,…
Dorothy Whitton
May 16, 1934 – March 1, 2007 Dorothy Ann Whitton, 72, of Sweet Home, died March 1, 2007.…
Dawn Peek
May 21, 1967 – Feb. 28, 2007 Dawn Peek, 39, of Albany died Feb. 23, 2007. She was…
Melvin Morris
May 24, 1923 – March 2, 2007 Melvin Morris, 83, of Junction City, died March 2, 2007 of…
Texas Driggs
Aug. 18, 1930-March 4, 2007 Texas Lee Driggs, 76, died March 4, 2007, at Good Samaritan Hospital in…
Donald Barton
Nov. 16, 1954 – March 2, 2007 Donald Barton, 52, of Hubbard died Friday, March 2, 2007 in…
Lillie Shockey
April 13, 1913 – Feb, 27, 2007 Lillie Mae Shockey, 93, of Sweet Home, died Feb. 27, 2007…
Stella Simpson
Aug. 2, 1920 – Feb. 26, 2007 Stella Simpson, 86, of Sweet Home died Feb. 26, 2007 in…
Problems with gambling
Editor: I am responding to the recent editorial by my friend, Sean Morgan, calling for social gaming to…
Ethanol may end smoke
Editor: In a front-page news story Monday, Feb. 26, in another paper, it was stated that ethanol was…
Women’s fashion for compassion
Editor: Saturday evening, Feb. 25, the Sweet Home, Lebanon and Albany Seventh-Day Adventist women’s ministries hosted a “Fashion…
Comics bring back memories
Editor: I put aside my paint brushes, pen and ink to drop you a line regarding the changes…
Daylight Saving Time is … unnatural
It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but we’re supposed to move our clocks forward one hour this…
Trahan named MVP for girls basketball
Tabby Trahan was named the Husky girls basketball team’s most valuable player during the annual awards dessert held…
It’s one and done for Huskies in hoops playoffs
The Huskies rode a wave over Central, handily beating the Panthers twice to get into the state playoffs…
Outdoors: ATVs don’t hurt people; people hurt people
Shane Ullrich As an outdoorsman, there are many tools and equipment that we use for many different purposes.…
State runner-up Danny Johnson named Outstanding Wrestler
Danny Johnson was announced as the season’s Outstanding Wrestler at the Huskies’ awards dinner on Friday, March 2.…
Little Egypt at Foster
Students in the after-school program at Foster School showed off the results of their study of ancient Egypt…
Local student suspended after bringing gun to school
An 11-year-old boy was taken into protective custody on Feb. 16 after allegedly taking a gun to school.…
Steve McCammon
Feb. 9, 1941-Feb. 5, 2007 Steve Roger McCammon, 65, died Feb. 5, 2007. He was born Feb. 9,…
Kenneth Umphress
June 20, 1983 – Feb. 12, 2007 Kenneth “Tate” Gene Umphress, 23, of Lebanon died Monday. He was…
Robert Howes
Dec. 21, 1918 – Feb. 11, 2007 Robert Elwood Howes, 88, of Sweet Home died Feb. 11, 2007.…
Thanks to alert witnesses
Editor: I would like to say thank you to Rick Oleager and his son for spotting the man…
About time on Hwy. 228
Editor: I’m driving into town, behind some idiot who’s swerving all over the road. Must be intoxicated. Well,…
Governor should cool it on warming
The heat is on in Oregon, politically, in the Global Warming controversy. Gov. Ted Kulongoski and the powers…