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Principal Terry Martin stands on the bank of a pond on a sunny summer morning and baits a hook for one of some 25 middle-school-aged teens, all with fishing rods, milling about and casting into the wa...

Dr. Larry Horton was named this year's recipient of Sweet Home's Distinguished Service Award and Karla Hogan earned First Citizen honors at the annual Chamber of Commerce Awards dinner, held Saturday...

On a sizzling afternoon, while most Sweet Home residents are likely seeking shade and iced-tea pitchers, Carolyn McDermed and Marilyn Kragness hoof it along a country road – at a very accelerated pa...

After more than a year of COVID restrictions, including an eight-month shutdown, how is Little Promises Children's Program doing? It's been difficult, said Erik Duncan, chairman of the board, a year...

To say that Fred Dodge is one of the most-recognized faces in Sweet Home is no exaggeration. Dodge retired Sunday, July 11, from Hoy's Hardware, where he's been the answer man for decades to all...

Haley Nunez was named 2021 Sportsman's Holiday Queen Thursday evening, July 8, during an outdoor program held at the amphitheater at Community Chapel. Before an audience of approximately 150 people,...

Two dozen girls sat on the floor of Sweet Home High School's Main Gym Thursday, July 8, watching two college women wrestlers demonstrate how to turn an opponent to score points in a freestyle match....

When Sweet Home High School students enter the school library this fall, they will be greeted by a remembrance of a teacher well known to many of their older relatives: Myrtle Gates. Gates taught...

Nelia Taraski is now able to vote. And run for local office. And visit her parents without fear of big hassles at the border. Taraski, 51, who has been director at Little Promises Preschool since...

George Hughes had no idea what was coming when he rolled up to a strange house on Tuesday, June 16, with his daughter, Valerie Goff, and granddaughter Samantha. Inside, the living room was packed...

Sweet Home finished a COVID-shortened wrestling season Saturday, June 26, with an exclamation point – the Huskies' first team state title since 2017 and the school's ninth overall, and four individu...

Sweet Home's girls kicked off what Coach Steve Thorpe described as a "wild weekend" for the wrestling team by scoring a second-place finish in the state tournament Thursday, June 24, at Cottage...

Sweet Home alum Michael D. Gaskins had served four years in the Air Force and was thinking about getting out and going to college when he had a "defining moment." When terrorists slammed jetliners int...

Thursday, June 17, was a big day for Sweet Home as 21 wrestlers qualified for the state tournament. But the Huskies' last qualifier was the one that electrified the crowd in Sweet Home's Main Gym, a...

Long-awaited, big healthcare changes are coming to Sweet Home, city and corporate officials announced Thursday, June 10, during a meeting hosted by Wiley Creek Community. The senior residence...

Seven young women make up this year's Sportsman's Holiday Court as the annual community celebration, scheduled for July 8-11, nears. Members of the court are high school juniors Paige Chafin,...

Kevin Hill admits that he didn't plan to stay long when he arrived in Sweet Home on Memorial Day weekend in 2001 to pastor Holley Christian Church. "Actually, I was only intending to stay at this...

County parks staff last week began installing water safety barriers around the swimming area at Lewis Creek Park. The county decided to install the barriers last year after two 6-year-old children...

Local resident Nancy Shadomy loves to swim. "I was raised in southern Florida," she said. "I'm a fish. Swimming is my happy place." Shadomy, who retired recently from the U.S. Forest Service Sweet...

Tristan Calkins won the 4A state championship in the long jump, but his most dramatic moment came at the finish line in the state 200 meter final on Saturday, May 22, at Siuslaw High School in...