Grant Street closure Monday for paving
Grant Street between Main and Park streets in downtown Lebanon will be closed from 9 a.m. to 4…
New poll shows Drazan with slight lead in governor’s race
The result is in line with an earlier poll, but the Republican’s two-point lead is less than the…
Sweet Home remembers 9/11 with American Legion ceremony
Sept. 11, 2001 began “as just an ordinary Tuesday morning” 25 years ago, in the words of Sweet…
Rest in peace, Joan – and please ignore that typo
My introduction to Joan Scofield came in 2006, when she marched into The New Era newspaper office and…
Grant Street in Lebanon to be closed starting Monday
The second phase of the Grant and Sherman Street Reconstruction Project in the city of Lebanon is planned…
ELCA cross-country looks strong on girls side
New Head Coach Meggan Modderman comes into East Linn’s cross-country program with a team of veteran girls and…
Eagles, in reconfigured league, aiming for soccer playoffs
Chris Fenerty took the helm of the East Linn boys soccer team last year, leading them to an…
Growing cross-country program making strides
Lebanon’s cross-country team is starting young this year – with one senior on the boys side and one…
Warriors looking to climb ranks in MWC volleyball
Grace Tuli, Lebanon’s head volleyball coach, knows her players. Her senior leaders were freshmen when Tuli took over…
Retiring gallery curator displays one last exhibit – hers
Lee Roscoe-Bragg has been part of the east Linn County art scene since she arrived from northern California.…
Opinion: Lessons from 9/11 were often too temporary
My memories of 9/11 are getting a bit hazy, perhaps because I’m not really a morning person and…
Veteran Eagle spikers aiming for deeper dive at state
East Linn Christian’s volleyball team enters this season with some top-down changes – literally – to its lineup,…
Young, but veteran Huskies looking for big year in cross-country
Five years ago, Dave Martin took over a Sweet Home cross-country program that had been decimated by COVID…
Huskies building skills as they enter new division in boys soccer
Sweet Home’s boys soccer team is entering a new season that could be very different than what the…
Coach says he’s ‘excited’ by potential for girls soccer season
Sweet Home girls soccer Head Coach Ramiro Santana is “excited” as his team starts to answer the question:…
After week with Hotshots, SH wildland crew converges on local fire
Sweet Home’s Wildland Fire Crew 21 was working the Grasshopper Fire east of Mt. Hood earlier this month…
New Oak Heights principal running halls – in different way
Ryan Adams sits at his new desk at Oak Heights Elementary School in Sweet Home, a place where…
Fire destroys home, spreads over two acres on Fern Ridge
A manufactured home was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 18 on Fern Ridge, and spread into nearby…
SH Fire Board appoints Gaskey to fill vacancy; Johnson resigns
Although most of Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District’s top staffers were out fighting fires Tuesday, Aug. 18,…
Free MedTalk Luncheon to focus on addiction, recovery
The Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation will host a MedTalk Luncheon, The Recovery Recipe: Exploring the Ingredients of Addiction…
Second revived SH Rodeo bigger and better
The second year of the revived Sweet Home Rodeo outstripped its inaugural predecessor in both size and content. The…
New SHHS athletic director brings wealth of coaching, Leadership
Tomas Rosa has said many times, publicly, that he’s grateful that he grew up in Sweet Home. A…
East Ash Street closure this week in Lebanon
East Ash Street will be closed to through traffic between Main and Park streets between Tuesday, Aug. 11,…
Editorial: Getting better starts at home
A decade or two ago, I wouldn’t have devoted editorial opinion space to discussing the viability of newspapers.…
Shots fired between police, suspect, on Hwy. 20 near Riverbend
An incident that included gunfire between police and a suspect closed Highway 20 near River Bend County Park…