Golf: Girls to field full team as boys rebuild from last year
Scott Swanson Sweet Home will have a full girls golf team this year for the first time in…
Lin Gagner named Distinguished Citizen at chamber awards banquet
Scott Swanson Lin Gagner was named Sweet Home’s Distinguished Citizen for 2015 and Kristen Adams was named First…
Rotarians take lead on trails at Hobart Park
Scott Swanson Sweet Home Trails Committee will host a trail walk at 10 a.m. this Saturday, March 12,…
Husky girls win state swimming title, boys third
Scott Swanson When Lucie Davis, Jessica Coats and Lauren Yon were junior high-aged members of the Sweet Home…
Tourism team aims to bring visitors to county, SH – by the busload
Scott Swanson Picture luxury buses full of tourists rolling into Sweet Home – and stopping here. That’s what…
Freshman Marissa Kurtz says winning title more than she expected
Scott Swanson Freshman Marissa Kurtz won Sweet Home’s second girls state wrestling title Saturday, Feb. 27, at the…
Popular culture, engineering mix it up in Hawthorne egg drop competition
Scott Swanson The biggest surprise at Hawthorne School’s Egg Drop Challenge Thursday, Feb. 25, was the contraption that…
Couple of ‘lovebugs’ celebrate 70 years of marriage
Scott Swanson Joe Gallipeau was in the U.S. Navy in 1945, living in San Diego, Calif., when his…
Wrestlers back on trophy podium with fourth-place finish, two individual titles
Scott Swanson Sweet Home’s wrestlers earned their first state trophy in three years Saturday, Feb. 27, with a…
Local family’s ‘nightmare’ trip has more happy ending
Scott Swanson Dr. Alan Blake sits in a comfortable armchair in his living room, listening intently as family…
Husky girls win district swim title; boys second
Scott Swanson Sweet Home’s girls team won the District 3 Swimming Championships Saturday by a comfortable 94-point margin…
Local anglers build platform for public, disabled access
Scott Swanson Anglers who are disabled will soon have much better access to fish in the South Santiam…
Ex-Spartan takes over Sweet Home track program
Scott Swanson Alysson Bodenbach may have some big-time credentials, but she’s looking to take a low-key approach as…
Council calls on Samaritan for more services
Scott Swanson City Councilor Greg Mahler laid out his case Tuesday, Jan. 19, for urgent care in Sweet…
Council calls for increased medical services in SH
Scott Swanson City Councilor Greg Mahler laid out his case Tuesday, Jan. 19, for urgent care in Sweet…
‘Uncle. We got it.’
Scott Swanson Wiley Creek is staying put. That was the message from Samaritan Health officials, who ate crow…
Administrator: Wiley Creek decision by Saturday
Scott Swanson Samaritan Health is in a “holding pattern” on the planned shutdown of Wiley Creek Community’s assisted…
Calm amidst chaos: Fire chaplain assists victims, department personnel in times of trauma
Scott Swanson Last summer, a rural hillside home outside Sweet Home caught fire on a Sunday morning. When…
Reynolds, Burnett retire from LBCC
Scott Swanson Thursday, Dec. 31, will be the final day of school for Mary Sue Reynolds and Alice…
Trail, forest plans take shape as collaborative zeroes in on nonprofit status
Scott Swanson The South Santiam All-Lands Collaborative is about to become more structured as the final steps for…
In the entertaining rush of life, don’t lose sight of the basics
Scott Swanson It may simply be a result of age, but it seems to me that life is…
SH to revisit urban renewal
Scott Swanson City Council members agreed to look into the possibility of urban renewal as a means of…
New swim coach knows, by experience, what it takes to be excellent
Scott Swanson Four years ago, Jake Johnson did not see himself coaching elite swimmers at the Sweet Home…
Let’s give thanks for … moisture
Scott Swanson As Thanksgiving closes in, now seems like a good time to mention one thing for which…
Locals lead effort to get injured veterans into outdoors
Scott Swanson On a not-so-dark night just before Halloween, Mark Worley and Timm Gunderson hunkered down in a…