Best in the West triathlon event back, bigger than ever
Scott Swanson Sweet Home’s Kambria Schumacher has been steadily rising through the ranks of Northwest triathletes over the…
New season means new starting line-up for Husky football
Scott Swanson Head Football Coach Dustin Nichol and his players were to open their 2015 season Friday night,…
Something to be said for old-fashioned reporting
Scott Swanson I suspect I’m not the only one who takes breaking news broadcasts with a grain of…
2015 Preview: Spikers have height, experience; now they need to win games
Scott Swanson After a four-year dearth of state volleyball playoff appearances, has the Huskies’ moment arrived? That’s the…
DeFazio sees ‘collaboration’ as key to forest management
Scott Swanson Rep. Peter DeFazio has long had a reputation as an independent in Congress, particularly on trade…
Breakfast at Holley
Scott Swanson Parents and students got a chance to chow down Monday morning, Aug. 31, on the first…
First Weyerhaeuser millsite meeting draws sizeable crowd
Scott Swanson The subject of what to do with the former Willamette Industries-Weyerhaeuser Sweet Home Mill site brought…
Season preview: Cross-country boys can pack in the runners; girls experienced, but thin
Scott Swanson One way to describe the Sweet Home boys cross-country team’s prospects going into this season is:…
Trip to South Africa more than just competition for SH wrestlers
Scott Swanson Coach Steve Thorpe says that if the wrestling trip he and the Oregon Cultural Exchange Team…
SHHS alum making rapid strides in world of trail running
Scott Swanson This Saturday, Aug. 22, Amanda Basham plans to run a 50-mile race through the forests of…
Lightning strike leaves Fern Ridge residents picking up pieces
Scott Swanson Ron and Connie Womack were in a bedroom of their home near the crest of Fern…
High-end housing project gets approval
Scott Swanson The Planning Commission on Aug. 4 unanimously approved a master plan for Lake Pointe Estates in…
Psychostock 6 to bring free and varied music to Sankey Park
Scott Swanson Sweet Home’s other music festival, Psychostock, will be held Saturday, Aug. 15, in Sankey Park. Coming…
Another great Jamboree hopefully one of many more
Scott Swanson Well, that was a sizzling Jamboree – in more ways than one. I remember, when I…
Without newspaper scrutiny, politics in a vacuum not pretty
Scott Swanson I read last week (in a newspaper) that the Daily Transcript of San Diego is about…
Chamber’s new gift shop features local arts, crafts
Scott Swanson Kristina Crabtree was getting tired of watching tourists roll right by the Sweet Home Chamber of…
Warm-weather tourist traffic has ‘overwhelmed’ county parks in biggest year ever
Scott Swanson Linn County Parks Director Brian Carroll and his staff knew if they ever had a mild…
Husky Field makeover
Scott Swanson After four weeks of work, including significant contributions of equipment and time from local companies and…
Longtime Husky Mary Hutchins takes reins of Sweet Home volleyball
Scott Swanson Mary Hutchins has spent almost a lifetime in the Sweet Home gymnasium, so as she takes…
Salmon run has plenty of fish – but not many that bite
Scott Swanson The Chinook salmon run at Foster Dam is the best in years, but some local fishermen…
Research effort’s focus is what happens to salmon before they spawn
Scott Swanson What happens to Chinook salmon after they leave the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ new $18.6…
Keys digs deep for decathlon 3rd
Scott Swanson Going into the 1500-meter run, the final event of the NCAA Division I decathlon championships, Dakotah…
NYC trip proves eye-opener for SHJH eighth-graders
Scott Swanson For eight Sweet Home Junior High art students, the highlight of their nine-day trip to New…
Lebanon medical school graduates first class of future doctors
Scott Swanson Western University of Health Sciences’ College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific-Northwest celebrated a landmark event…
State track: Hiett finishes second in 3000, 1500; Shamek fifth in long jump, girls relay sixth
Scott Swanson The 4×100 relay teams and distance runner Jakob Hiett put an exclamation point on Sweet Home’s…