Eagles beat Enterprise in 2A playoffs; now face No. 1 Trinity
East Linn’s boys dispatched Enterprise 67-54 Friday, Feb. 27, in the first round of the 2A Division state…
SHJH unified team draws enthusiastic crowd for first game
Sweet Home Junior High unveiled its new Unified Basketball program as the Tigers hosted French Prairie. The game…
Lebanon firefighters find fire in kitchen
Lebanon firefighters responded Monday morning, March 2, to a report of a structure fire in the 35000 block…
Cheadle Lake park entrances to be closed for construction
Beginning Monday, March 2, the three northern driveways to the Cheadle Lake parking lot off Weirich Drive in…
Linda Ziedrich quiet leader in many Lebanon efforts
Linda Ziedrich sits in her living room, an assortment of books scattered across the table in front of…
ELCA boys finish perfect run through league, ready for playoffs
Capping a 10-0 run through the Valley Coast League boys basketball competition, East Linn Christian warmed up for…
Buczko a near miss for Lebanon in state swim finals
Lebanon sent an individual swimmer, senior Orianna Buczko, and three relay teams to the 5A state championships last…
Warriors deliver state cheer title
It was a rookie team but that didn’t faze the Warriors as Lebanon’s competition cheer squad won the…
SH cheer squad ends string of runner-up finishes with title
Sweet Home’s competition cheer squad won the OSAA 4A state championship Saturday, Feb. 14, in decisive fashion, finishing…
Scene Around Town: Feb. 18, 2026
Fish Art Installation on Main Street Above, Brian Womack of the Sweet Home Public Works Department digs a…
SH School Board OK’s bond measure for May 19 election
Sweet Home School Board members on Monday, Feb. 9, approved language for a bond measure for the May…
Warrior relays, Orianna Buczko, qualify for state
Lebanon’s swimmers qualified three relays and Orianna Buczko made state in two individual events as the Warriors competed…
First deadline for Samaritan medical scholarships is Feb. 19
The Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation and the Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital Auxiliary are now accepting applications for their…
St. Helen priest followed winding path to Sweet Home
The Rev. Scott Baier didn’t intend to become a priest, though he grew up in a Catholic family.…
Editorial: Are state leaders getting this picture?
It’s been a remarkable sequence of events in Salem in the last six months, particularly since the new…
Upward Bound program giving SHHS students leg up
Jayla Moore and Michelle Slayton knew they were not in Sweet Home any more when, in the middle…
Hoodoo owner recounts ups and downs of journey
Like most of the enterprises Chuck Shepard has thrown himself into, the ins and outs of owning a…
Update: Sweet Home man arrested for criminally negligent homicide
A Sweet Home man was arrested for criminally negligent homicide early Tuesday morning, Feb. 3, after an altercation…
Fire destroys home on Port Drive
A rural home on Port Drive was destroyed in a fire that started late Tuesday night, Jan. 27. …
Lebanon volunteer fair draws ‘overwhelming’ response
Organizers of the Connect for Lebanon volunteer recruitment event, held Saturday, Jan. 17, at the Boulder Falls Event…
SHFAD board approves health screening contract
Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District Board members on Wednesday, Jan. 21, approved a contract that will provide…
SH School Board approves network upgrades for district
Sweet Home School Board members took a step Monday, Jan. 12, to modernize the district’s IT network capabilities…
SH hosts Lebanon in unified hoops
Sweet Home’s unified basketball team hosted Lebanon Thursday, Jan. 15, in the Main Gym, with most of the…
Suspect arrested after 1st Avenue standoff
Law enforcement officials from Sweet Home, Linn County and Albany converged on the 900 block of 1st Avenue…
Manna Meals program goes into hibernation
Sweet Home Emergency Ministries announced last week that its Manna Meals program has been discontinued for the foreseeable…