Donors come through for Sankey upgrades
Sean C. Morgan The city Park and Tree Commission has reached its fund-raising goal of $132,000 to match…
Basset hound, icon at local barber shop, remembered
Sean C. Morgan Some businesses have regulars who customers may sometimes find remarkable and memorable. Think Norm of…
City Council formulates goals during three-day focus session
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council will likely continue into the next year with a slightly…
City explores ideas for Main Street crossing at 22nd Avenue
Sean C. Morgan The City of Sweet Home is looking at options to provide a safer pedestrian crossing…
City builds funding for sewer plant
Sean C. Morgan If everything goes just right, City Manager Ray Towry told the City Council March 12,…
Temporary dead ends
Sean C. Morgan Hallways lead to barriers. Doorways in the gym open to wooden walls where the locker…
Community Foundation awards nearly $13,000 in grants
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Community Foundation last week awarded $12,787 in grants to seven charities and…
SH Sanitation won’t increase garbage rates
Sean C. Morgan A Waste Connections company official told the Sweet Home City Council last week that Sweet…
Talent contest April 6
Sean C. Morgan The annual talent contest to raise funds for arts in Sweet Home, SHARC Showdown V,…
Blast from the past
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Junior High PE and health teacher Craig Wilson was a little worried last…
Superintendent: Snow Day decisions involve multiple people, are not hasty
Sean C. Morgan Deciding whether to cancel school, delay school or go ahead and have school is an…
School Board decides not to extend school for snow days – if unions agree
Sean C. Morgan The School Board voted Monday night to try to add makeup days without extending school…
Crawfordsville firefighter Kropf gets top SHFAD honor; Hickcox named top cop
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District and Sweet Home Police Department named six award…
Veterans, multiple pitching options have softball team aiming high
Sean C. Morgan This year’s Sweet Home High School softball team returns a lot of experience, flexibility in…
District to look into water wells
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home School Board instructed Supt. Tom Yahraes Monday night, Feb. 11, to look…
Huskies enter season aiming to make run in baseball playoffs
Sean C. Morgan Returning eight players, a deep, flexible Sweet Home High School baseball team is looking to…
SHJH kids getting real busy
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Junior High has nearly achieved a goal Vice Principal and Athletic Director Terry…
City fund-raising to get matching grant to fix up Sankey Park
Sean C. Morgan To meet a grant matching requirement, city officials are conducting a month-long fund-raising campaign to…
City to contract with COG rather than hire new planner
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week approved an inter-governmental agreement with the Oregon Cascades…
County planning to auction former Willamette Industries mill site
Sean C. Morgan The Linn County Board of Commissioners is moving forward with plans to auction off some…
Slow snowy Monday in SH
Sean C. Morgan The snow finally stuck in Sweet Home early Monday morning, after a series of close…
Water rate hike on table for next year’s budget
Sean C. Morgan As city officials prepare the budget for 2019-20, they plan to include an incremental increase…
Planners approve Strawberry Ridge cul-de-sac subdivision
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Planning Commission, during its regular meeting on Feb. 19, approved an eight-lot…
Sister: Local homeless man died after he was found with hypothermia
Sean C. Morgan A 55-year-old Sweet Home homeless man, who was found earlier this month suffering from hypothermia,…
‘Importance of Being Earnest’ to be staged at high school
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home High School students will present the Oscar Wilde play “The Importance of Being…