Commissioners weighing future of SH Justice Court
Sean C. Morgan The Linn County Board of Commissioners is considering whether to close the Sweet Home Justice…
Tests show variety of pollutants on mill land
Sean C. Morgan Health and environmental agencies have completed a four-year process of testing and investigation at the…
FBI: Sweet Home’s crime rate dipped last year as state’s rose
Sean C. Morgan Based on data collected by the FBI, while crime rates increased statewide, Sweet Home’s crime…
City to collect transient occupancy tax for county
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council approved a resolution Sept. 25 to begin collecting transient occupancy…
Interest in city water, concerns about arsenic, vary widely
Sean C. Morgan One property owner has said he has no interest in connecting to city water while…
Two businesses initial city CEIP grant recipients
Sean C. Morgan The City of Sweet Home is funding two projects through its Commercial Exterior Improvement Program.…
Learning program returns, this time to Oak Heights
Sean C. Morgan Students struggling in school will have more opportunities to get help this year as the…
Officials: Test scores show academic growth
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Schools Supt. Tom Yahraes and Rachel Stucky, director of teaching and learning, say…
SH student test scores improve
Sean C. Morgan More Sweet Home students met or exceeded testing standards in the 2017-18 school year than…
K9 Jamboree turns out to be a lot of fun – especially for dogs
Sean C. Morgan Dogs had their day Saturday, Sept. 22, at the inaugural Cascade K9 Jamboree, which focused…
Owners honored for 29 years of effort in timber propagation
Sean C Morgan Sherman and Leslie Weld, Linn County’s Tree Farmers of 2018, are managing their tree farm…
Board OKs plan to fund SHJH project
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home School Board Monday approved a resolution allowing the School District to spend…
City makes changes at Sankey in effort to ‘take back’ park
Sean C Morgan Big changes continue at Sankey Park as part of the city’s effort to “take back”…
School starts smoothly as SHJH prepares for construction project
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home principals reported smooth opening weeks of school as the new year began on…
Here and gone: Tennessee walker takes no breaks on way across U.S.
Sean C. Morgan A Tennessee man walked through Sweet Home Monday, Sept. 10, as he neared the end…
Local quilters produce skirts for capitol Christmas trees
Sean C. Morgan A group of Sweet Home quilters on Friday, Sept. 7, turned in the last of…
Hawthorne renovations completed in time for new school year
Sean C. Morgan Hawthorne Elementary School has some 70 new faces this year, but the biggest of them…
Sweet Home adopting new approach to leaf collection
Sean C. Morgan For decades, when tree leaves start dropping as fall arrives, city officials have asked residents…
Fire danger reduced after rainfall
Sean C. Morgan With some rainfall over the weekend, local fire danger levels fell to “moderate” and Industrial…
Editorial: Councilors must avoid quorum on D.C. trip
Sean C. Morgan Public meetings laws are important for us, the citizens of Oregon. At the risk of…
City looking for grant for sidewalks around SHJH
Sean C. Morgan The City of Sweet Home is pursuing a grant to construct sidewalks around Sweet Home…
Garbage rate increase moves forward
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week held the first two readings of an ordinance…
Council selects three members to travel to Washington, D.C.
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council voted 6-0 to send three members to Washington, D.C., for…
Logger finds hobby in woodworking
Sean C. Morgan In a case of real-life foreshadowing, Kody Marvin was the Tin Woodman in the Sweet…
City Hall goes to bid
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week approved plans to seek bids to remodel the…