Krystina Tack returns home to help prostate victims
Sean C. Morgan After developing a career as a medical physicist with prostate cancer research and clinical experience,…
Students learn to deal with invasive species
Sean C. Morgan Four Sweet Home High School students spent Saturday morning, April 28, finding and cataloging invasive…
City Council: Ex-Frontier should get new chance
Sean C. Morgan Ernie Volkers and Manuel L. Victor are hoping to soon reopen the old Frontier bar…
School funding picture looking slightly rosier
Sean C. Morgan While forecasts are optimistic for school funding in the 2013-15 biennium, School District 55 will…
Cross-country cyclists, led by ex-cop, ride for pot
Sean C. Morgan Three men riding bicycles across the country, from Newport to Savannah, Ga., Passed through Sweet…
Water station proposal prompts questions
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Budget Committee member Dave Trask questioned the wisdom of including a $130,000 water…
City budget for 2012-13 14% leaner
Sean C. Morgan The city of Sweet Home’s proposed 2012-13 budget is 14 percent smaller than the 2011-12…
Incumbent commissioner faces Position 3 challenger
Sean C. Morgan Tucker says he’s experienced, gets things done Commissioner Will Tucker says he brings experienced, proven…
Lifesaver
Sean C. Morgan Custodian credited with aiding choking third-grader When 8-year-old Mary Maschke started choking during lunch on…
Linn zombies to invade area towns this month
Sean C. Morgan LB Productions is planning to make the streets of central Linn County run red with…
Council holds line on bill for departed cops
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council denied a request by the city of Lebanon for a…
Levy asks voters to buoy pool
Sean C. Morgan School District 55 is asking voters to approve a local option levy to pay for…
Owners: new Main Street store not ‘adult shop’
Sean C. Morgan A Lebanon couple opened a shop selling tobacco and adult novelties on Main Street March…
HS athletic director arrested
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home police arrested Sweet Home High School Athletic Director, Kostanty Stephen Knurowski, 33, last…
Council raises sewer rates but draws line on water
Sean C. Morgan Beginning in July, residential water rates will remain at the same level as they have…
Sportsman’s Holiday Parade Committee seeking funds for insurance, awards
Sean C. Morgan The Sportsman’s Holiday Parade committee must raise $530 for insurance by the end of the…
Budding foresters learn safety at Fire School
Sean C. Morgan Seventeen members of the Sweet Home High School Forestry Club spent three days last week…
Snow forces board to add 1 extra day
Sean C. Morgan The school year will be extended by one day to make up for one of…
Historic rose to be planted at museum
Sean C. Morgan Northwest Rose Historians will plant a descendant of a rose bush Samuel R. Nothiger brought…
Council decides to settle part of claim by former park caretakers
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council agreed on March 27 to settle a wage claim by…
Council to consider new variance code
Sean C. Morgan If the Sweet Home City Council follows the Planning Commission’s advice, Sweet Home residents may…
Finance panel urges city to collect on cops
Sean C. Morgan The city Administration and Finance Committee is recommending that the City Council charge the full…
Firefighter of the year has business in his bloodlines
Sean C. Morgan Firefighting is in Jared Huenergardt’s blood. He grew up around firefighters, and going to work…
City poised to receive 25th straight Tree City designation
Sean C. Morgan The city of Sweet Home will receive receive its 25th Tree City USA award on…
A&E Railroad, neighbors work through issues
Sean C. Morgan Property owners who have railroad crossings have been concerned about a letter sent by Albany…