From Our Files

July 29, 1972 Isobella McKercher Braden retired as Postmaster of the Crawfordsville Post Office, which was raised from…

July 13, 1972 A Sweet Home airline stewardess has been grounded at the Democratic National Convention in Miami…

July 6, 1972 KFIR Radio, owned and operated by Santiam Broadcasters, has been purchased by KFIR, Inc. The…

June 29, 1972 The Sweet Home City Council voted to try to purchase the old Forest Service guard…

June 22, 1972 Lumber consumption in the U.S. in 1972 is estimated to set a new all-time record…

June 15, 1972 A potentially dangerous fire was averted at Cascadia by an employee of a gas company…

June 8, 1972 The Sweet Home School Board relieved Supt. Douglas Olds of all his official duties during…

June 1, 1972 The week was busy for firefighters as they were called to four area fires. A…

May 25, 1972 Sweet Home firemen answered a call from the Boise Cascade plant west of town to…

May 19, 1972 An electronic piano was presented to the Senior Citizens of Sweet Home. The Lebanon chapter…

May 11, 1972 Tammy Williams, 14, was taken to the hospital following a bike accident on Pleasant Valley…

May 4, 1972 David and Bridget Cooper will assume ownership and management of The New Era after buying…

April 27, 1972 About 50 people met with two representatives of the Department of Environmental Quality and officials…

April 20, 1972 Members of the Chamber of Commerce approved a resolution urging the DEQ to reconsider its…

April 13, 1972 The City Council took steps to rid the community of two nuisance and dangerous areas.…

April 6, 1972 Sweet Home will have its first nursing home in the near future. Application for building…

March 30, 1972 A pioneer cemetery was recently deeded to the Sweet Home Cemetery District by the Evangelical…

March 23, 1972 William V. Carpenter was named the Sweet Home Ranger District’s new district ranger. He began…

March 16, 1972 The District 55 School Board approved the hiring of a diversified occupations director and a…

March 9, 1972 City Manager Mike Gleason got an earful of complaints about flooding waters in the area…

March 2, 1972 Mrs. Jim Brown, owner of Maples Grocery at Cascadia, reports a third break-in within the…

Feb. 24, 1972 A traffic accident at 4219 Hwy. 20 sent Everett Taylor to the hospital and left…

Feb. 17, 1972 About 60 people crowded into the school district conference room for the school board meeting…

February 10, 1972 For the second time in eight days, a motel has been the target for out-of-control…

Feb. 3, 1972 A pickup truck wiped out one unit of the Porta Via Motel when driver David…