From Our Files

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…

Jan. 27, 1972 Last week’s storm that dumped 2.32 inches of rain on Sweet Home and even greater…

January 20, 1972 It was learned Wednesday that the contract of Douglas Olds, school superintendent for four years,…

Jan. 13, 1972 City Council members voted to install a two-line emergency phone to the police station, to…

Jan. 6, 1972 The aftermath of a duck hunting trip for a group of boys resulted in one…

Dec. 30, 1971 Cats like to travel, but surely Minnie didn’t intend to go to Portland when she…

Dec. 23, 1971 Linn County deputy sheriffs arrested men from Albany and Independence on charges of possessing stolen…

Dec. 16, 1971 Tree branches, garbage cans and debris littered streets here last week following a strong evening…

Dec. 9, 1971 A 1913 poster for a wood and steel hydraulic cider press was on show for…

Dec. 2, 1971 Those who braved the recent “Oregon mists” no doubt noticed a decided difference in the…

Nov. 25, 1971 Nearly 600 people showed up to the public hearing concerning the designation of the South…

Nov. 18, 1971 Linn County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the theft of a battery charger taken from a…

Nov. 11, 1971 Sweet Home’s zoo boasts its first inhabitant, Napoleon the llama, who has been holding out…