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Events: Aug. 27, 2025
Tomato Day at Lebanon market The Lebanon Downtown Farmers’ Market and the Santiam Food Alliance will hold Tomato…
Death Notices: Aug. 27, 2025
Nellie Hanft Jan. 4, 1948 – Aug. 24, 2025 Nellie June Hanft, 77, of Brownsville, passed away Aug.…
UPDATED Police Logs: Aug. 27, 2025
Information for the Public Safety report and Courts in The New Era is sourced from local law enforcement…
Greener grass a big driver in settlement of Sweet Home
By Roberta McKern For The New Era Mankind – pardon, “humankind” – has ever been inclined to go…
Sweet National Night Out
National Night Out this year was the first event to be held on 13th Avenue between Long and…
Fire damages three South Fork trailers
A firefighter and police officer Sean Potter douse flames in a burning motor home at South Fork mobile…
Firefighters respond to large vegetation fire off Rice Road
Firefighters from multiple local agencies are working to battle a large vegetation fire located between Rice Road and…
From Our Files: Aug. 27, 2025
Aug. 31, 1950 Police are looking for a capricious clock snatcher who took two electric clocks from the…
Scene Around Town: Aug. 20, 2025
Learning about Health Sweet Home held its eighth annual Health Fair Saturday, Aug. 16, in the Activities Gym…
Wolthuis daughters to perform in church’s anniversary
Fifty years ago, the newly completed meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1155…
Kathleen Franks
Kathleen Franks Feb. 10, 1933 – Aug. 4, 2025 Kathleen Franks, 92, died Aug. 4, 2025, following a…
Death Notices: Aug. 20, 2025
Larry Hoffman Sr. Feb. 8, 1941- Aug. 16, 2025 Larry Neal Hoffman Sr., 84, of Sweet Home, passed…
Sandra Kay Smith
Sandra Smith Sept. 30, 1960 – Aug. 14, 2025 Sandra Kay Smith, 64, of Sweet Home, passed away…
Connie Rae Rye
Connie Rye March 9, 1954 – June 23, 2025 Connie Rae Rye, 71, of Sweet Home, passed away…
Police Logs: Aug. 20, 2025
Information for the Public Safety report and Courts in The New Era is sourced from local law enforcement…
Circuit Court: Aug. 20, 2025
Information for the Public Safety report and Courts in The New Era is sourced from local law enforcement…
Real Estate Sold: Aug. 20, 2025
Following are Lebanon, Sweet Home, and Brownsville area real estate transactions recorded with the county during late July…
Hands on History this Saturday
Hands on History returns to Brownsville Saturday, Aug. 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Library Park,…
Sweet Home mayor’s other passion is Children’s Literacy Project
By Satina Tolman For The New Era Sweet Home Mayor Susan Coleman is best known for her leadership…
From Our Files: Aug. 20, 1950
Aug. 24, 1950 A modern, new lookout, which will be manned for the first time next year, was…
‘Plein Air’ Artist Event
Interested in discovering your inner artist? If so, opportunity awaits at the inaugural “Plein Air” Artist Event, a…
Scene Around Town: Aug. 13, 2025
Rock jumper injured in Cascadia Medics and Sheriff’s personnel remove a young man who fell at the Big…
William Douglas Marshall
Douglas Marshall Services for William Douglas Marshall, 70, who died June 27, 2025, will be held from 1…
Floyd D. Williams
Floyd Williams March 4, 1944 – Aug. 1, 2025 Floyd D. Williams, 81, of Sweet Home, passed away…
Vincia “Norene” Dennis
Norene Dennis Sept. 30, 1961 – Aug. 5, 2025 Vincia “Norene” Dennis, 63, of Sweet Home, passed away…