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Council approves fiber optics deal for city
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week approved a deal with CenturyLink to provide fiber…
Practice makes perfect as Huskies win state forestry title
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home High School won the state championship in forestry April 26-27 at the Hopkins…
Council gives preliminary OK to use old City Hall for business incubator
Sean C. Morgan Local economic development organizations want to open a small business incubator and shared work space…
$50K needs assessment study first step towards proposed library upgrades
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week approved a nearly $50,000 contract to complete a…
Photographers invited to enter City Hall lobby contest
The Sweet Home Oregon Coalition for Artistic and Scholastic Enrichment is hosting a photography contest in search of…
State Forestry Champs
Members of the Sweet Home High School forestry team competed Friday and Saturday at the Hopkins Demonstration Forest…
Dick Knowles stays active as advocate for mental health
Sarah Brown In one month, Dick Knowles will reach the age of 75. While to some that may…
Three blazes on Friday keep SHFAD crewmembers busy
Two separate fires destroyed an old camper and burned a quarter acre of brush Friday afternoon, April 26,…
Crash damages SHFAD ambulance, injures medic
A Sweet Home paramedic was injured in a crash involving a Sweet Home ambulance Saturday morning, April 27,…
Councilors approve raises for non-union city employees
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week approved raises for several positions not represented by…
Sunshine Spaghetti Feed a record-setter
The spring fundraiser season kicked off Satruday, April 20, at Sunshine Industries with the organization’s annual Spaghetti Feed.…
Plan to use levy funds for city administration raises objections
Sean C. Morgan The City of Sweet Home Budget Committee held off on final decisions Monday night, April…
Nearly three dozen horses removed from Lebanon-area property
Linn County Sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant and seized 34 horses from a property on Berlin Road,…
Unpaved city streets to get fixes
Sean C. Morgan The surface of 32nd Court and Juniper Street between 32nd Court and 35th Avenue, behind…
Foster fish weir working – mostly
Scott Swanson A new fish weir installed a year ago in Foster Dam is working – mostly, a…
New office staff adding some muscle at SH chamber
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce is in the process of rebuilding its programs after…
Sweet Home to host elite small-school track meet Saturday
Scott Swanson When Dakotah Keys was starring in track at Sweet Home High School a decade ago, the…
Report of alleged kidnapping leads to multiple arrests in SH
Police arrested a Sweet Home man Thursday in connection to the alleged kidnapping and assault of a 25-year-old…
Cadaver shortage spurs LBCC to buy virtual version
Sarah Brown When faculty members told Kristina Holton, dean of Linn-Benton Community College’s Science, Engineering and Math division,…
Police say they plan to focus on downtown traffic issues
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Police Department will spend time in the upcoming months addressing traffic issues in…
Dodgeball tournament turns out to be real hit
Kris Latimer, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam, wasn’t really sure what…
Grant ensures continued visits to PCC by mobile ultrasound van
Sean C. Morgan A grant from the Sweet Home Community Foundation will help ensure that a mobile medical…
SH man gets six months after no-contest plea to sex charge
Nishan Singh, 58, of Sweet Home was sentenced to six months in jail April 5 in Linn County…