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Sweet Home Gleaners needs volunteers, upgrades and equipment
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Gleaners have been making some improvements over the last couple of years,…
Gleaners: Fair Share cooperative seeks new facilities
Sean C. Morgan When life goes sideways, sometimes people need a hand; and even with reasonably strong incomes,…
Update: Wildfire near Potato Hill has Highway 20 closed
A wildfire continues to burn along Highway 20 near milepost 76, about five miles west of Santiam Pass,…
Weather break lowers fire danger
The Oregon Department of Forestry downgraded the fire danger level from extreme to high early last week after…
Solar spectacular
The first total eclipse of the sun viewable in Sweet Home in nearly 40 years left impressed spectators…
Sweet Home American Legion faces loss of building – to wear and tear
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home American Legion, Post 133, is looking for help with a deteriorating building…
Longtime teacher Barbi Riggs named principal at Hawthorne School
Sean C. Morgan Barbi Riggs, a veteran of the Hawthorne Elementary School teaching staff, has been named the…
Stars and Stripes
PFC Jacob Allen Maas graduated from basic training in the U.S. Marines in San Diego Aug. 4. A…
Correction: PEO scholarships awarded to local women
The Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.) Chapter FA, Sweet Home, Oregon is pleased to announce that all three women…
Letters to the editor: City stepped up for eclipse visitors
In the past week and a half, the city (officials, volunteers and business owners) really stepped to come…
Local astronomer: Eclipse to be ‘nature’s grandest spectacle’
Sarah Brown Local astronomers from the Heart of the Valley Astronomer’s Club made themselves available at a series…
Aug. 19 Sweet Home Health Fair to be bigger, include public safety
Sean C. Morgan The second annual Sweet Home Community Health Fair will be significantly bigger than the first…
Council OKs lease of police patrol unit
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week authorized Police Chief Jeff Lynn to lease a…
Father details son’s struggles, accomplishments in book
Sean C. Morgan In a lot of people’s eyes, Parker Seiber started life with a raw deal –…
15 years of work culminates with carousel opening
After years of preparation, the Albany Historic Carousel and Museum opened Tuesday, Aug. 15, at the corner of…
Highway 228 wreck
Medical personnel attend to injured motorcyclist Ronald Castleman of Sweet Home near milepost 17 on Highway 228 Monday…
Officials looking into death of 10-month-old
Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley reports that his detectives, in conjunction with investigators from the Sweet Home Police…
School district progressing with auditorium seismic upgrades
Sean C. Morgan Seismic upgrades in the Sweet Home High School auditorium are well under way and on…
SH officials finalize worse-case-scenario plans as eclipse nears
The City of Sweet Home is finalizing plans to address the potential worst-case scenarios that could materialize on…
Fire at old mill
Firefighters battle a blaze on the old Weyerhaeuser mill property, now owned by Linn County at the north…
More on the total eclipse
Here are more eclipse-related facts from Mid-Valley Astronomers: n People who travel great distances to see total eclipses…
Council may fund chamber – with terms
Sean C. Morgan Following a discussion last week about whether to pay the Chamber of Commerce $15,000 to…
Police call volume exceeds last year’s pace, but not record-setting
Sean C. Morgan Halfway through the year, Sweet Home Police Department is running just a little ahead of…
Judge denies request for release of suspect in 13th Avenue fatal shooting
Linn County Circuit Court Judge DeAnn Novotny denied a request to set a security release for Trevor Paul…
Hospital shows off start of new Emergency Dept.
Scott Swanson Local residents got an up-close look at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital’s glistening new Emergency Department –…