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Missing mushroom picker found north of Sweet Home
A Lebanon man who got lost while hunting mushrooms in the Whitcomb Creek area was found Thursday afternoon,…
Planning Commission approves land use requests
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Planning Commission approved two conditional use permits and one variance during following…
Lebanon radio station owner beefs up signals to Sweet Home
Audrey Gomez Charlie Eads has seen, and made, a lot of changes at KGAL since he bought the…
Sweet Home drug search warrant results in three arrests
Three Sweet Home residents were arrested early Thursday morning, Dec. 3, after a narcotics-related search warrant served at…
Wet weather has local lake levels on rise
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home’s local reservoirs are handling a lot more rain in recent weeks after Green…
SHFAD board to consider fees for non-hospital medical calls
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District Board of Directors will hold two public meetings…
Death of longtime city maintenance supervisor Pat Wood leaves a void
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home city staff was one man down last Friday night for the annual Christmas…
Life Skills craft fair
Life Skills class members show off some of their wares Wednesday, Dec. 2, during their annual craft fair,…
Christmas card displays out for viewing throughout SH
Lighted Christmas cards, painted by local artists, have been set up for viewing around Sweet Home. Card display…
Municipal Court October 15
Oct. 15 – Kevin Joseph Bachand, no contest, third-degree theft, sentenced to 24 months bench probation, four days…
SHEM Thanksgiving
SHEM volunteer Ralph Meyers, right, hands a turkey to Shawna Thibert during a Thanksgiving dinner giveaway Wednesday, Nov.…
Christmas season kicks off Friday with lighted parade
This weekend kicks off the Christmas holiday season in Sweet Home with a full program of activities, starting…
Three arrested after drug search warrants on Wednesday
Three Sweet Home residents were arrested early Thursday morning, Dec. 3, after a narcotics-related search warrant served at…
Growing church breaks ground for expansion
Sean C. Morgan While Harvest Christian Center has broken ground on the first part of its planned expansion,…
Rio Theatre taking sound system to new level in time for holidays
Sean C. Morgan Just in time for the Dec. 17 premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” the…
SH to revisit urban renewal
Scott Swanson City Council members agreed to look into the possibility of urban renewal as a means of…
SH man arrested after vehicle stop, search
Sweet Home police arrested a Sweet Home man during the morning of Nov. 16 after a traffic stop…
Deadlines drawing near for donations to Sharing Trees
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Police Department and the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District are collecting…
Teen charged in connection with first of two mill fires
Sweet Home Police have charged a 15-year-old boy in connection with the first of two fires in the…
Heading south? Be cautious
Freezing rain is now falling in southern Douglas County. Multiple crashes reported near milepost 108 (Myrtle Creek), according…
Watershed Council teens go to work on quarry land
Sean C. Morgan The effort to turn the former Knife River/Morse Bros. quarry property, which may one day…
Ex-SH man aiming to see VA in court over ‘wrongful’ firing
Audrey Gomez Joshua Peargin knew his job with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs might be on the…
Jamboree signs Toby Keith as second headliner
The Oregon Jamboree announced last week that it has signed a second headliner, Toby Keith, and three other…
Chamber members elect one board member, hear progress report
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce members re-elected Bill Baitinger to its board of directors Thursday…
Sweet Home Mennonite Church celebrates 75 years
Mary Lou Merrill In 1938, five of six Emmert brothers and their families, all Mennonites, came to Sweet…