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City removes street trees around 13th, Long for replacement
The City of Sweet Home removed nine street trees along 13th Avenue, near Steelhead Fitness, Santiam Feed and…
Hunters’ diaries could reveal dark secrets
Just what goes on up in the woods during hunting season? To help answer that question, all hunters…
SHFAD celebrates 75 years
Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District staffers and volunteers hosted the public Saturday, Sept. 12, in an open…
Sheep Creek Bridge project under way
Scott Swanson Sheep Creek Bridge on Highway 20 is sliding, and the fix will be costly in time,…
Former local heroin dealer to serve 6 years in federal prison
Rockie Eugene Morse, 42, who once bragged of being Sweet Home’s “biggest heroin dealer” and whose activities created…
Council to get law banning public drinking
Sean C. Morgan The Public Works Committee is preparing an ordinance proposal to prohibit public drinking in Sweet…
Numbers up at 3 schools, but overall student population down
Scott Swanson Enrollments are up at three Sweet Home elementary schools while down at two others, the junior…
Local authors invited to strut stuff at library’s Open Mic Night
Sean C. Morgan Local writers are invited to the Sweet Home Public Library on Thursday, Sept. 24, to…
Crosswalk enforcement exercise results in seven citations, ‘educated’ drivers
Staff Passersby in downtown Sweet Home may have noticed a few police cars near the the corner of…
SH B&G Club offers fall programs, plans fund-raisers
After overcoming funding obstacles earlier this year, the Sweet Home branch of the Boys & Girls Club is…
Contention reigns on Christmas parade plans
Audrey Gomez Two parade permit applications were filed with the Sweet Home Police Department within half an hour…
Council votes to postpone rate hikes discussion till 2016
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council last week formally voted to postpone discussion of water and…
Fire severely damages home on 14th Avenue Monday
Fire severely damaged a home on 14th Avenue Monday afternoon. Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District personnel responded…
Camper dies after fall from cliff
Linn County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating the death of a man who fell from a cliff near Gordon…
Junior high science teacher, daughter publish novels
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Junior High science teacher Mark Holden wrote a book more than 20 years…
SH girls finding it hard to gel as team in losses
The Huskies lost 5-1 to Pleasant Hill on the road in girls soccer on Sept. 8. The Billies…
John Wittwer celebrates 40 years as a Sweet Home attorney
Sean C. Morgan Attorney John Wittwer dryly discounts 40 years of business in Sweet Home as something anyone…
Boys soccer off to best start ever – 3-0 – with tough league approaching
After downing Valley Catholic 2-1 and Pleasant Hill 8-1 last week, Sweet Home is on a 3-0 winning…
Best in the West triathlon event back, bigger than ever
Scott Swanson Sweet Home’s Kambria Schumacher has been steadily rising through the ranks of Northwest triathletes over the…
Numbers not in yet, but first week of school was ‘good’
Sean C. Morgan School officials reported a smooth opening school week, with District 55 enrollments staying about the…
Committee: Delay rate increases
Sean C. Morgan The city Public Works Committee is recommending to the City Council that it hold off…
2015’s been hot year for campgrounds
Scott Swanson The record-breaking temperatures this year may have caused problems in other areas, but for the Linn…
City ordinance revision retains fence permit requirement but without fee
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council on Sept. 1 held the first reading of updates to…
New Holley principal says education, though not first career choice, is his calling
Sean C. Morgan Holley Elementary School’s new principal, Todd Barrett, is stressing empowerment and motivation as he takes…