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General Election 2014: City Council candidates state positions on key issues
Editor’s note: Seven candidates for four open Sweet Home City Council seats makes the Nov. 4 election one…
Scott McKee resigns from City Council
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home City Councilor Scott McKee Jr. resigned during the City Council’s regular meeting on…
County completes road repairs on Marks Ridge, North River
Sean C. Morgan The Linn County Road Department has completed two major projects in the Sweet Home area…
Proposal would allow RV owners up to 60 days
Sean C. Morgan Under the latest draft of an ordinance proposal to be submitted to the City Council,…
Fire season winding down but not over
Sean C. Morgan Fire season is almost over, but officials aren’t quite ready to pull the plug. The…
City, school district working to stop park, bridge vandals
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home High School and city officials are taking steps and working together this school…
Studying salmon habitat
Some 2,000 children from Linn and Benton counties are participating this year in Salmon Watch field trips. Sweet…
Elks Hee Hee Haw Haw Show packed house
The Elks Hee Hee Haw Haw show Saturday nigh, September 20, was well attended by Sweet Home residents.…
Veterans home opening sparks joy in Lebanon
Sean C. Morgan Jodi Allworth raised her hands high in the air, thumbs up, as she prepared to…
Bicyclist injured in collision with car
An elderly bicyclist was injured Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 17, in a collision with a vehicle near Hilltop Market…
Linn Shuttle introducing new bus service to transport local shoppers
Scott Swanson Linn Shuttle will launch a new bus service next Wednesday, Oct. 1, in response to increasing…
Web database to help prospective investors find SH property
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Active Revitalization Effort and the City of Sweet Home have completed development…
Robber gets 54 months
Jacob Thomas Salvador A third suspect in a June 14 home invasion robbery, Jacob Thomas Salvador, 21, was…
County program helps local businesses hire teens for summer
Sean C. Morgan The Linn County Board of Commissioners agreed recently to help pay the wages for a…
Board to review four-day school week, set goals
Sean C. Morgan The District 55 School Board has divided into several subcommittees to develop goals for 2014-15,…
The New Era Celebrates 85 Years of Service to Sweet Home: 1929-2014 Souvenir Section Article
The New Era was born on Sept. 27, 1929 with the publication of the first issue by Dr.…
Boys and Girls Club kicks off Blue Doors fund-raiser
Sean C. Morgan The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Greater Santiam is aiming to raise $150,000 during…
OSP investigating crash that resulted in SH woman’s death
Oregon State Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that killed a Sweet Home woman last week at the…
Marijuana dispensary opening goes ‘pretty good’
Sean C. Morgan Going Green, a medical marijuana dispensary, opened Aug. 30. That was later than Manager C.J.…
Three arrested in connection with break-ins
Sweet Home police have arrested three men in connection to a series of burglaries this month. Arrested were…
SH man ejected, injured in crash
A Sweet Home man was ejected from his vehicle and seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash on Crawfordsville…
Local cyclists seek state OK for scenic route
Scott Swanson Doug Robin and Donna Short have ridden the entire breadth of the United States and many…
Corps starts work on Green Peter Dam
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started work on one of Green Peter Dam’s two spillway gates Monday.…
Elderly bicyclist injured in collision with car
A bicyclist was injured Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 17, in a collision with a vehicle near Hilltop Market in…
Stop signs approved for airport-area intersections
Sean C. Morgan The City Council last week approved new stop signs at four different locations on cross…