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Parade Award Winners
Following are award winners in the 2013 Sweet Home Christmas Parade, as reported by the Parade Committee: The…
City charter panel applicants sought
The City of Sweet Home is seeking applications from those interested serving on a charter review committee. The…
‘Homeless’ in Sweet Home mixed bunch with variety of needs
Sean C. Morgan They aren’t particularly numerous, but they’re noticeable – hanging out on benches, in front of…
Solutions Team’s role in community forest coming to end
Scott Swanson The South Santiam Community Forest Corridor Oregon Solutions Team is ready to call it quits –…
Local police plan DUII crackdown
The Sweet Home and Lebanon police departments will work together this holiday season in an effort to crack…
Car explosion investigation continuing
The Sweet Home Police Department is continuing to investigate an explosion that damaged a 1994 Ford Mustang last…
Retired SH music teacher named to elite composers forum
Sean C. Morgan Ken Collins of Sweet Home, retired District 55 music teacher, is one of 25 elite…
SH teen dies in Hwy. 228 crash
A 16-year-old Sweet Home girl was killed Sunday afternoon in a two-vehicle fatal crash on Highway 228, just…
Local woman honored for work with hospice patients
Natalie Grove For two decades Renita Sanchez of Sweet Home has criss-crossed Linn County, serving patients and their…
Sharing Christmas
Sweet Home Junior High School Achievement Award students gather with teacher Sarah Lynn around an engine in the…
Livability program advisors here to tour, visit with Sweet Home residents
Scott Swanson Sweet Home’s Livability Initiative kicks off for real this week with a visit from three representatives…
Favorite lights?
Despite the early-December deep freeze, many Sweet Home residents managed to get their holiday lights up before the…
School Board continues four-day week
Sean C. Morgan The District 55 School Board voted Monday night to continue using the four-day school week…
Christmas continues
Living Nativity, parade, carriage rides on schedule for this weekend Sweet Home’s Christmas events will be back in…
Vietnam vets help local buddy with home improvement
Sean C. Morgan Vietnam veterans are helping Ric and Sue Olson repair and remodel parts of their Osage…
SH car explosion under investigation
Sweet Home police are investigating an explosion inside a vehicle parked in the 1600 block of Main Street…
Bicyclist doesn’t let weather brake his cross-country trek
Sean C. Morgan It was the middle of a record-setting cold spell as Leo Dever and his dog…
Council OKs sidewalk contract, hikes garbage rates
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 10, agreed to contract with Exca-Drain Construction…
Effort to thaw pipes causes house fire
Fire caused minor damage to a Highway 228 home Wednesday. Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District firefighters responded…
Cash for kids
Gina Riley of the Sweet Home Police Department, center, receives a check from Sweet Home Kiwanis Club President…
Crawfordsville driver injured in crash
A Crawfordsville man was injured Monday evening, Dec. 2, when his vehicle collided head on with another car…
Oregon Jamboree adds five artists to line-up
Justin Moore, the Eli Young Band, Joe Diffie, Cassadee Pope and Blackjack Billy have been added to the…
Planners approve 19th Ave. variances
The Sweet Home Planning Commission on Dec. 2 approved two variances for Northern Investments to allow the siting…
Pipes freeze, but chill has few other ill effects in SH
The Rio Theater’s new digital projector was wrapped in plastic to keep out humidity as owner Mike Kinney…
Police come up short on donors for teenage Sharing Tree
Sean C. Morgan Name tags are still available on the Sweet Home Police Department Sharing Tree, and while…