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Beaver in gear only
Hawthorne Principal Terry Augustadt does his time as an Oregon State University Beavers clown to pay off one…
93-year-old veteran awarded lifetime VFW member status
Sean C. Morgan The Jefferson post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 4065, inducted a 93-year-old World…
Oak Heights Gives Back
Oak Heights School students show off some of the 450 cans and many boxed foods they collected during…
Hollywood mostly stories when it comes to guns
Jeff Hutchins In my last column I mentioned some of the crazy statements I’ve heard from other gun…
County, state parks users may see big changes starting in 2014
Scott Swanson After years of discussing the possibility of Linn County taking over the operation of Cascadia State…
LBCC, OSU announce fall Honor Rolls
The following Sweet Home students at Linn-Benton Community College earned a grade point average of 3.5 or higher…
Class size cuts top priority for School Board
Members of the District 55 School Board have chosen to pursue class size reductions, along with maintaining professional…
2013 big news: collaboration efforts, typical assortment of triumphs, tragedies
Editor’s note: Following is a review of what we considered the top stories from we reported in The…
Remembering Caroline
Scores turn out at vigil to mourn loss of popular teen Caroline Huss was remembered as a “sweetheart,”…
Sweet Home men arrested on theft charges
Two Sweet Home men were arrested this week on suspicion of multiple theft and criminal mischief charges, Linn…
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…