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Gratitude a wonderful thing in a world of gifts
Rich Lowry Eventually, social science works its way around to confirming eternal verities. So it is with gratitude.…
Bus drivers: shorthanded, but it’s not first time
Sean C. Morgan School District 55 bus drivers say that the cut in hours and pay from the…
Saluting veterans
Sean C. Morgan More than 1 million people have been killed in war serving the United States of…
Man arrested following discovery of unconscious girl, 2
A 2-year-old girl was transported to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital with bleeding to the brain following an injury allegedly…
Angry hunter seeks clues to who stole deer, tag
Scott Swanson Mark Lindquist of Sweet Home has been hunting for four-plus decades, but what happened to him…
Newcomers elected to City Council has two new members
Sean C. Morgan Bruce Hobbs and Dave Trask will join the City Council and Jim Gourley and Marybeth…
Trails group aims to put walking on public’s mind
Sweet Home Trails Committee members are looking to get Sweet Home off the couch and onto the pavement.…
Election signals America’s fundamental transformation
Paul Kengor Timing is everything in politics. For four years, I angered conservatives by insisting Barack Obama would…
100 years into life, she takes ‘one day at a time’
Sean C. Morgan Bertha Malone celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday, Nov. 10. Malone has lived in the Holley…
Store owner closes up shop – temporarily, he says – to go help with hurricane aftermath
Sean C. Morgan GTS G6 Surplus and Survival closed its doors for business at 1119 Main St. Saturday,…
Board OKs raises for administrators; Classified criticizes cuts
Sean C. Morgan The District 55 School Board approved raises for administrators Monday night by adding five new…
Dan Desler sentenced
Sean C. Morgan Dan Desler, who at one time had big plans to create commercial and housing developments…
Corps plans Nov. 14 information meeting on Foster fish facility
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host a public information session about the upgrade of the Foster…
Lost hunters turn up after spending night in forest
Two hunters from Albany were found Saturday after spending an unplanned night in the woods near Sweet Home,…
County moving fast on problem property foreclosure
Sean C. Morgan Linn County is moving forward with an accelerated foreclosure on a property located at the…
Local veterans feel ‘humbled’ by Honor Flight accolades
Sean C. Morgan In all his years, Hal Hennick has never felt so honored as he did visiting…
SHPD’s recruitment of veterans working out well
Sean C. Morgan Geoffrey Hamlin is the latest of three military veterans recently hired as police officers at…
Photo brings back war memories for SH man
Scott Swanson Darrell Goddard was looking at a Time-Life book on World War II some years ago when…
Patrol vehicles ordered to replace units lost in pursuit
The Sweet Home Police Department has ordered two new vehicles to replace those destroyed in a pursuit in…
Sweet Home man dies 10 days after auto wreck near Jefferson
A Sweet Home man died last week after suffering injuries in a car crash on Oct. 20 near…
Jamboree signs Luke Bryan
Sean C. Morgan The Oregon Jamboree Thursday named Luke Bryan as its second headliner for 2013, and announced…
Community Foundation receives $202,000 donation
A Lebanon man donated $202,000 to the Sweet Home Community Foundation in honor of his wife, a Sweet…
Wild chase in SH
Fleeing suspect, who rammed a variety of vehicles during pursuit, arraigned on numerous charges By Sean C. Morgan…
League’s plan would boost city revenue
Sean C. Morgan The League of Oregon Cities is proposing two measures that will improve funding for city…
Three patrol vehicles possibly totaled in pursuit
Sean C. Morgan The police chase in Sweet Home last week left the city Police Department with five…