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Hands-on learning
Sean C. Morgan New portable sawmill allows SHHS students to learn across curriculum Construction trades teacher and Forestry…
Christmas weekend expands into multi-week calendar of events
Scott Swanson Sweet Home’s holiday season will kick off this weekend with Christmas lighting events, a downtown shopping…
Exterior improvement program picking up
Sean C. Morgan Ending the third year of the Commercial Exterior Improvement Program, the Sweet Home Active Revitalization…
Ex-cop gets jail, probation
Former Sweet Home Police Office Randy Gill was sentenced to two days in jail and 18 months of…
Maples win city Autumn Tree of the Year designation
11/21/12 Sweet Home’s Autumn Tree of the Year, chosen by the community, includes two winners. They include the…
Solutions Team assigned to work on community forest
Scott Swanson Local tourism has gotten what is likely to be a major boost with the designation of…
The Bard comes to SHHS
Actors from Ashland open students’ eyes to Shakespeare’s genius By Sean C. Morgan Of The New Era The…
Students jump into free ACT program
Sean C. Morgan Thirty-two Sweet Home High School students are holding off on graduation and taking advantage of…
Open house gives public a look at Foster fish facility in the works
Sean C. Morgan A contractor is moving dirt at Wiley Creek Park below Foster Dam in preparation for…
Old city water plant demolition completed
Sean C. Morgan Demolition of Sweet Home’s old Water Treatment Plant was completed on Friday, Nov. 16. The…
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…