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Mural committee needs help on cops photo
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Active Revitalization Effort Murals Committee is seeking at least one photo of…
Fire season ends mildly
Sean C. Morgan A short, mild fire season officially ended a little earlier than usual after 10 days…
Floating device monitors lake water quality
Sean C. Morgan Since last summer, boaters and visitors to Foster Lake might have noticed an extra floating…
Volleyball team hosts Cascade in playoff game Saturday
Sweet Home will take on Cascade at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, in Husky Gym for the chance…
Girls to face Philomath Thursday in soccer play-in
Sweet Home’s girls will face Philomath at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in a OSAA 4A play-in game.…
Biomass concept heats up at SH meeting
Sean C. Morgan Heat for downtown Sweet Home buildings could come from burning woody biomass, the byproduct of…
Husky spikers head for playoffs
The Sweet Home volleyball team finished its league season with three straight wins, beating Cottage Grove and Elmira…
Tax figures ‘shock’ chief, destroy cops budget
Sean C. Morgan Stunned Sweet Home city officials are scrambling to figure out what to do after learning…
City Council, planners updating conditional use rules
Sean C. Morgan The City Council held a public hearing on Oct. 11 to consider revisions to the…
Compression saves taxpayers money, puts squeeze on districts
After calculating taxes based on assessed values, the total tax is compared to real market value. Under state…
City variance ordinance to get bit of a makeover
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Planning Commission this month began reviewing and revising its variance ordinance, the…
After 35 years at commission helm, Meyers calls it quits
Sean C. Morgan Sweet Home Planning Commission Chairman Dick Meyers has made it his mission to help people…
Cutting through the mumbo-jumbo: values down
Though assessed property values have increased in Linn County, they fell in Sweet Home over the last year,…
Pacific Power offers reward in wire thefts
Pacific Power, working with mid Willamette Valley area law enforcement officials, is offering a $3,000 reward for information…
Happy Homecoming
Sweet Home High School celebrated Homecoming last week with all the usual activities, plus a few twists, such…
Kyle Winslow, Kristen Tolle named Jr. First Citizens
Sean C. Morgan Seniors Kyle Winslow and Kristen Tollen have been selected as Sweet Home High School’s Junior…
Charter School ‘outstanding,’ with others close behind
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Charter School received a rating of “outstanding” in school report cards released…
Cemetery running out of cash; puts levy on ballot
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Cemetery District is proposing a five-year 8-cent local option levy in the…
‘Leave us alone’
Sean C. Morgan Cascadia-area residents sound off on Post Office closure question Closing the local Post Office will…
Jeep, slain man inside, found near Yellowbottom
A black 2010 Jeep Patriot associated with homicide investigations in Oregon and Everett, Wash., was recovered Saturday, Oct.…
Sunshine Industries purchases Clark Mill Road land
Scott Swanson Sunshine Industries has purchased land to which it plans to relocate from the site it has…
Calligraphy conference draws enthusiasts to SH
Sean C. Morgan They enjoy creating beautiful letters, the way scribes did before the invention of the printing…
Sweet Home lawyer serving in USAF JAG corps
Scott Swanson While in the ROTC at the University of Oregon in the early 1990s, Mike Adams got…
Board to mull 4-day week for schools
Sean C. Morgan A four-day school week in Sweet Home schools is a possibility for next school year.…
SHHS graduate Bissell earns Ph.D in optical engineering
Luke James Bissell, a 1997 graduate of Sweet Home High School, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Experimental…