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LBCC specialty foods workshop
A one-day workshop on “Selling into the Specialty Food Market” will be offered through the Small Business Development…
Show features art by LBCC alums
An art show entitled “Mutual Appreciation,” featuring paintings, drawings and printmaking works from eight Oregon State University students…
Cops, city reach tentative agreement on contract
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Police Department Emergency Services Union last week reached a tentative agreement with…
‘Challenging’ weather conditions may benefit grape crop
Scott Swanson The clear, sunny skies last week prompted a rush to get grapes harvested in Willamette Valley…
Chamber meeting focuses on what local businesses need
Scott Swanson The Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors made good on its declaration that it…
Cops press for arbitration in contract fight
Sean C. Morgan After meeting Oct. 19 to discuss declining revenues, The Sweet Home Police Department Emergency Services…
Divers locate, retrieve woman’s body from Green Peter reservoir
Linn County and Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance divers pulled the body of a 55-year-old Philomath woman, an…
Missing Lebanon hunter found after spending night in woods
Members of the Linn County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team found a missing hunter in the Sweet…
Budget fix is ‘Band-aid on an artery cut’
Sean C. Morgan The city of Sweet Home will transfer $572,000 to the Sweet Home Police Department and…
Genealogy Society puts final touches on history book
Sean C. Morgan The Sweet Home Genealogical Society’s new photo history book about Sweet Home is in its…
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…