Opinion

Editor: I would like to address some issues of April 22 (see page 1) in a positive way.…

Editor: Just when you think things could not get any more perverted, you find out Canada is supplying…

Editor: I would like to applaud City Councilors Trask, Mahler and Mayor Gourley for standing up and trying…

Editor: Many thanks to the Sweet Home Community Foundation Committee for choosing the Sweet Home School District Digital…

Editor: I’m disappointed that Wildflower (Buttitta, April 23) finds our Community Center restrooms unsatisfactory. I think she hasn’t…

Editor: For several months I have brought to the attention of the manager of our community center the…

Editor: Long-time members of the Senior Center, the quilting group disagree with the letter above. The center is…

Editor: Recently the Bi-Mart training staff and 70 new employees were involved in a three-day training session for…

Editor: Your editorial concerning the Sweet Home Economic Development Group/Oregon Jamboree raised a lot of good points and…

Editor: In the May 20 primary election voters will choose the candidates for the November 2014 ballot for…

Editor: The water rates in Sweet Home are some of the highest in the state of Oregon. Now…

The Sweet Home Economic Development Group has done much for Sweet Home, more than it sometimes gets credit…

Watching our water and sewer rates soar yet again is, to put it mildly, disagreeable. Unfortunately, it’s the…

Editor: A big thank you for another successful Sportsman’s Holiday Court Workshop. Sportsman’s Holiday Court Committee members have…

After reading in The New Era paper March 19, 2014, “City Facing 1 Million Dollars Shortage” article and…

Editor: As we prepare to celebrate Doctors Day on March 30, I want to acknowledge and thank the…

For the past two weeks we’ve been reporting rather heavily on the culmination of the Governor’s Regional Solutions…

Editor: To say I was surprised about receiving the Citizen of the Year Award is an understatement. I…

Bettencourt Dairies, an Idaho dairy farm, was caught on camera viciously beating cows with canes, jumping on their…

Editor: I would like to share my observations of how well the city Public Works Department has been…

We hear a lot about volunteerism here in Sweet Home, and I think it’s easy to take it…

This editorial concerns a story that hasn’t even run in our paper. It’s about a meeting held a…

Editor: I believe our liberal state leaders are learning from our Sweet Home liberal leaders how to lose,…

Editor: Fir Lawn Lutheran Church is making a difference in the lives of young people in Sweet Home,…

Editor: Native American mascots. We stole their land and slaughtered their populations. Non-Native Americans have no business using…