Opinion

I’d always had the annual Civilian Conservation Corps picnic on my list of things to do here at…

Editor: Thank you, Sweet Home, “times 12.” This summer 12 kids from our town had an unforgettable week…

Editor: With all due respect to Linn County and SHEDG, their plan to turn the old Morse gravel…

The news that Linn County is taking steps to do something with the property it foreclosed from Western…

Editor: I read an article in the Portland Oregonian dated Aug. 17. With cancer, AIDS and hepatitis, there…

I don’t live in Cascadia but I think I can relate to the situation the folks up there…

Editor: It has recently been brought to my attention that our Josai program of 30 years may be…

Editor: Your article about the Josai program (Aug. 1) was dead on. It is time for Sweet Home…

Editor: The Albany Democrat-Herald recently had a story about an aggressive invader: Scotch broom. And it reminded me…

Editor: Coaching is an area of life where you get true enjoyment through seeing someone else’s success. It’s…

Editor: Our family lived in Sweet Home for 34 years and enjoyed the small town. I now live…

Editor: Responding to Diane Daiute’s letter of Aug. 1: You really know how to stir the pot don’t…

In response to Ms. Daiute’s letter about how bad guns are, and how we should not have the…

Editor: Re: “Guns ‘R’ Us and we pay the price” (Aug. 1), statistics are a great way to…

Editor: As a lifelong gun owner who has never used a firearm inappropri- ately, like 99.9 percent of…

The Oregon Jamboree has in- ished celebrating its 20th year with huge crowds, top country music per- formers,…

Did you know that Swiss gov- ernment issues every household a gun and trains every adult that they…

Editor: I know little or nothing of geology, petroleum or chemistry. That being said, I believe that while…

Editor: We would like to thank the community for support given to the annual East Linn Museum yard…

Editor: Since 2001, 4,977 (and still counting) Americans have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, while back…

Scott Swanson The news we’re hearing about the Josai exhange program (page 1) is not good. If you’ve…

Scott Swanson I’m recently back from the annual convention of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, which was really…

Editor: In answer to Diane Daiute’s letter to the editor (July 11) in which she complained about Mitt…

Editor: This is to the sponsors and fellow volunteers of the Sweet Home Sweet Ride Charity Car Show…

Editor: I have noticed that both family and public kitchen help all seem to presume that if strawberries…