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Keeping it clean starts at home
Editor: I recently took a walk around town to get some exercise, but what I got was a…
September 21, 2011
Bus route doesn’t make much sense
Let’s let the bus drivers design their routes. Why not have a passenger van parked at Foster School…
September 14, 2011
Businesses truly deserve support
I support local business but then I shop at Wal-Mart, after that I will head over to Albany…
September 14, 2011
Post-9/11 enigma
Osama bin Laden said in a 2004 videotape, “We, alongside the mujahideen, bled Russia for 10 years, until…
September 14, 2011
Pressing on 10 years after 9-11
This Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the Muslim terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Center in…
September 7, 2011
Flowers spiff up SH’s downtown
Editor: Thank you, thank you, thank you to the people who plant, feed and nurture those beautiful flowers…
August 31, 2011
Reconsider bus route changes
Editor: School Board Chairman Jason Redick, please reconsider your plan to make children on High Deck and Whiskey…
August 24, 2011
Responsiblity equals terrorism?
Editor: I must be one of those extreme right-wing tea party terrorists who just ruined the credit rating…
August 10, 2011
Volunteers are Jamboree’s VIPs
Editor: During the Jamboree event I was fortunate to rub shoulders with many VIPs. The VIPs I am…
August 10, 2011
Blame ‘W’ for debt problems
Bruce Bartlett, former deputy budget director for Pres. George H.W. Bush and aide to President Reagan, says the…
August 10, 2011
Too young to really be the big Five-Oh
Scott Swanson It wasn’t until I went to visit my parents in Grants Pass last weekend that the…
August 10, 2011
Thanks to church for helping moms
Editor: The staff at Sweet Home Early Head Start would like to extend their gratitude to the Sweet…
August 10, 2011
Liquor permit votes just smell
Editor: Regarding the Frontier Bar: “A long history of violations,” “a history of serious and consistent problems,” and…
August 10, 2011
Article triggers old memories
Editor: I recently received your issue of The New Era with the article on the 1939 class reunion.…
August 10, 2011
Jamboree a great draw for regular folks
My favorite memory of the six Oregon Jamborees I’ve experienced didn’t even happen at the Jamboree, really. It…
August 3, 2011
Let visitors know you care
It’s time. When the Sign Team volunteers post the distinctive yellow campground signs, the sound and stage contractors’…
July 27, 2011
Rural newspapers still fill hometown information gaps
Geoff McGhee In the United States, some 7,500 community newspapers – papers with under 30,000 in circulation –…
July 27, 2011
Title IX complaint waste of our time
We can’t imagine that the Title IX complaint against about 100 Oregon high schools, including Sweet Home, Lebanon…
July 20, 2011
Don’t pollute the streams
Editor: Summer is here. Kids are playing in the creeks and rivers. That’s why I would like to…
July 20, 2011
Thanks for Manna support
The people of Sweet Home United Methodist Church want to thank our community for supporting the Manna Free…
July 20, 2011
Chickens should require permits
Although the city is not obligated to enforce CCR’s I don’t believe the city should encourage activities in…
July 20, 2011
Expect leaders to be responsible
Responsibility and good judgment should be primary requirements of civic leaders. A good class in logic and one…
July 20, 2011
Legacy we are leaving our youth may be a curse
Mark W. Hendrickson We older Americans have saddled our youth with a mind-boggling public debt—over $20 trillion already…
July 20, 2011
Local business restores faith
I would like to praise a local company that did me a great service today. The company is…
July 20, 2011
Festival great testament to volunteer efforts
As a newspaper journalist, even in a small community like Sweet Home, it’s always a tricky business trying…
July 13, 2011