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Thanks for your help with flowers
Editor: The Sweet Home Beautification Committee receives many, many, compliments on the looks of the downtown area with…
July 19, 2006
Giving follow-up to a news story its due
One of the problems with news today is that follow-up sometimes gets short shrift. Often a story will…
July 12, 2006
Parade was great ride
Editor: Wow, what a neat perk! As a member of the City Council, I was afforded the privilege…
July 12, 2006
Where were the citizens?
Editor: I have to ask: Where were the citizens of Sweet Home when the City Council held a…
July 5, 2006
Pedestrians need attention too
Editor: Crosswalk violations, 68 cited, but the job is only half done. Maybe the drivers would be more…
July 5, 2006
Support lacking for school clinic
Editor: In the straw vote of the approximately 75 people attending Sweet Home School Based Clinic (SBC), proposal…
July 5, 2006
City must count water cost
Editor: This is just a note for the City Council members who are considering the privatization of the…
July 5, 2006
Jump at health clinic chance
Editor: I would like to urge the residents of Sweet Home to jump at the chance to have…
July 5, 2006
Why are clinic opponents afraid?
Editor: Sean Morgan did a great job relaying the details of the public meeting for the school-based health…
July 5, 2006
Visit the (local) rodeo
If you’ve paid any attention to the windows in downtown Sweet Home recently, you’ve probably seen signs for…
July 5, 2006
Chamber mixer evidence of new chapter for organization
It’s encouraging to see the progress made by the Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce in the last year,…
June 29, 2006
Water problems are in ground
Editor: The Sweet Home City Council is about to make a decision about who will control Sweet Home’s…
June 29, 2006
Water management an issue of control
Editor: As to having a private company manage our water and wastewater facilities, I’m not so sure this…
June 29, 2006
School clinic timing stinks
Editor: While six of nine hard-working Sweet Home School Board members were absent from last Thursday’s school-based health…
June 29, 2006
Charter school is worthwhile
Editor: I’ve pondered long and hard, thinking about what I should say in this letter to the people.…
June 29, 2006
School Board not equitable
Editor: The school board spends hours trying to make good decisions for our community. Now the school board…
June 29, 2006
Thanks for Fishing Derby
Editor: We would like to compliment and sincerely thank all that participated in hosting the fishing derby at…
June 21, 2006
Thanks to SHJH for can drive help
Editor: Sweet Home Emergency Ministries would like to thank Sweet Home Junior High students and their adult supervisors…
June 21, 2006
District responds to questions
Editor: There have been two questions raised regarding the Sweet Home School District’s policies surrounding consistency in enforcing…
June 21, 2006
A sign of growing old: You learn how to listen
It was when I was wrestling a 14-year-old kid a few months ago that I started really feeling…
June 21, 2006
Difference of priorities?
Editor: The District 55 School Board meeting on June 12 was worth the price of admission. That price…
June 21, 2006
Give charter school fair opportunity
Editor: I’m writing concerning the charter school. I do not have any children or grandchildren in the School…
June 21, 2006
How can senators be so deaf?
How can senators be so deaf? Editor: In regards to our deaf senators, how can they not listen…
June 15, 2006
Flower power, funding for cops
Flower power, funding for cops Two things have happened or been written that I wish to comment on.…
June 15, 2006
Questions about proposed clinic
Editor: I have a few questions concerning the new health clinic being proposed at the Sweet Home High…
June 15, 2006