Sean C. Morgan
Linn County has received a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct an environmental assessment of the former Willamette Industries-Weyerhaeuser mill property in Sweet Home.
The property includes 166 acres between 18th Avenue and Clark Mill Road north of the railroad track. The land, along with 241 acres of former Morse Bros.-Knife River land, was last owned by Western States Land Reliance Trust.
The county foreclosed the property for…