April 19, 1951
Sweet Home’s high school board authorized a call for bids for the community’s anticipated new swimming pool after nearly five years of dreams, plans and fundraising. Bids will give pool planners an idea of construction costs, what work can be done now and how much more money will need to be raised. The pool fund currently has $16,000, gathered largely through Frontier Days celebrations. The money falls short of needed funding, but is expected to be the start of a state-approved “place to swim” as the board aims to provide “a usable swimming pool stripped of all unessential items.”
Three boys, one 13 years old and two 16 years, were apprehended on Brush Creek and returned by state police to the Skipworth school at Springfield. They had stolen a Springfield car, abandoned it off Brush Creek Road, and attempted to steal a Crawfordsville car but ran it into a pole.
April 15, 1976
Efforts to save and restore television channels 11 (8) and 5 (12) for residents in the general Holley and surrounding areas met with initial success, but there is more work to be done. East Linn Telecasters Inc. has been canvassing the areas in a fundraising effort to refurbish a long-standing translator stationed on Fern Ridge, defray power bills and put the service back on its financial feet. About $3,800 has been raised, but more families are asked to contribute the $20 donation to secure the service.
April 18, 2001
Funds from the Oregon Department of Transportation helped Linn Shuttle acquire four new 20-passenger buses in the amount of $250,000, which they had been working to obtain for more than two years. They will replace vehicles that were bought as interim transportation since the old ones had as many as 325,000 miles on them. They will be used to transport people to Albany and back, many of whom are college students, and the Sweet Home Dial-A-Bus program.
The City of Sweet Home commissioned a landscape architect to develop a planting plan for the downtown median strip, to include flowering perennials, ground cover, trees and decorative lamp posts. The Sweet Home Community Foundation committed matching funds up to $3,000 to complete the project.
Sweet Home High School’s equestrian team asked the school board for recognition as a school sport. It was accepted as a club sport last year, but the sport can’t receive recognition and participants can’t receive a letter.