Aug. 10, 1950
City Council approved the purchase of a new one-ton flatbed truck to replace the water department’s 1941 truck. Cost of the vehicle after trade-in allowance was $1,478.75.
The Chamber of Commerce decided to temporarily abandon the plan to hire a full-time chamber manager. Also, during the regular August meeting, chamber members voted down a proposal to investigate and possibly mediate the labor-management dispute at Willamette National Lumber company here.
The first of three mobile units for Sweet Home’s two-way police-fire radio system was installed this week in the fire department’s old International truck. The second unit is to be installed in the police car while the third will be installed in the fire department’s new rural-call truck.
Aug. 7, 1975
A fire started in the bottom of canyon in “very rough terrain” about four miles northeast of Cascadia in the Queens Creek area near Canyon Creek ended up burning about 110 acres of timber and slash this week. It is believed the fire was human caused. It is the 13th – and largest – fire in the area of the Linn patrol since July 1.
Three young Salem sisters – ages 12 to 22 – who were apparently lost without food made their way out of the woods near the headwaters of Green Peter Reservoir this week. They were apparently camping, walked away from their car and became lost for three days.
Aug. 9, 2000
Sweet Home police arrested former resident Debra Ann Robinson, former owner of Smoker’s Choice on Hwy. 20, in Salem this week as a result of a nationwide investigation into the illegal trafficking of pseudoephedrine – a precursor chemical used to manufacture methamphetamine. More than 140 people from multiple states were arrested.
The eighth annual Oregon Jamboree was dubbed one of the best to date. Headliners included Charlie Daniels, Dwight Yoakam, Wynonna, Kenny Chesny, Chely Wright, Terri Clark and Sawyer Brown. German photographers Hans and Elvira Pfaff – authors of coffee books about Canada – started documenting the Pacific Northwest by capturing images from this Jamboree.