Dec. 27, 1973
Petroleum shortages have not yet affected the Sweet Home School District. About two weeks ago the District had only enough heating oil to last the day at the high school, but they were able to procure about 35,000 gallons of fuel oil to get them through the school year.
The Post Office reported a considerable increase in volume of mail delivery compared to last year. Between Nov. 20 and Dec. 14, incoming mail increased 6.5% (from 291,000 pieces to 310,000). Parcels delivered rose 20.7% (from 3,846 pieces to 4,642). Stamp sales made a 10% increase.
Sweet Home bowlers won two more first places in the second annual Mid-Valley Junior Bowling Championship Tournament at Terry Lanes. Patti Macoubrie and Candy Stark teamed to win first place in the senior girls competition with a score of 1,284. David Van Epps and Lori White (who always plays in a boys league) won the senior boys competition with a combined score of 1,317.
Dec. 30, 1998
A barrage of rapidly changing weather conditions from bitter cold ice to snow to abundant warm rain and a wind storm hammered Sweet Home, decorating the roadways with fallen limbs and trees. Power lines went out in some places. A falling tree hit a home and pinned a truck on Ninth Avenue, while a 150-foot tree fell across the road at 2455 Long St.
Elementary choir teacher Jan Barthel first got David Dominy hooked on participating in the annual Singing Christmas Tree when he was in the fourth grade 10 years ago. His brother, Cliff, also participated, followed by their mother, Sue, a year later, and then their father, George.
Under a proposed mutual agreement, the Department of Environmental Quality may require the City of Sweet Home to expand its wastewater treatment facility to mitigate bypasses of raw sewage. Designed to handle seven million gallons a day, storm events can flood in a total of 12 million gallons. Under the agreement, daily flows in excess of seven million gallons may be overflowed to Ames Creek.
Andy Propst, a missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, shared his story about being kidnapped while in Russia. Earlier this year, Propst and his partner were invited to a home in Russia to share their faith. At the home, he was clubbed in the head and awoke to find himself handcuffed and taken to a cabin with his partner. One of the kidnappers, Sergei Imselff, was a businessman with a $300,000 debt to the mafia. They were released five days later.