From Our Files: Jan. 14, 2026

Jim James and Vince Lowen present a bicentennial memorial flag to the City of Sweet Home by the Jaycees in 1976. When the Jaycees drove the Oregon Log to Florida last summer, they were given three of these flags with 13 superimposed golden stars to be given away. Only 200 of these were made.

Jan. 18, 1951

 

The impact of wind and rain buffeting the Pacific Northwest was felt by residents here. A colt owned by E.C. “Bud” Banke on Airport Heights was killed early in the morning when struck by one of 35 large Douglas firs uprooted by a south wind of near-hurricane force. On other properties, a chicken coop door was blown off its hinges and bewildered hens released to blow about the yard, and most…

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