Articles from the March 11, 2020 edition
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Community support helps owner retrieve missing shepherds
For someone who teaches Tai Chi and Qigong, Jim Adamik was surprised to find his patience running thin last week, in the days after his two dogs went missing. "I'm usually a calm, peaceful, get-along-...
Update: City shuts down some operations, chamber banquet postponed
The Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday morning that its awards banquet, scheduled for Saturday, March 14, will be postponed indefinitely, due to concerns about local instances of the coronavirus. Shortly before that, the City of Sweet... Full story
Sweet Home schools to close Monday after governor orders two-week statewide school closures
Sweet Home schools Supt. Tom Yahraes said that Sweet Home School District will be open Friday, but beginning Monday it will remain closed until April 1 following Gov. Kate Brown's order to close all K-12 schools beginning Monday. “Schools are... Full story
Two COVID-19 coronavirus cases reported at Lebanon's Oregon Veterans Home
Two presumptive cases of COVID-19 have been detected at the Oregon Veterans Home in Lebanon, the Oregon Health Authority announced Wednesday evening, March 11. The new cases involve two male veterans over the age of 80, according to the OHA. The... Full story
District to file Title IX complaint over forestry rule
The Sweet Home School Board voted Monday evening to file a Title IX complaint against the Oregon Department of Education in response to the ODE’s decision to combine girls and boys in the physical portion of forestry competitions. The ODE decision...
State decision prompts girls' exit from SH forestry
High school girls are either leaving the competitive forestry team or hanging in there a little longer to see whether the Oregon Department of Education will reverse its decision to combine boys and...
Country Lane residents, A&E day in (Supreme) Court Thursday
Country Lane residents expect to get a final resolution of their dispute with Albany and Eastern Railroad beginning Thursday, March 12, when the Oregon Supreme Court hears their case at the University of Oregon Law School in Eugene. Fourteen...
Gerrit Southard, Josh Bondeson top public safety honorees
Josh Bondesen was named the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District Firefighter of the Year, while the Police Department presented its Police Officer of the Year Award to Gerrit Southard, and Katie...
David Wiggins
March 6, 1971 - March 1, 2020 David Cecil Wiggins, 48, of Sweet Home, died March 1, 2020. He was born March 6, 1971 in Fall River Mills, Calif. to Jerry Harris and Linda Irene (Day) Wiggins. He served in the United States Navy from October 1988 to... Full story
Jamboree named Music Festival of the Year by industry peers
The Oregon Jamboree won the 2019 Music Festival of the Year award from the Oregon Festivals and Events Association. Jamboree staff members received the trophy at the annual Ovation! Awards and conference presented the weekend of Feb. 29 in Bend....
Junior High OBOB team performs well at reading regionals
The Sweet Home Junior High Oregon Battle of the Books team finished in the top eight at the District 2 Regional Competition held February 29 at Philomath High School. The team, composed of three...
Fighting through the fear to facts
Sometimes it’s a little shattering to realize how … human … the news media can be. The hysteria surrounding this coronavirus has certainly been a reminder of that. I, and probably you, have an “ideal” for what we want our media, including t...
Commissioner gives local retirees first-person account of Timber Trial
Linn County Commission Chair Roger Nyquist told a group of local retirees last week that the $1 billion timber lawsuit Linn and 12 other counties won against the Oregon Department of Forestry last November unveiled a dearth of data behind the state...
Around Town March 11, 2020
Genealogists to host workshop Sweet Home Genealogical Society will hold its 40th annual workshop Friday and Saturday, March 13-14, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Genealogical Library, 1223 Kalmia St. Speakers will include Susan Copple on “Census...
Public Safety Log March 11, 2020
March 8 12:39 p.m. - Robert Michael Butterfield, 32, arrested on Sweet Home warrant for failure to comply on original charge of third-degree theft and a new charge of failure to register as a sex offender; and Carson Albert Strasser, 30, cited and...
Circuit Court roundup: Sweet Home man pleads no contest after standoff with police
Darrell Loren Schilling Darrell Loren Schilling, 51, of Sweet Home pleaded no contest in Linn County Circuit Court March 6 to three charges in connection to an incident that ended in a standoff with...
SH man dies after accidentally shooting himself
Investigators determined that a 65-year-old Sweet Home man died last week from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to a lower extremity. Sweet Home police responded to a report at 12:52 p.m. on March 5 from a citizen of a male lying face down...
Luka Ogden named cheer team's most valuable performer
Freshman Luka Ogden won the Sweet Home High School cheerleaders Pink Pom award, the equivalent of Most Valuable Player, during the team's awards banquet Thursday evening, March 5. The team award were...
