Sarah Brown
Dr. Carl Hoogesteger, Sweet Home Family Medicine’s newest physician, is familiar with small-town Oregon life.
He grew up in Gold Beach, a small coastal town of 2,000 people. There were 60 kids in his graduating class.
“It was totally normal if you dated girls that your friends also dated, [and] everyone goes to the football game,” he said. “So I kind of feel like I know small-town Ore-gon.”
Hoogesteger, an only child, remembers…