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A Sweet Home man died in the early morning hours of Sept. 19 when his motorcycle struck an elk near Scio. On Tuesday at 12:15 a.m., Linn County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a motor vehicle...

Sweet Home residents might have been surprised to find a young woman riding a horse through town on Thursday, Sept. 21. That same woman ate an entire pizza from All Star Pizza that evening. Apparently...

Two brush fires occurred within a 24 hour time frame in the Sweet Home area on Wednesday, Sept. 20 and Thursday, Sept. 21. The first fire, at 10:52 a.m. on Wednesday on Mountain Home Drive, was...

Chris Patchell, author of four crime thrillers set in Sweet Home, recently won a Readers' Favorite 2023 Bronze Medal for Best Crime Fiction. Her entry, "Hide Her", is the fourth book in the Lacey...

In less than a year, a new local restaurant has already opened up in the shell of a longtime classic Sweet Home dining establishment. The Cedar Shack closed in December of last year after nearly 58...

A local middle schooler is looking to raise money for a week-long educational trip to Washington D.C. with her mom next June, and she figured out a creative way to do it - selling homemade piñatas....

At the Sept. 19 Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District board meeting at Station 21, Fire Chief Nick Tyler shared that this summer SHFD personnel responded to the Moon Mountain, Hat Rock, Smith River,...

Linda Ivie is a Sweet Home resident that has spent a good majority of her time caring for others. Whether it is rescuing, painting, parenting, or volunteering, nothing is able to get in her way. "I...

On a hot July day the East Linn Museum held its annual yard sale. Volunteers tending the cash box sat watching seekers pass among tables loaded with donated goods on their yearly treasure hunt. Most...

At the Sept. 11 Sweet Home School District board meeting in the District Office, the Sweet Home Coalition for Artistic and Scholastic Enrichment (SHOCASE), donated $7,000 to the district for...

After serving for 13 years as Oregon Wrestling Association Chairman, Sweet Home High School wrestling coach Steve Thorpe is stepping down from that role. "I am going to focus on just coaching Sweet Ho...

At the Sept. 12 Sweet Home city council meeting at City Hall, the council approved by a 6-1 vote a resolution increasing salary schedules for non-represented city employees. The utilities manager...

On March 9, the house that was situated on Jeff Vanderpool's property, 1333 47th Avenue, which is also home to his business, Paradise Coach, burned down. Now only a gravel lot sits in its place. But...

A retired nurse, 52-year-old Stephanie Lewis loves helping people. "That's just me. I like to do things like that," she says. When she first moved to town in 2019 there were 25 kids in her Quince...

Aaron Hegge is a name known in town because of the Farmers Insurance Aaron Hegge Agency on Main Street. Now the 39-year-old is also the president of the Sweet Home Rotary Club. He took over the role...

The Sweet Home Police Department, Sweet Home Fire District and Oregon Department of Forestry all responded to a small brush fire just north of BiMart, 1980 Main St., on Sept. 21. Police assisted in... Full story

Five uniformed Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District personnel attended the annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony sponsored by the American Legion Post 10 on the north steps of the Linn County Courthouse at...

The 12th Best in the West Triathlon Festival at Lewis Creek Park and the surrounding areas on Sept. 9 and 10 brought in just under 1,000 racers from 23 states and various countries. That was about...

267 firefighters fought the Wiley Fire, but despite all this manpower they came up against a problem. How were they going to get fire fighting apparatus across Little Wiley Creek to continue battling...