About a month after some Sweet Home residents noticed tinted water coming out of their faucets, representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers joined Sweet Home city staff for a contentious...

Sweet Home's Sugar City Gleaners are asking the community for help to replace their thrift store's front door, after it was shattered during a break-in. Theresa Howard, the Chair of the Gleaners'...

Amid a crowd of proud parents and faculty, 15 Sweet Home High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society. During the ceremony, held in the school's library on Tuesday, Nov. 14,...

Up Ames Creek Road, just outside of town, sits a family farm with no shortage of stories to tell. The legacy began with Frank McCubbins and his exotic animals. Now, it's carried on by his daughter...

Fighting cancer can often be a roll of the dice. But one Sweet Home group used the classic game of chance to help a local woman take the edge off her battle with breast cancer. Wanda Jones was named...

Dozens of Sweet Home families could get a chance to do their Christmas shopping for free this weekend, during the 9th annual Kids Free Christmas Store on Dec. 2. The event opens at 10 a.m. at Hope...

Lights, ornaments, tinsel: these are the common sights on a Christmas tree. In Sweet Home, you can add singing people to that list. Back for their 41st year, the Sweet Home Community Singing...

Sweet Home's water quality took a central focus at the city council meeting held Monday, Nov. 13, where Public Works Director Greg Springman said he's preparing for high turbidity in the water to...

Certain Sweet Home residents can get some help on their utility bills, after council approved a Utility Assistance Program during the Nov. 13 meeting. Councilors approved a cap of $5 in assistance...

As the sun started to set and temperatures dipped into the 40s, dozens flocked to Sweet Home's Skate Park on Long Street, Wednesday, Nov. 15. While some were there to skate, others were there to give...

Hundreds of boxes of cereal came toppling down on Friday, Nov. 17 at Hawthorne Elementary School, as kids chanted and cheered: "Knock down hunger!" It's part of a food drive by the same name, where ki...

Sweet Home's very own Gregory Home Team is gearing up to give away hundreds of turkeys to their clients as part of a yearly gesture of appreciation. "Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays,"...

Keen Sweet Home hikers will have more than giants and bigfoot to keep an eye out for this winter. The Willamette Valley Visitors Association launched their sixth annual ornament hunt on Friday, Nov....

The Best in the West Triathlon Festival will now be held in June, due to wildfires and the recurring Green Peter Reservoir drawdown, according to event organizers. In a press release, organizers said...

Members of the Sweet Home community will have a chance to bring their concerns directly to the Army Corps of Engineers in a town hall meeting next Monday, Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m. The announcement was mad...

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office identified Nancy Hoffman, 79, as the person who died in a house fire in the 28200 block of Highway 20 on Thursday, Nov. 9. Sweet Home fire officials said they...

A home in the 28000 block of Fern Ridge Road is in ruins after being engulfed in flames early Sunday morning. According to a press release from the Sweet Home Fire District, crews arrived on scene at...

C.S. Lewis once wrote in A Grief Rediscovered: "I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process." Many people could probably...

Hundreds gathered along the streets in Albany for the 73rd Linn County Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 11. The parade's crowd was nearly matched by the participants, ranging from the...

Journeying thousands of miles, crossing the Atlantic and the continental United States, a group of children arrived in Sweet Home with a song in their hearts. The African Children's Choir performed...