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Mike Reynolds was honored with the Distinguished Service Award Saturday night, March 11, at the Sweet Home Chamber of Commerce's annual awards banquet, held at the Boys & Girls Club. Sean Morgan...

Back in 1972, when Jeff Harding graduated from high school, his father offered to buy him a shiny new calculator before he enrolled at Oregon State University. "They were new and exciting in those day...

These are just two of the homes festooned with lights and other goodies this year in the Sweet Home area. Both of these are new arrivals, the one in the first photo at the corner of 1st Avenue and...

Sweet Home Emergency Ministries is busier than ever, but SHEM is lacking volunteers, leaders of the organization said last week in a presentation to the Sweet Home Rotary Club. Cindy Rice, who...

Sweet Home's old City Hall annex made a trip across town Tuesday morning, Nov. 29, to the site of the Lebanon-based Family Assistance and Resource Center's Managed Outreach and Community Resource...

The Christmas season has arrived in Sweet Home, with windows getting some fresh holiday paint and a bunch of activities coming up this coming weekend, starting with the lighting of the City Hall Chris... Full story

Volunteers began brightening up Sweet Home's business windows with holiday cheer this week. In these photos, Mahala Gourley-Webster and Christelle Gourley paint an elf at 1121 Main St. on Saturday,...

Fred Schafer was a young Navy seaman in 1962 when his commanders summoned the ship's crew one day for a briefing while they were in port in Hawaii. "They told us we'd been selected for a top-secret gr...

Chris Fairchild wasn't quite prepared for what he encountered when he arrived at an Albany duplex last July to start an eviction process. Fairchild, a Linn County Sheriff's Office senior deputy, is a...

In the first photo, King Von James, left, and Queen Makayla Guthrie check out the view from their throne after they were crowned during the Homecoming Assembly Thursday morning, Oct. 13, at Sweet...

The Hunter's Moon rises above Foster Lake Sunday night, Oct. 9. Also called the "sanguine," or "Blood" Moon, Hunter's Moon is traditionally used to refer to the full moon that appears during the...

Sweet Home residents felt their houses shaking Friday morning as an earthquake that struck east Linn County just before 6 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7, centered about 14 miles north of Sweet Home, according...

Barb Swan was visiting with her brother about a month ago at her home on the upper end of 5th Avenue when she realized they weren't alone. "We were enjoying the birds, which I always feed," she said,...

By Sean Nealon Oregon State University Writer The use of virtual fencing to manage cattle grazing on sagebrush rangelands has the potential to create fuel breaks needed to help fight wildfires, a rece...

Porter Jo Hogan, who's 4½ months old, and her grandma Karla Hogan, get up close and personal with Levi the donkey during the Harvest Festival Saturday, Oct. 1. See more photos in our online...

It's never too late to chase your dreams. Photographer Craig Fentiman has captured open-space adventures on film since his adolescence. But after retiring last year, he decided to pursue this lifelong...

By Scott Swanson Of The New Era Robin Miller knelt on the ground in the yard west of East Linn Museum last week, twisting wires together. He was putting the finishing touches – lights – on a...

A farewell party for Sweet Home Police Chief Jeff Lynn took place at the Police Department on Sept. 26 to celebrate Lynn's 23 years of service to the Sweet Home community in the police profession....

At its Sept. 20 meeting, the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District Board of Directors discussed the public safety power shutoffs that kept parts of the city in the dark for close to 20 hours. The out...

Anyone in search of fall-themed fun should be able to find it this weekend during the city's 16th annual Harvest Festival, running from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, at Sankey Park, 877 14th Ave...

Under a dark sky on the outskirts of Lebanon, under cover of trees and brush and set upon a clearing, friends and strangers gathered Friday, Sept. 2, to share the experience of throwing light with...

It all began with a forecast, albeit a familiar one with historically dire consequences. The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning Wednesday, Sept. 7. That meant strong winds, warm temper...

It was probably Vincent Helstrom's proudest – and perhaps most embarrassing – one minute of his life when former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland took his green Dean ML guitar, strummed a few...

Visitors to the physical therapy program at the Lebanon branch of Western University of Health Sciences can support its dual mission just by walking through one of the two front doors. The door on...