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Council OKs deal to buy police radio equipment
The Sweet Home City Council last week approved a $100,000 deal for new police radio equipment. Complete Wireless Solutions offered Kenwood dual band radios, including 20 portable units that can be carried by officers and nine mobile units used in...
Cadaver shortage spurs LBCC to buy virtual version
When faculty members told Kristina Holton, dean of Linn-Benton Community College's Science, Engineering and Math division, they needed a $70,000 computerized table to help students learn the human...
Police say they plan to focus on downtown traffic issues
Sweet Home Police Department will spend time in the upcoming months addressing traffic issues in the downtown area, and next year’s budget will include funding for four new automated speed monitoring devices and reader boards. City staff and...
Dodgeball tournament turns out to be real hit
Kris Latimer, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Santiam, wasn't really sure what she was getting into when she decided to hold a dodgeball tournament as a fundraiser for t...
Grant ensures continued visits to PCC by mobile ultrasound van
A grant from the Sweet Home Community Foundation will help ensure that a mobile medical van continues to visit Sweet Home to provide ultrasounds and tests for sexually transmitted diseases and to...
Public Safety Log April 17, 2019
April 12 9:28 a.m. - Nicholas Godell arrested on Linn County warrant for failure to appear, 41800 block of North River. Transported to Linn County Jail. April 11 7:28 a.m. - Alan Owens, 47, cited for misdemeanor driving while suspended, 39300 block...
SH man gets six months after no-contest plea to sex charge
Nishan Singh, 58, of Sweet Home was sentenced to six months in jail April 5 in Linn County Circuit Court after pleading no contest to one count of third-degree sexual abuse, a class A misdemeanor. Two counts of third-degree sexual abuse were...
Huskies leave it all on the stage in Milli Vanilli
For more photos, take a look at our photo gallery: https://www.sweethomenews.com/photos/04_17_2019...
School Board OKs SHJH construction
The Sweet Home School Board approved a plan Monday evening, April 8, to spend $5 million and begin the first of two construction phases for the Sweet Home Junior High. The district received voter...
Steady rains edge SH toward flood conditions
Other than a brief break March 3, the rain fell last week at about a half inch per day, and then it really came down over the weekend, closing roads around Linn County, raising the lakes to their...
New library computer big draw for young patrons
Thanks to a grant from the Sweet Home Community Foundation, the Sweet Home Public Library has added a new computer dedicated to after-school education, building on the "early literacy station" it...
Chief to target recurring arrests
Based on statistics from 2018, Police Chief Jeff Lynn wants to tackle an ongoing cycle that results in hundreds of new warrants issued each year, he said. In 2018, Sweet Home Municipal Court entered 784 warrants, primarily for failure to appear in...
Sweet Home High School Winter Honor Roll
SHHS Honor Roll Criteria: Students on Honor Roll must have taken at least four letter graded classes (A-C). Students who receive a D, F, Incomplete or No Grade (G) are not eligible for the Honor Roll. Seniors - 4.00: Boe Baxter, Christina Belcher,...
Sweet Home Junior High Winter Honor Roll
Eight Grade – 4.00: Taryn Abbott, Brookelynn Burke, Leilanie Chao, Zoey Erevia, Alexis Franklin, Suzie Griffin, Rylie Hooley, Isaac Lindsey, Avery Nelson, Amadia Newcomer, Michael Northern, Jackson Parrish, Nora Pettner, Madi Shively, Kristan...
Comcast fiber line price quote gives councilors sticker shock
The Sweet Home City Council balked Thursday night, April 4, at the price of extending a fiber optic line to the new City Hall in a proposal by Comcast to provide fiber Internet service to city buildings. The proposed price tag was $24,380. Councilor...
Proposed 2019-20 city budget includes big capital projects spending hike
Sweet Home's city manager is proposing an 18.8-percent increase in spending, mostly composed of some $6.5 million in capital projects, in the city's proposed 2019-20 budget. City Manager Ray Towry...
County completes most of dam road improvements
Linn County has completed substantial portions of its Foster Dam Access Road project, paving the gravel parking lot at the western shore of the lake, expanding the intersection with Poplar Street and widening a portion of the road between Poplar and...
