The New Era - All about Sweet Home since 1929

Memorial Day kicked off what’s shaping up to be a very active summer for Sweet Home, as the city, the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations have a lot of things planned – many of them brand new. Although we haven’t reported on all of thes...

Editor: What’s wrong with the bought-and-sold portions of this country today? The nation has forgotten God intentionally. There is a case for saying far too many residents are no longer citizens but are brainwashed into passive war-hawks who have...

Wow. Another topsy-turvy week in the state capital – the city. One thing we’ve noticed this year is that there seems to be more communication coming from the capitol – the building – and that’s a good thing in some ways. In fact, we’re...

Things are not going well in Salem. Unfortunately, that’s not new, but it’s still disappointing. Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, elected in 2020, resigned Monday afternoon after a Willamette Week  newspaper report revealed that Fagan had been...

The public disclosure, reported on page 1, that a neighbor of Foster School shot bullets which struck the school building on a Sunday morning in March, has stirred emotions in Sweet Home. Certainly, it’s sparked some energetic conversations. And...

By Jami Cate A major piece of legislation, sponsored by all but four Democrat legislators serving in Salem, is working its way through the Legislature. On the afternoon of April 14, the Joint Committee on Ways and Means met to deliberate and vote on...

Editor: First, it has been a pleasure serving on your school board, but after 20 years I have decided to step away. For most of the 20 years I have been on the board, we have all been able to work well together and always try to do what is best for...

Editor: As the National Day of Prayer approaches on Thursday, May 4, we are reminded of one of the prominent Bible verses in II Chronicles 7:14, which states, “If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek...

Hearing the City Council and staff discuss their plans for the future stirs ... hope. Planning is a good thing, and the city’s planning efforts are pointing, we think, in a good direction for Sweet Home. But, of course, that depends on how much...

Editor: In America’s current scandals, high crimes, tragedies, and combative rhetoric, we see highly threatening developments: economic, military, political, social, medical, educational, and more. Like depth charges, these reverberate deeper than...

A bill that’s making progress in the Oregon state Legislature is one that every rural Oregonian needs to pay attention to and weigh in on. Senate Bill 803, currently being heard by the Senate Committee on Energy and the Environment, would...

April 5, 1973 Property owners in Foster's Shoals Addition are going to the courts to try to get Linn County Commissioners to rescind an order vacating streets in the subdivision. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cornet and Citizens Valley Bank were also named as...

Devoted Disney fans may know that in the original “Bambi” movie, a mistake slipped onto the big screen. (There were a number of “mistakes,” but this one stands out.) In the original version of the film, following the great fire scene, a racco...

Editor: April is Child Abuse Awareness Month, and during that month, Sweet Home Police Department and the City of Sweet Home would like to invite the public to turn Sweet Home as blue as it can to remind people to look out for youngsters, to report s...

Editor: I am Angela Ross, Don Ross’s wife. Most of you know Donald for his oil paintings, and classes and such. Well, Donald has been given a mountain to climb. A few years ago he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that takes over...

Editor: The current federal administration has been nighttime trafficking unaccompanied alien children, using chartered airplanes, to multiple cities with every flight, dropping them off in city after city like items for delivery. Yep. According to...