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The Sweet Home High School basketball team named junior Hunter Coulter its Most Valuable Player during its annual awards banquet on March 10. "Coulter had a really good season," said Coach Drew...

Ron Moore is known for a variety of things in Sweet Home: civic leader, president of the Sweet Home Economic Development Group (which produces the Oregon Jamboree), community booster, youth sports...

Freshman Luka Ogden won the Sweet Home High School cheerleaders Pink Pom award, the equivalent of Most Valuable Player, during the team's awards banquet Thursday evening, March 5. The team award were...

By Scott Swanson Of The New Era It was oh-so-close, but Sweet Home's wrestlers fell just short of beating a stacked La Grande team in the state championships Friday and Saturday, Feb. 28-29. But the...

Swim Coach Doug Peargin named the four Huskies who placed in the state championship swimming finals Outstanding Swimmers of the Year for the girls swimming team at the annual awards night Thursday,...

Former Sweet Home star Ally Tow (2018) signed a letter of intent Feb. 19, during halftime at a Linn-Benton Community College basketball game, to play volleyball at Corban University. Tow led LBCC...

Phoenix came to town with a hot hand Friday night and hit a lot of shots early, including six three-pointers, to build an insurmountable lead against their hosts in boys basketball to end the...

The Sweet Home High School girls swim team finished second, setting two state records, in the 4A/3A/2A/1A state championships Saturday in Beaverton. Four girls, Megan Hager, Jamie Seward, Malia...

Sweet Home wrestlers won their sixth straight regional wrestling title Saturday, Feb. 22, with a dominating performance in the Special District 2 championships held at Stayton. "We showed up," said Co...

The Sweet Home boys lost to Cascade 51-48 in overtime at home in basketball Feb. 18 and then beat Sisters 45-20 at home Friday evening. Against Cascade, the Huskies had a rough time at the free thrown...

As their season wound down last week, Sweet Home's girls lost games to Sisters 45-39 at home Friday and Cascade 45-33 at home Feb. 18 in basketball. "Sisters played a great game," said Sweet Home Coac...

Sweet Home's girls won their seventh straight Special District 3 swimming championship Saturday, Feb. 15, at the South Albany Aquatic Center. The boys, with six swimmers, placed ninth. Individual...

Senior Night for the Sweet Home wrestling team was saved by ... Stayton on Thursday, Feb. 13. The Huskies were scheduled to wrestle their final home dual against North Marion, but the visitors were on...

The past year has been a bit of a whirlwind for Sweet Home High School senior Casey Tow, and signing a letter of intent to compete in track for the U.S. Naval Academy last week was just one more...

Sweet Home held off a late rally by Stayton to win 59-53 at home Feb. 11 in boys basketball. At this point, the Huskies have likely secured a play-in slot, said Coach Drew Emmert. Winning out the...

The Husky girls fell 61-45 to Stayton Feb. 11 in basketball. "I thought we played really well," said Coach Michelle Knight. "Stayton's a really good team, and I felt like we competed well the whole...

With eight experienced dancers returning, the Sweet Home High School Huskiettes dance team is taking on a more challenging routine during this year's competitive season. Returning juniors are Kaitlyn...

Sweet Home Junior High wrestlers show off their hardware after wining the Valley League district tournament Saturday, Feb. 8, at Creswell. The Tigers' 21 wrestlers in the 15-team tournament took home...

Sweet Home’s girls placed sixth out of 61 teams at the OSAA South Regional Wrestling Championships held Feb. 6-7 at Thurston High School. The boys won the district dual championships behind some...