The New Era - All about Sweet Home since 1929

Editor's note: In this issue we welcome Kelly Kenoyer, who has joined our staff to replace former reporter Sean Morgan, who has moved on to the Sweet Home Police Department. Here Kelly introduces herself.

By Kelly Kenoyer

Thank you, Sweet Home, for inviting me to join your community!

I'm the idealistic new reporter in town, fresh from the journalism master's degree program at the University of Missouri, where I studied audio and data reporting. Sweet Home may soon be home to its very own podcast!

I'm more local than my education implies, however. I grew up in Salem and went to University...