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A report of a wreck on the evening of Oct. 23 on Highway 228, which appeared in the Oct. 27 edition of The New Era contained reporting errors. It should have read as follows: 

A Sweet Home teen was cited Saturday, Oct. 23, for failing to stop as he emerged from a driveway and his vehicle was struck by another car on Hwy. 228 near Rowell Hill Road.

Oregon State Police responded to a report of the crash at 7:13 p.m. According to an OSP report, Douglas Duane Villines, 56, of Crawfordsville, was traveling westbound on Highway 228, near Milepost 19, when a passenger vehicle driven by a 16-year-...