The New Era - All about Sweet Home since 1929

Noticed the Christmas cards that have magically appeared over the weekend around town?

If you happened to pass the Community Center on Saturday night – if you weren’t inside the building – you may have noticed that the parking lot was overflowing.

And it seems that Sweet Home residents have decided to battle the blues (or the short days, at least) with some of the most ambitious light displays we’ve seen in years. They’re everywhere.

Not to sound too hip-hip-hooray-ish, but we think these are signs that Sweet Home is rising, this holiday season, out of the morass of the COVID p...