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Thanks to local efforts, the Sweet Home downtown district may spring to renewed life in a revivifying paint job.

Sweet Home City Manager Kelcey Young told the Sweet Home City Council Tuesday, May 23, that the city was in conversations with an unnamed potential donor.

"If [property owners] want to participate in this, the idea is that it would be free paint all the way along downtown," she said, adding that the sponsor also offered color consultation and national press.

She described it as "a very dynamic color palette for downtown. Something that really is vibrant and beautiful and also rep...