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Volunteers sought to digitize local newspaper
One of the greatest assets to researchers is access to newspapers dating back decades and even centuries. The…
May 12, 2026
Mural brings ‘Greetings’ to Festival Street
Within one hour of its start, heads were already turning to eye what was clearly shaping up to…
May 12, 2026
Drifting Makes a turn in Sweet Home
Drifters slide their tricked-out vehicles around corners, above, on opening day at The Mill Drift Track Saturday, May…
May 12, 2026
Scene Around Town: May 6, 2026
Locally Fresh at Tractor Supply Lebanon’s Tractor Supply store has become the newest location for a farmer’s market.…
May 5, 2026
Events: May 6, 2026
Upcoming City Meetings These are regularly-scheduled meetings. Sometimes the dates or times are changed due to schedule conflicts…
May 5, 2026
Willamette Speedway enters new season with big change
Willamette Speedway kicked off its 60th season on April 18 – and a new era for the one-third…
April 28, 2026
Father-daughter duo share their art talents in SH City Hall gallery
By Satina Tolman For The New Era The newest installment of the SHOCASE Art Exhibit at Sweet Home…
April 28, 2026
Rod Sell finds retirement trail in building real ones
Rod Sell has always enjoyed the outdoors – cycling, hiking, that sort of thing. But as he retired…
April 28, 2026
Scenes Around Town: April 22, 2026
Mini Medical School Day Above, a kindergarten “patient” from Riverview Elementary, center, smiles after her classmates successfully performed…
April 21, 2026
Donation boosts Lebanon museum fundraising efforts
“Lebanon has a history worth preserving, and the town should have a museum.” That’s the message the Lebanon…
April 14, 2026
Local teachers seek win for science, school funds
Brooklyn McElroy, a science teacher at Lebanon High School, Amber Arceo-Bigoni, an agriculture teacher at Sweet Home High…
April 8, 2026
Scene Around Town: April 1, 2026
Growing Expert Gardeners Master Gardeners of OSU Extension Service kicked off its free weekly series of garden lectures,…
March 31, 2026
Sr. centers offer activities, companionship, for east Linn County elderly
By Satina Tolman For The New Era As the years pass, life often settles into a quieter rhythm.…
March 24, 2026
Local organizations receive grants for cultural projects
The Linn County Cultural Coalition handed out a total of $28,009 in grants to cultural projects and events…
March 24, 2026
Volunteers brave weather to plant trees at Marks Slough
It was pouring rain, but nobody seemed to mind – except a photographer who was trying to keep…
March 17, 2026
Lebanon competition draws top fiddlers from throughout NW
It was a foot-stompin’, tune-swappin’ day Saturday, March 14, as top musicians from around the Northwest gathered to…
March 17, 2026
Steinhebel, Adamson given top awards at DSA
Jason Adamson and Michelle Steinhebel were named Man and Woman of the Year at the Lebanon Chamber of…
March 10, 2026
Local author shares journey of Sasquatch ‘awakening’
Author Michelle Heaton has been acquainted with Sasquatch since she was a 5-year-old girl living in a rural…
March 10, 2026
Events: March 4, 2026
Sunshine Industries fundraiser dinner Sunshine Industries will hold its annual fundraising event from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday,…
March 4, 2026
New officer, who grew up locally, emphasizes relationship in work
By Satina Tolman For The New Era For Officer Tye Moore, putting on the badge isn’t about authority;…
March 3, 2026
Author pens book about local leader
Being born a girl was her first mistake. That’s the perspective author Elle Mott believes her great-great grandfather…
March 3, 2026
Third chapter in author fair reveals some new authors
Friends of the Lebanon Public Library held its third annual author fair, featuring 44 authors from Lebanon and…
March 3, 2026
Scene Around Town: Elbow grease for Velma Canfield
Staffers at Dad Bod Detailing polish up an SUV Saturday afternoon, Feb. 28, during a fundraiser for Sweet…
March 3, 2026
Local boy wins state, advances to regional Hoop Shoot
Eli Strong, of Sweet Home , won this year’s Elks Hoop Shoot 10-11-year-old boys state competition and is…
March 3, 2026
Linda Ziedrich quiet leader in many Lebanon efforts
Linda Ziedrich sits in her living room, an assortment of books scattered across the table in front of…
February 24, 2026