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Scene Around Town: May 21, 2025
Oak Heights holds annual carnival, auction There as a lot going on Saturday evening, May 10, at Oak…
Scene Around Town: May 21, 2025
Breakfast feed funds medical equipment Above, Halsey-Shedd fire crews serve up pancakes, eggs and ham for (from…
Jamboree organizers plan beefed-up events leading to festival
Sweet Home residents have the opportunity to enjoy some juiced-up events from the Oregon Jamboree, which began May…
Saturday Market back for its third year in Library Square
By Timothy Major For The New Era A full cloud cover, mid-50s temperatures, and a cool breeze did…
Oregon’s plane history display in Portland has local ties
Soar through the history of aviation in the Oregon Historical Society’s newest exhibition, “She Flies with Her Own…
Scene Around Town: May 7, 2025
Held every week through October from 3-6 p.m., the Brownsville Thursday Market opened on May 1 at the…
Booking It for Halsey Reading
More supporters turned out this year than ever before in the annual “Book-It” 5K Library Fundraiser, held Saturday,…
Looking Back for the Future
Two historical reenactors prepare for a skit in the Moyer House, one of several vignettes playing throughout town…
Scene Around Town: April 30, 2025
Arbor Day Celebration at Sankey Park Sweet Home celebrated its 38th year as a Tree City USA with…
County’s new RV dump station to open May 8
The public is invited to a ribbon cutting and grand opening for the new Linn County Parks &…
Carriage Me Back in Brownsville this weekend
Brownsville’s annual Carriage Me Back celebration will provide attendees a chance to step back in time to 1909…
Kids of all ages enjoy Sankey egg hunt
Four- to 6-year-olds scramble for eggs during the Rotary Club’s annual egg hunt held Saturday morning, April 19,…
Traveling exhibit at library features innovations of Native Americans
The Sweet Home Public Library is hosting an exhibit from the Museum of Natural and Cultural History that…
Easter Scene Around Central Linn: April 23, 2025
Scrambling for Egg-citing Pursuit Children poise themselves and pay close attention for the sound of a whistle that…
Gala delivers musical journey around the world
By Satina Tolman For The New Era The fifth annual SHOCASE Gala, themed “Passport to the World,” transformed…
Thousands turn out for 75th annual Rock and Mineral Show
By Cindi HamarFor The New Era Petrified wood and lots of other mineral attractions were the stars last…
Gala concert to feature international flare
SHOCASE’s upcoming “Passport to the World” concert gala will take the audience around the world with special guests…
Rail bikes to offer pedal-to-metal sight-seeing
Santiam Excursion Trains is rolling out a new service on its tracks in Sweet Home, one which will…
Visiting historian seeks to unearth what’s beneath Foster Lake
An environmental historian, referred to once as “the drowned towns guy,” is making a visit to Sweet Home…
FFA holds inaugural Community Night
Fifteen candidates, most of them freshmen, received their Greenhand Degrees after completing their first-year requirements in Sweet Home’s…
Students to stage Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’
By Cindi Hamar For The New Era Sweet Home High School drama students will perform William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth…
Residents clear trash from Sweet Home, expand to Lebanon
Sweet Home and Lebanon got 600 pounds lighter after community members picked up trash in the two cities…
Local author celebrates launch of first two chapter books
When Simone Dankenbring walked into the Sweet Home Public Library on Saturday, she felt like she was home,…
‘Sweetheart’ fun run for The New Era
Here are (fairly) official results of the Feb. 8 fun run held to benefit The New Era. Thanks…
Linn Seedling Sale Saturday at fairgrounds
By Larry Mauter LCSWA member The NOAA Climate Prediction Center long-range forecast suggests above average rainfall and cooler…