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From Our Files: Oct. 8, 2025
Oct. 12, 1950 Members of the Sweet Home Active Club are talking about a project to construct…
Send in the Cavalry: The Oregon Volunteer Cavalry – 1861-1864
By Roberta McKern For The New Era The Oregon Volunteer Cavalry played a significant role in maintaining order…
From Our Files: Oct. 1, 2025
Oct. 5, 1950 Paul Bailey, student manager for the Sweet Home football team, was treated for electric…
From Our Files: Sept. 24, 2025
Sept. 28, 1950 As many as 16 arrests were made this week on a variety of charges.…
From Our File: Sept. 17, 2025
Sept. 21, 1950 The Crusade for Freedom campaign is now underway. A proclamation was issued outlining the…
From Our Files: Sept. 10, 2025
Sept. 14, 1950 After an eight-week strike, employees of Willamette National Lumber Company in Foster went back to…
From Our Files: Sept. 3, 2025
Sept. 7, 1950 Jackie and Ed Bishop, Sweet Home brothers wanted in this area by federal, state and…
Greener grass a big driver in settlement of Sweet Home
By Roberta McKern For The New Era Mankind – pardon, “humankind” – has ever been inclined to go…
From Our Files: Aug. 27, 2025
Aug. 31, 1950 Police are looking for a capricious clock snatcher who took two electric clocks from the…
From Our Files: Aug. 20, 1950
Aug. 24, 1950 A modern, new lookout, which will be manned for the first time next year, was…
From Our Files: Aug. 13, 2025
Aug. 17, 1950 A six-foot raised center island is included in plans for widening of Main Street. It…
From Our Files: Aug. 6, 2025
Aug. 10, 1950 City Council approved the purchase of a new one-ton flatbed truck to replace the…
From Our Files: July 30, 2025
Aug. 3, 1950 City Manager Jess Parker announced the widening of Highway 20 through Sweet Home is…
From Our Files: July 23, 2025
July 27, 1950 The second application of anti-mosquito spray (DDT) is scheduled this week in the early…
From Our Files: July 16, 2025
July 20. 1950 The city’s first flag pole was erected on the side of the local police…
King Tut versus East Linn Museum
By Roberta McKern For The New Era Why King Tut? The real topic is about legacies left…
From Our Files – July 9, 2025
July 13, 1950 The subject of a three-week manhunt, Jerry Macomber, 27, was nabbed in Medford after…
From Our Files: July 2, 2025
July 6, 1950 The Sweet Home area received its first 1950 anti-mosquito spray by air and pickup…
From Our Files: June 25, 2025
June 29, 1950 Police are looking for a marauder who apparently rode out of the woods on…
From Our Files: June 18, 2025
June 22, 1950 A recent census revealed Sweet Home’s rise in population made it the highest percentage…
From Our Files: June 11, 2025
June 15, 1950 Police Officer Albert Osborn was cleared of a manslaughter charge at a preliminary hearing…
From Our Files: June 2, 2025
June 8, 1950 The city will receive the first of three anti-mosquito sprayings in June. A contract…
Museum visit can bring words of wisdom to mind
By Roberta McKern For The New Era Sometimes visiting the East Linn Museum can jar loose memories of…
From Our Files: May 28, 2025
June 1, 1950 The Sweet Home Swimming Pool Association, inactive for several months, was reorganized when new…
From Our Files: May 21, 2025
May 25, 1950 Four high school students received minor injuries when an unidentified roadside vandal threw a…