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From Our Files: Aug. 26, 2026
Aug. 30, 1951 Results of the latest bloodmobile visit targeting Sweet Home’s lumber company employees were disappointing…
From Our Files: Aug. 19, 2026
Aug. 23, 1951 The Sweet Home swimming team now has a name. Henceforth, the local splashers will…
From Our Files: Aug. 12, 2026
Aug. 16, 1951 A crowd attending the annual Frontier Days festivities got their first glimpse of the…
From Our Files: Aug. 5, 2026
Aug. 9, 1951 Alice Cook was identified as the Frontier Days queen. The blonde is employed at…
From Our Files: July 29, 2026
Aug. 2, 1951 Frontier Days’ annual Buckaroo Breakfast will be sited this year at the city park…
From Our Files: July 22, 2026
July 26, 1951 Support in an x-ray drive was urged in an attempt to procure chest x-ray…
Golden jubilee highlights SH history
Access to East Linn County’s historical roots became more tangible when the Sweet Home Genealogical Society and the…
From Our Files: July 15, 2026
July 19, 1951 Three Sweet Home boys, unidentified due to being underage, were found guilty for being…
From Our Files: July 1, 2026
July 12, 1951 Sweet Home’s water situation got worse when an overworked water pump gave up under…
Pondering Horse Histories
By Roberta McKern While venturing into the East Linn Museum, what we see among the artifacts can pique…
From Our Files: July 1, 2026
July 5, 1951 No local holiday celebrations marked the Fourth of July in the past nine years…
From Our Files: June 24, 2026
June 28, 1951 Sweet Home’s Mayor Eugene Ellis issued a letter to residents urging cooperation with water…
From Our Files: June 17, 2026
June 21, 1951 A new flare-up in the 240-acre Wiley Creek fire southeast of Foster caused fresh…
From Our Files: June 10, 2026
June 14, 1951 The city park will soon offer a variety of play equipment to youngsters. Park…
From Our Files: June 3, 2026
June 7, 1951 The Sweet Home fire department will sponsor a carnival next week on M Street…
Sidetracked by Two Heroes
By Roberta Kern At East Linn Museum, we’ve started looking in the “General History of Oregon,” written by…
From Our Files: May 27, 2026
May 31, 1951 Traffic in Sweet Home was re-routed off M Street on 10th and the Holley…
From Our Files: May 20, 2026
May 24, 1951 In the face of one of the worst farm labor shortages in recent years,…
From Our Files: May 13, 2026
May 17, 1951 First aid treatment for fracture and wound victims of an atomic explosion, their examination…
From Our Files: May 6, 2026
May 10, 1951 Sweet Home grade schools will join with the high school for the annual May…
In praise of the obsolete – and an icon or two
By Roberta McKern Even at the East Linn Museum, with spring comes optimism. A spate of visitors will…
From Our Files: April 29, 2026
May 3, 1951 Some Foster school children were injured when a log truck crashed into a school…
From Our Files: April 22, 2026
April 26, 1951 Construction will begin next week on a Dairy Queen building at M Street across…
From Our Files: April 15, 2026
April 19, 1951 Sweet Home’s high school board authorized a call for bids for the community’s anticipated…
From Our Files: April 8, 2026
April 12, 1951 “Two weeks from fighting snow to fighting fire” summarized the amazed and disgusted attitudes…