Photos of Sweet Home residents at play and mopping up after a 90-plus-mile-per-hour wind storm earned The New Era first place awards at the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association annual Better Newspaper Contest held Friday at Newport.
Sean C. Morgan shot the photo of a mud-caked contestant at the Mountain Mud Festival in March. It earned first place in the sports category.
Alex Paul photographed a resident of South Fork Trailer Park dealing with life after…