Teen’s death after football game stirs SH community
Sweet Home High School sophomore Mason Flores has died after sustaining a head injury in a football game…
Albany win puts Husky harriers on ‘competitive’ radar
Sweet Home’s boys had a big day at the Harrier Classic cross-country meet Saturday, Oct. 3, at Albany’s…
SH fire officials get ‘unique’ chance to share wildfire strategy
Two Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District staffers participated in late September in a national program designed as…
After 50 years, logger Richard Malusky still loves woods
In 1975, Richard Malusky wanted a job in the woods, and when he got it, he never left.…
LPD officers describe operations, successes, needs at Forum Lunch
Lebanon Police lieutenants Taylor Jackson and Ryan Padua found themselves in front of the crowd Friday, Sept. 25,…
Huskies win league opener, share early lead in boys soccer
Sweet Home entered this week tied for the early-season lead in the Mountain Valley Conference boys soccer standings…
Local teams do well at ELCA home XC meet at Cheadle
Sweet Home and East Linn both had good days Friday, Sept. 25, at the Champs Invite, hosted by…
SH Fire Board approves ambulance rate increases
Ambulance rates in Sweet Home will rise after Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District board members approved increases…
Huskies up football record to 3-0 with 42-7 win over JC
Sweet Home’s football team stayed undefeated Friday night with a decisive 42-7 win over Junction City in their…
Sweet Home remembers 9/11 with American Legion ceremony
Sept. 11, 2001 began “as just an ordinary Tuesday morning” 25 years ago, in the words of Sweet…
Rest in peace, Joan – and please ignore that typo
My introduction to Joan Scofield came in 2006, when she marched into The New Era newspaper office and…
ELCA cross-country looks strong on girls side
New Head Coach Meggan Modderman comes into East Linn’s cross-country program with a team of veteran girls and…
Eagles, in reconfigured league, aiming for soccer playoffs
Chris Fenerty took the helm of the East Linn boys soccer team last year, leading them to an…
Growing cross-country program making strides
Lebanon’s cross-country team is starting young this year – with one senior on the boys side and one…
Warriors looking to climb ranks in MWC volleyball
Grace Tuli, Lebanon’s head volleyball coach, knows her players. Her senior leaders were freshmen when Tuli took over…
Retiring gallery curator displays one last exhibit – hers
Lee Roscoe-Bragg has been part of the east Linn County art scene since she arrived from northern California.…
Opinion: Lessons from 9/11 were often too temporary
My memories of 9/11 are getting a bit hazy, perhaps because I’m not really a morning person and…
Veteran Eagle spikers aiming for deeper dive at state
East Linn Christian’s volleyball team enters this season with some top-down changes – literally – to its lineup,…
Young, but veteran Huskies looking for big year in cross-country
Five years ago, Dave Martin took over a Sweet Home cross-country program that had been decimated by COVID…
Huskies building skills as they enter new division in boys soccer
Sweet Home’s boys soccer team is entering a new season that could be very different than what the…
Coach says he’s ‘excited’ by potential for girls soccer season
Sweet Home girls soccer Head Coach Ramiro Santana is “excited” as his team starts to answer the question:…
After week with Hotshots, SH wildland crew converges on local fire
Sweet Home’s Wildland Fire Crew 21 was working the Grasshopper Fire east of Mt. Hood earlier this month…
New Oak Heights principal running halls – in different way
Ryan Adams sits at his new desk at Oak Heights Elementary School in Sweet Home, a place where…
Fire destroys home, spreads over two acres on Fern Ridge
A manufactured home was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 18 on Fern Ridge, and spread into nearby…
SH Fire Board appoints Gaskey to fill vacancy; Johnson resigns
Although most of Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District’s top staffers were out fighting fires Tuesday, Aug. 18,…