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Car fire spreads into brush on Mountain Home Road
A burning car sparked a brush fire in the 29500 block of Sodaville Mountain Home Road Sunday morning,…
Volunteers sought for county advisory panels
Do you have an interest in improving Linn County’s parks? Or increasing health care opportunities for Linn County’s…
County youth wage program returns
Linn County is accepting applications for the 17th annual Summer Youth Wage Program sponsored by Linn County commissioners…
Linn, Marion to propose OSH changes
Commissioners Roger Nyquist, Sherrie Sprenger and Will Tucker agreed Tuesday morning, May 30, that Linn County would join…
Sunnyside Park to begin charging day use fee
A $7 day use parking fee will be charged at Sunnyside County Campground effective Friday, June 9, according…
Fir Lawn church to be sold
By Scott Swanson Of The New Era/Lebanon Local Three months after an arson fire destroyed a portion of…
Crash in Sweet Home results in outages, fire
A car that collided with a power pole along Highway 20 early Thursday, June 1, led to a…
DA: Shooting of Cascadia man justified
By Scott Swanson Of The New Era/Lebanon Local Linn County District Attorney Doug Marteeny last week announced in…
LHS graduation sneak peak gallery
Lebanon High School graduated almost 300 students on Tuesday, June 7. Here’s a sneak look at some of…
Strawberry Festival sneak peek gallery
Here are a bunch of highlights of the Strawberry Festival weekend. Stay tuned as we put together this…
Doc’s Memoirs: Cows never eat the stuff (or, the trouble with tansy)
By D.E. Larsen, DVM Here I was again, standing over a dead cow, in the middle of a…
Digging Treasures at the East Linn Museum: Lemonade takes the limelight
By Roberta McKern Lemonade has come to mind recently. The time of year had something to do with…
Linn County Juvenile Dept. reports results of school closures
Linn County Juvenile Director Torri Lynn told the board of commissioners Tuesday morning, April 23, that the two-year…
Sweet Home’s ‘Tune it Up Tuesdays’ event kicks off June 6
‘Battle of the Bands’ to be focus of 2023 concerts The Oregon Jamboree kicks off its Tune It…
Outdoors: Snapping turtle captured in Harrisburg
Wildlife officials captured a 25-pound snapping turtle found wandering through a Harrisburg pasture on Apr. 28. The invasive…
Soooooo close – Warriors fall by a run in extra innings to Dallas in state softball final
By Benny Westcott Lebanon Local Lebanon’s softball team had lost to Dallas 7-1 and 8-5 during the regular…
Burn pile causes one-acre fire
Lebanon Fire District responded to a grass fire in the 39000 Block of Lacomb Drive that burned more…
Part of 5th Street set for temporary closure
The City of Lebanon will have 5th Street closed to through traffic from Vaughan Lane to the Crowfoot…
LFD responds to possible fire caused by dryer
Lebanon Fire District firefighters responded to an apartment fire in the Sandridge Court apartments late Monday evening, May…
Thieves steal fire investigation tools
The Lebanon Fire District discovered a break-in at Station 33 in Fairview on Monday, May 29. Thieves cut…
Vegetation fire contained after burning three-quarters of an acre on Upper Berlin
A vegetation fire burned approximately three-quarters of an acre in the 4000 block of Upper Berlin Drive Friday…
Tuber rescued upriver from Waterloo Park
A man who was floating the South Santiam River on a tube was rescued Saturday evening by Albany…
Gallery: Kids have fun in color at Cheadle
The rain clouds held back on May 6 just long enough for a couple hundred children to run…
Strawberry Fest to include changes
Lebanon’s 114th annual Strawberry Festival, themed “Peace, Love and Strawberries” will be held June 1-4 with expanded hours…
Lebanon’s longest-lived monarch one of royal line
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local Strawberry preserves must run in Ruth (Schackman) Lenox’s blood. The 1941 Strawberry Festival…