Lebanon Local

The Lebanon Community Hospital Foundation will host a MedTalk Luncheon, The Recovery Recipe: Exploring the Ingredients of Addiction and Recovery, from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. The complimentary luncheon will feature Robert Fallows, PsyD, senior medical director for Behavioral Health at Samaritan Health Services, and Raymond Simon ...

Aug. 30, 1951

 

Results of the latest bloodmobile visit targeting Sweet Home’s lumber company employees were disappointing as only 64 of the 104 men who signed up showed up for their appointment. Only 77 pints of the 125-pint goal were obtained, though it would have been less if the unscheduled, drop-in visits that day didn’t occur. The scheduler said “Sw...

Thirteen former OYA staff say top management ignored years of complaints about ‘Dr. Cold Fingers.’

By Nigel Jaquiss

Oregon Journalism Project

Thirteen former Oregon Youth Authority staff have submitted sworn statements describing years of sexual abuse by a longtime agency physician and accusing OYA leaders of knowing abou...

A capacity crowd watches the Canyon RIders drill team perform
during the event. – Photo by Scott Swanson

The second year of the revived Sweet Home Rodeo outstripped its inaugural predecessor in both size and content.

The event on Saturday night, Aug. 15, at the Rodeo Grounds on Long Street, drew well over 2,000 people and was close to standing room only by the cli...

Tomas Rosa has said many times, publicly, that he’s grateful that he grew up in Sweet Home.

A standout athlete at Sweet Home High School, he grew up with an absent father and says he’s the product of, well, Husky sports and the people involved in them.

Rosa arrived in Sweet Home as a youngster with his family from California and got plugged into Boys & Girls...