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Green kindergarten teacher Tatum Stedman holds a sign Monday evening at the corner of Pine Street and Washington Avenue in downtown Roseburg with others representing FIRMGROUND for Kids. Teachers, parents and students gathered on street corners to remind drivers to vote for bond levy in the May 21 election ballot.

Feature photos: Get out the vote

Supporters of a $6 million bond levy request by the Roseburg School District stump for votes Monday. Ballots are due by 8 p.m. today. …

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Former Winston City Adminisrator Bruce Kelly, looks into the steel tube that held the time capsule as former Winston Mayor Rex Stevens looks on in 2003. Kelly died Thursday at his home.

Former Winston city administrator remembered as ‘top guy’

WINSTON — When Bruce Kelly retired in 2004 after 14 years as city administrator, he didn’t sever his ties with City Hall. He came in periodically over the first few months to ensure that his successor, David Van Dermark — a first-time city administra …

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An employee of Wildish Construction of Eugene uses a backhoe to dig a trench around the work site in an effort to prevent erosion from the site into adjacent wetlands Monday afternoon at Roseburg Regional Airport.

Work begins on Roseburg Regional Airport taxiway

Work began Monday on the last major step in a 20-year plan to make the Roseburg Regional Airport more attractive to corporate fliers. Wildish Construction of Eugene will move the main taxiway 40 feet to the west, giving more room for larger airplanes …

Jemelene Wilson, Douglas County Moms blogger

Jemelene Wilson: Feeding our souls with time away from home

By the time this is published, I'll have returned from a weekend of time with friends. Every once in a while, the opportunity comes to feed my soul with time away from home. My husband supports this without the need for reciprocation, which adds to t …

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Jim Lockwood, a 24-year employee at Umpqua Dairy, works in the cottage cheese room at the Roseburg facility last week. Umpqua Dairy's cottage cheese placed first in a recent Quality Chekd national competition.

Umpqua Dairy earns national production award

Umpqua Dairy Products is celebrating — again. The family-owned Roseburg-based business won three awards at the Quality Chekd Dairies conference late last month in New Orleans. Umpqua Dairy received the 2013 Production Excellence Award as the best si …

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UCAN Director Mike Fieldman sits in his office recently, located at the nonprofit's Family Service Center on Kenneth Ford Drive in north Roseburg.

UCAN’s Mike Fieldman passionate about social justice

Mike Fieldman grew up surrounded by the very poor and the very rich in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Chicago. He developed his passion for social justice at an early age. Today, Fieldman, 62, directs the United Community Action Network, one of …

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Actor Kevin Spacey congratulates Caroline Brown, 18, of Glide and Cody Grater, 14, of Portland for being named Oregon's top two youth volunteers for 2013 by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards.

Caroline Brown of Glide honored in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Glide High School senior Caroline Brown was honored for her volunteer work as a recipient of a Prudential Spirit of Community Award at a ceremony on May 5 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. …

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Eugenia Lloyd, left, and Pete Strohn, both employees at the Douglas County Farmers Co-op, accept an order of hanging plants from Donna Wood, owner of Little River Greenhouse. Wood has been selling hanging plants to the co-op for the past three years.

Meet Your Merchant: Douglas County Farmers Co-op reaps rewards of seed planted long ago

A handful of Douglas County farmers formed a cooperative in 1921 to secure supplies and save money. The original name was the Douglas County Farm Bureau Cooperative Exchange. Today, the business is known as the Douglas County Farmers Co-op, and it’s …

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Burt Tate of Roseburg stretches before the start of the Umpqua Ultimate Triathlon at Cooper Creek Reservoir in Sutherlin Saturday.

News-Review photographer and reporter win regional SPJ awards

News-Review photographer Michael Sullivan’s image of a triathlete preparing to swim took first place for sports photography in a regional journalism contest. Winners of the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism c …