Memorial Day ceremonies set for around Douglas County
The roar of F-15 Eagle Fighter jets will be absent from this year’s Memorial Day observances due to the federal budget sequestration, but veterans groups will soldier on with ceremonies in Douglas County. Flyovers by Oregon Air National Guard pilots …
Read More »Busted grate sends Roseburg cyclist head over heels
A Winchester man wants the city to better maintain storm grates like the busted one that grabbed his bicycle’s front tire last week and sent him over the handlebars and into a busy street. Michael Hocking, an applied arts teacher at Joseph Lane Middl …
Read More »Longtime News-Review staff writer John Sowell says so long
Eight months after arriving at The News-Review in February 1993, I wrote a story that accompanied a photograph of a dead skunk in the middle of Garden Valley Road, a yellow stripe down its backside. A Douglas County public works official explained i …
Read More »Best bets for Memorial Day Weekend 2013
VIOLIN VIRTUOSO — Cuban-born violinist Jaime Jorge will play a free show at 7 p.m. today at the Roseburg Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1109 N.W. Garden Valley Blvd. Jorge has recorded 15 albums over a two-decade career, and performed in 35 countries …
Read More »Marla Smart: Your kids are growing up fast
There is an old song by Steve and Annie Chapman called “Goodnight Kiss.” Some of the lyrics include: “I count it as a privilege I count it cause for praise to kiss my children goodnight at the close of everyday for I know too soon they're off and gon …
Read More »Riverbend Live! announces summer lineup
Kicking off Winston’s free outdoor summer concert series this year will be a Southern roots rocker evocative of Etta James and Ruth Brown. North Carolina native Nikki Hill was announced today as the first act of the 2013 Riverbend Live! summer lineup …
Read More »Roseburg enlists nature to treat wastewater bound for South Umpqua River
The wind blowing over what was once a sheep farm west of Roseburg sways cattails and ripples a pond that’s fed with every flush. The bucolic green valley off Old Melrose Road is where the city’s wastewater will get an extra scrubbing. The Zenor-Neun …
Read More »California teenager in critical condition after highway crash near Myrtle Creek
A California teenager who was traveling north for an outdoor music festival was critically injured in a crash around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday north of Myrtle Creek Natasha Hastings, 17, of Redondo Beach, Calif., drove a 2001 Dodge Stratus through a stop …
Read More »Arts & Entertainment: Roseburg band Hemlock Lane seeks path to success
A band that started in a Roseburg High School songwriting class is now a polished unit with a professional stage presence. Hemlock Lane has come a long way from the group that stood around on stage between songs. “It’s gone from long, awkward silenc …
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