Douglas County voters overwhelmingly turned down Umpqua Community College's $40 million bond proposal Tuesday, leaving the college to seek other ways to fund new buildings.
The mood was boisterous at UCC's election night

Incumbents Doug Robertson and Susan Morgan will return to the Douglas County Board of Commissioners after winning their nonpartisan races Tuesday.
Morgan's victory in the Position 1 race came despite a strong challenge from a former

CANYONVILLE - Incumbent Carol McGinnis Roberts defeated challenger Dale Rogers, 57 percent to 43 percent, to secure a fourth six-year term as Canyonville Justice of the Peace.
"I'm just going back to work now," Robe

REEDSPORT - Backers of a measure that passed Tuesday say they've struck a blow for smaller government, though critics say the blow they delivered will give the town a black eye.
An amendment to the city's charter that will lowe

Patty Hitt, appointed by Douglas County commissioners to replace Barbara Nielsen as county clerk when Nielsen retired at the beginning of the year, was all but elected Tuesday to a four-year term.
Hitt received 14,574 votes (64 perce

Women's health - incubated in health or terror?
I'm fortunate to be a mother. I know my health and the health of my children are intrinsically linked, and largely determined by the health of my relationships in l

DRAIN - The North Douglas School District can now remove asbestos from the high school and elementary school, thanks to a bond approved by voters Tuesday.
A 20-year, $960,000 bond passed easily, receiving 66 percent approval. T

LOOKINGGLASS - Residents here soundly defeated two ballot measures that would have dissolved the Lookingglass Rural Fire District and reformed it with a slightly larger boundary and an increased tax base.
Seventy-eight percent

An attempt to bring rural property owners into Douglas County Fire District No. 2 failed Tuesday when the owners of those properties torpedoed a ballot measure that would have annexed them into the district.
Measure 10-121 asked the

Douglas County Republicans have endorsed presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, the only GOP presidential candidate still campaigning.
The former Massachusetts governor received 72 percent (10,341 votes) of votes in the county. Texas Congr

Despite tough criticism from a challenger, incumbent Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg won in a landslide.
Wesenberg secured 74 percent of the vote. His challenger, Roseburg lawyer Charles Lee, received 26 percent.
Wes

A decade ago, during one of our daily half-hour lunch breaks out on the loading dock, the subject of celebrated beauties came up. When I nominated the actress Catherine Zeta Jones for the title of World's Most Beautiful Woman, L

Douglas County is fortunate to have had elected leaders who were looking ahead.
As the county's budget committee quietly concluded its meetings last week, it approved a 2012-13 budget that lifts nearly $24 million out of reser

UCC Bond
Yes 7,409 29%
No 18,525 71%

County Commissioner
Position 1
Susan Morgan 14,160 54%
Romey Ware 11,858 45%

Position 3
Doug Robertson 17,661 71%
Mark Garcia 4,050

CORVALLIS - Kavin Keyes hit a go-ahead bases-clearing triple in the second inning and Scott Schultz held Portland scoreless in 4 2/3 innings of relief to send the 23rd-ranked Oregon State baseball team to a 12-4 nonconference

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William Lewis Cockrell, Jr.
Age 80, of Winston, Oregon, passed away on Tuesday, May 1

Wayne T. Brown died Friday afternoon, May 11, 2012 with his two daughters by his side. He was 90. He was born on September 14, 1921 to Bessie and Walter Brown in a country farmhouse in Wisconsin. He was the oldest son in a huge family

YONCALLA - Brianne Joslyn struck out nine batters and got an excess of support in the form of 18 hits as Yoncalla, which finished third in the regular season standings, took District 2's No. 3 seed with a 19-1 win over Oak

Age 61, of Myrtle Creek, Oregon passed away on Monday, May 14, 2012 from Lung Cancer. He was born on July 8, 1950 to parents Hudson Behrens and Ruby Wilbur. Ralph served in the Navy for four years and deployed to Vietnam. Recently

Richard M. Plant of Florence passed March 14, 2012 of dementia and emphysema.
He was 82. Richard was born March 15, 1930 in Richmond, California, to Addie and William Plant. He lived in Roseburg from 1948-1998, serving in the arm