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February 16, 2013
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Third person applies for open seat on Roseburg City Council

The competition for a Roseburg City Council seat recently vacated by Melissa Smith is heating up. A third person, property developer Lew Marks, 73, has applied for the post, creating a dramatic contrast to the November election, in which not a single council seat was contested. The other two applicants so far are former councilor Mike Baker and Josh Tibbetts. Baker was on the council for a total of eight years before giving the seat up for an unsuccessful run last year against Mayor Larry Rich. When he applied last month, Tibbetts, who has run unsuccessfully for mayor, criticized the …

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