There is only one acceptable response to the white supremacists who marched on Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend. That’s to call them what they are: evil.
In his final year as fairgrounds director, Harold Phillips pulled it off again.
Monday marks the official start of the high school sports fall season.
There’s a distinct correlation between parental addiction and child abuse and neglect. A parent’s addiction to drugs or alcohol is a factor one third of the time children are placed in foster care, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway of the U.S. Department of Health & Huma…
More and more, we’ve been able to cover community libraries popping up across the county and reopening in the face of the catastrophic budgetary nightmare.
At first glance, it’s heartening to see that several Douglas County schools are above the curve in rankings recently released by U.S. News and World Report.
It’s hot out there. So hot that the grass and forest lands need no more than a spark to go up in flames.
Get your lifetime senior pass for the national parks and federal recreational areas by Aug. 28, or it’ll cost eight times as much, headlines have blared through the summer months.
We’d like to take a moment to commend the community members who are spearheading efforts to make Roseburg a healthier, safer place to live by improving bicycle safety.
Yet again, Tolly’s Grill & Soda Fountain is for sale.
Harold Phillips could put on a show. And after more than two decades of the finest showmanship this county had to offer, we’re sad to see him go.
It’s the twinkle in the eye of a rest home resident, remembering the ’52 Pontiac she sneaked out of Grandma’s garage when she was 14, just so she could drive it around the block.
One doesn’t like to look a gift horse in the mouth. But what do you do when your son receives a generous gift, and your daughter’s overlooked?
If there’s one thing the massive crowd at Douglas County’s first food truck challenge could attest to, it’s that people love eating good food on Fourth of July.
News broke about two weeks ago that the North Douglas School District was not in compliance with the Oregon Department of Education and was at risk of losing state funds, because the district failed to inform the state of its new mascot.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.
It’s a bad feeling, and one that’s happened to many of us at one time or another.
Here’s a patriotic idea.
Blackberries, watermelons, fireworks and classic cars.
Farming and ranching bring a lot of money into Douglas County and support a lot of households. The county boasts 2,000 farms and ranches, with acreage totaling just over 380,000.
In a win for transparency in government, the state House of Representatives last week approved a bill that will make it easier for Oregonians to access public records.
The American Legion Baseball Commission went to the city council this week to ask for permission to start fundraising for artificial turf at Bill Gray Stadium at Legion Field in Stewart Park. It’s a project estimated to cost $750,000.
When Plan A, a taxing district to support a fully-staffed countywide library system, crashed and burned, rejected by Douglas County voters in November, few people expected the libraries to survive.
The News-Review’s prep athlete of the week banquet was the official end of the high school sports season, and summer sports have already started in Douglas County as the Dr. Stewart’s Legion baseball team played its first two games this weekend and schools are getting ready to shut their doo…
When the Roseburg Public School District announces they’ll be reducing the number of teacher’s aides, but claims that with a little re-training of its teachers an even better educational system is on the horizon, it’s hard not to see that as the district putting a brave face on one more hit …
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