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 …
Three men are stabbed, and two of them killed, for standing up to a white supremacist in Portland.
It’s no secret that Douglas County residents aren’t very healthy people, as a whole. We weigh too much, eat too poorly, move around too little, smoke too much.
Every four years, the Oregon School Activities Association goes through a process called classification and districting, where a committee looks at how high schools around the state compare to each other and what sports leagues and levels the schools should participate in.
When the lights go out and the doors close at the Roseburg library today, those actions will feel uncomfortably metaphoric. The light of knowledge being snuffed. The doors granting every county resident access to that knowledge shut and barred.
The News-Review frequently runs editorials by other newspapers, in addition to our own, on our opinion pages. Sometimes the views expressed by the editors at other newspapers accord with our own. Other times, though, it seems we’re viewing the world through very different lenses.
A quarter century ago, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians started a bingo hall in Canyonville.
Imagine turning a blind child’s seeing-eye dog away at the school house door.
Umpqua Community College needs more funding. So it’s understandable that UCC recently announced a modest tuition hike would start this summer.
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