On the morning of Dec. 7, Sally Beall and Rocky Denwell were sleeping under the overpass that leads to Deer Creek Park in Roseburg.
On the morning of Dec. 7, Sally Beall and Rocky Denwell were sleeping under the overpass that leads to Deer Creek Park in Roseburg.
SUTHERLIN — Amber Coleman is one of the original residents of Hastings Village, a camp in Sutherlin created by the city for houseless people.
When the City of Roseburg’s emergency housing shelter opens in a few months it will officially be named the Gary Leif Navigation Center.
The stories are like something you might expect to see in a Third World country, not here in Roseburg.
OAKLAND — A tiny home can be an effective solution for a veteran without a home.
Tyrone Powell made his court appearance Monday morning.
The building has been purchased, and an operator proposed for a navigation center that will house and provide services for people who are homeless.
With next week’s weather forecast calling for possible rain and snow and overnight lows down to 25 degrees, an overnight warming shelter will reopen in Roseburg beginning Monday evening.
The Roseburg City Council on Monday initially approved tweaking a program in an effort to make it easier for churches and other organizations to provide places for people to sleep in their vehicles when they have nowhere else to go.
Officials with the City of Roseburg are eyeing an office building in a neighborhood on the western edge of downtown to serve as a homeless shelter with services, known as a navigation center.
Under the Bridge ministry, run by the Roseburg Dream Center, is seeking volunteers, supplies and money donations to bring back its 100 Christmas meals-to-go Christmas Eve event.
A year ago, faced with freezing weather coming and no shelter for the hundreds of homeless people in the area to go to stay warm, the Roseburg City Council approved a pilot program allowing people to sleep in their vehicles at approved sites, in what is known as vehicle camping.
Where can people go who are living rough outside in Douglas County? What rights do they have?
City of Roseburg officials are reaching out to churches, social service agencies and the public at large in an effort to provide shelter for homeless individuals this winter.
The city of Roseburg will pay $140,000 to hire a homeless coordinator for two years, in its continuing efforts to provide a shelter and services for the unhoused.
Efforts by the city of Roseburg to open a one-stop homeless shelter hit a roadblock Wednesday when the deadline for submissions from agencies wanting to run the shelter came and went, and not a single group bid for the contract.
The deadline to submit proposals to the city of Roseburg to operate a homeless shelter with connected services, also known as a navigation center, has been pushed back a month, from Sept. 9 to Oct. 13.
The Roseburg Homeless Commission met Wednesday as it moves forward in its efforts to use a $1.5 million state grant to open a homeless shelter with connected services, also known as a navigation center.
Danny Quinn has had it. Jeff Marotz and Doug Harvey — same.
Two weeks ago, when the last heat wave swept through the area, a coalition of local government officials, agency directors and volunteers scrambled to find a location for a cooling center, a place where the homeless could go to get out of the heat. They finally settled on the Roseburg Senior…
Plans for a homeless shelter in Roseburg have taken a step forward with the release of an official request for proposal for someone to get the shelter off the ground, run it and help generate revenue to pay for its continued operation.
Wanted: A nonprofit organization willing to run a homeless shelter in Roseburg. Similar past experience highly desired.
City Manager Nikki Messenger has disbanded a committee of homeless advocates and service providers that was created just last month to help provide food, water and other emergency provisions to the hundreds of homeless individuals in the area.
Roseburg police officers joined a city work crew Wednesday to clear out a homeless encampment at Deer Creek Park, the second such sweep of a homeless encampment in less than a week.
They started by hand Friday morning, a crew of about a half dozen City of Roseburg workers and police, as they dismantled a wooden structure that was behind the baseball fields and along the river at Gaddis Park.
Word has spread that they’re coming, the cleanup of scores of homeless encampments that have proliferated in Roseburg parks, along riverbanks and under bridges.
Roseburg firefighters extinguished what is believed to be an unattended fire from one of several homeless camps along the South Umpqua River below Gaddis Park on Wednesday evening.
Jeff Marotz’s pet Chihuahua Tyson may only be about the size of a football, but he’s a pretty good watchdog when it comes to guarding the 34-foot RV the two of them call home. So when Tyson started growling and barking in the early morning hours of April 14, Marotz figured something was up.
The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that will provide $1.5 million in funding for an emergency shelter in Roseburg.
For Danny Quinn, it started with one simple goal: help clean up Gaddis Park.
When President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package on March 11, one item in it that many people focused on was the $1,400 stimulus payments that were part of the legislation. Money started appearing in people’s bank accounts just a few days later, and within the wee…
Spring is on the horizon, which likely means the start of outdoor activities, including youth sports. And that, city officials said, means it is time to start thinking about what to do with the large number of homeless people living in campers and tents in and around public areas, including parks.
A Douglas County agency is a candidate to receive millions of dollars in grant money to buy a hotel here and turn it into a shelter for the unhoused. The question is: which agency is it?
SUTHERLIN — It’s something most of us take for granted, but for Kenneth Hamilton, the hot shower he took Wednesday afternoon in the mobile trailer set up at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sutherlin not only got him clean but lifted his spirits.
