Caddock Electronics in Glide was fined $7,000 for improper disposal of hazardous waste by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
GLIDE — When Barbara and Jay Hansen moved to Glide more than 10 years ago, they both dove headfirst into their new community. And on Saturday night, they were both recognized for their contributions to the area.
Protections for two Douglas County areas received the nod from the U.S. House of Representatives this week.
The following students are on the Glide Middle School honor roll for the second quarter of the 2018-19 school year.
Below students have achieved honor roll at Glide High School for the 2nd quarter of 2018-2019 school year.
Last week, students of Glide High School’s Agricultural Mechanics program started class by loading steel trailer ramps, which they had built for Fabform Industries, Inc., for transport.
GLIDE — A movement to block the reopening of a rock quarry east of Glide gathered steam Monday, as about 40 people gathered at the Glide Community Center. The group says it’s ready for a fight.
The potential reopening of a rock quarry east of Glide will be the subject of a community meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Glide Community Center, 20062 North Umpqua Highway.
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Glide Rural Fire Protection District chose two firefighters for their 2018 Volunteers of the Year award: David Reda and Corin Kelly.
GLIDE — April Miller leaned against a black SUV, her sister Amber Gaddy standing at her side, near a scarred oak tree at 2412 Little River Road on Saturday afternoon.
GLIDE — J.P. Wilson of Glide had been hearing sermons in church about the importance of finding a spiritual mission. So he’d been thinking and praying a lot about that, when one night at 1:30 in the morning he ran across an online show featuring Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” fame.
GLIDE — Hundreds turned out Saturday to a community carnival at the Glide Fire Station, the great turnout driven by sunny weather. Organizers were hopeful this year’s carnival would raise even more donations to help hungry people in the community than previous year’s events.
Rare and unusual plants will be the focus of this year’s Glide Wildflower Show on Saturday and Sunday at the Glide Community Center.
IDLEYLD PARK — On the outside, the IdleYld Lodge looked like a rustic, sleepy bed-and-breakfast, the kind of place where guests might wake up to home-baked muffins and a cup of coffee before setting out on a hike or day of fishing on the North Umpqua River.
Volunteers who help raise money for schools and organize the Glide Community Club were named as Glide First Citizens for 2018.
Glide’s First Citizens of 2018 will be honored at a celebration in March.
GLIDE — About 40 Boy Scouts, Venture scouts and Glide community members filled and delivered boxes of food this weekend for the 33rd annual Boy Scout Troop 112 Glide Food Basket Program.
It’s a long and winding trek through gravel and dirt roads on Forest Service and Seneca Jones timberlands.
GLIDE — Not only are members of the Glide Volunteer Fire Department raising money this weekend for equipment, they are also seeking volunteers.
The Glide transfer station is open, and the county has no plans to close it.
GLIDE — Law enforcement officers from around Oregon have converged on the Glide middle and high schools this week to help the district make the campuses more secure and safe for the students and faculty.
GLIDE — Vic Hadley of Eugene has been coming to the North Umpqua Fall Fly Tying Festival since it started nine years ago and plans to keep coming back.
GLIDE — About 200 people attended a community meeting in Glide on Tuesday night to listen to fire officials talk about the Umpqua North Complex fires, and to give residents of the area a chance to ask questions about the progress, evacuations, road closures and other topics.
GLIDE — Lila Ferguson of Glide is right on target.
GLIDE — Father’s Day on the Singleton Ranch near Glide is pretty much like any other day — or maybe it’s just that every day is like Father’s Day on the ranch.
GLIDE — With names like snow queen, fairy slipper, prince’s pine and buttercup, a guided tour along the North Umpqua Trail east of Glide is like stepping into a fairy tale.
People can view hundreds of fresh wildflowers from across Oregon at the Glide Wildflower Show this Saturday and Sunday.
Not everyone has the time or physical ability to hike to distant fields to find many of Oregon’s native wildflowers. For them, there’s the Glide Wildflower Show.
Now is the time for people to get involved in helping local government agencies plan how they will spend money for the coming year.
GLIDE — Glide middle school and high school students got a lesson in basketball and life Monday afternoon.
GLIDE — After an hour of clever introductions, Dianne Muscarello, the master of ceremonies at the Glide First Citizen Celebration on Saturday, was tongue-tied when she received an award as one of two Glide First Citizens.
IDLEYLD PARK — Highway 138 east of Idleyld Park was opened to both lanes of traffic this morning, after a slide sent some massive rocks onto the roadway early Thursday morning, completely closing the highway.
IDLEYLD PARK — Students from five Douglas County Schools spent the day in a different kind of classroom Wednesday.
A Glide man intercepted a potential burglary after his dogs alerted him of an intruder around 9:20 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
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In July, president-elect Donald Trump declared via Twitter that home ownership rates have been their lowest in 51 years. He wasn’t wrong.
GLIDE — Gally Rust of Glide has been through a lot in her 19 years, and it just doesn’t seem to get any easier.
