The Douglas County COVID-19 Response Team reported six new cases Saturday.
Like so many events these days, this year’s Glide Wildflower Show will be a virtual one, with participants taking pictures and uploading them for the online show.
At the North Umpqua Bible Fellowship at 1547 Wild River Drive in Glide, families who were forced to evacuate their homes Tuesday sought refuge in the church parking lot.
The North Umpqua Invitational Pro-Am disc golf tournament teed off on Saturday morning at Whistler’s Bend Park east of Roseburg with a field of close to 100 competitors from all over the Oregon.
A Glide man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly shooting another man in the head during an argument, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The Indigo Pack in eastern Douglas County was one of eight new gray wolf packs in Oregon on Wednesday when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife released its annual wolf report.
An Idleyld Park man has been indicted in Douglas County Circuit Court on a murder charge in connection with the death of a 1-year-old girl on Jan. 9.
Chaise Congleton, a 14-year-old Boy Scout with Troop 112 in Glide, had a tough time deciding what to do for his Eagle Scout project.
Counseling that improves struggling parents’ interactions with young children and expanded Sutherlin library services are among the local projects that will benefit from the most recent round of grants from the Oregon Community Foundation.
Some rural Douglas County residents can’t afford to pay more for garbage disposal, but many are willing to pay extra if it means they can keep their rural transfer stations.
The Glide Fire Station has a new look that will help provide emergency electrical power for the facility and save the department money at the same time.
GLIDE — Three members of a five-man crew felled trees perched precariously close to the edge of an unstable hillside above Little River Road Wednesday.
An amendment that would protect Civilian Conservation Centers like the Wolf Creek Job Corps in Glide passed in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday on a bipartisan 313-109 vote.
Wolf Creek Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center Director Gabe Wishart said Thursday his staff remains mission-focused, despite uncertainty about the program’s future.
The Wolf Creek Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center in Glide trains students, often those who don’t respond well to more traditional schooling or work training, to pass the GED or learn job skills like construction, forest conservation and firefighting.
Kelly Davis knew he couldn’t work in the woods forever after 37 years clearing trees, so he and his wife Marcy Davis opened Beast Burgers in Glide.
After more than 20 years of selling pizza out of trailer, the owners of The Little Pizza Paradise scrapped the trailer and moved the pizza oven into a permanent building across the highway in Glide. The pizza shop is a fulfillment of a decades-old dream for owners Barry and Jacki Hayes.
It started in 1965, as a fundraiser to maintain the Glide Community Center, when one woman gathered 71 specimens in three days along Buckhorn Road and arranged them in vases and 35 people came to the event.
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.
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.
Celebrations
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.
