This is the first of a six-part series exploring the various programs, classes and professional advice available to area residents from Oregon State University Extension Service in Douglas County. For more information, call 541-672-4461, go online at www.extension.oregonstate.edu/douglas or visit the Extension office at 1134 S.E. Douglas Ave., Roseburg.
This is the first of a six-part series exploring the various programs, classes and professional advice available to area residents from Oregon State University Extension Service in Douglas County. For more information, call 541-672-4461, go online at www.extension.oregonstate.edu/douglas or visit the Extension office at 1134 S.E. Douglas Ave., Roseburg.
MYRTLE CREEK — Jamiee Phillips, and her husband, Nathan, were born and raised in Douglas County. After meeting each other in 2019 through mutual friends, they were married just over two years later, and now own their own business in the town where Nathan grew up.
MYRTLE CREEK — Deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office jailed four people Friday night after they were found living in an abandoned house northeast of Myrtle Creek.
MYRTLE CREEK — The River United Pentecostal Church at 194 Old Pacific Highway in Myrtle Creek will provide a warming center Sunday night. It will be open from 7:30 p.m. through 7:30 a.m. on Monday.
MYRTLE CREEK — Officers with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office were unable to locate a man who fled a traffic stop Saturday morning in the Myrtle Creek area near Bills Road.
MYRTLE CREEK — Umpqua Valley Community Hospital stood in Myrtle Creek as a beacon of health from 1953 until 1994. Now, the building is being gutted of lead and asbestos before the city will have the building torn down for being hazardous and derelict.
TRI CITY — Twenty-four steel posts were damaged early Wednesday morning on Interstate 5 near Tri City, after a commercial motor vehicle jackknifed.
MYRTLE CREEK — Detectives with the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team arrested a man and charged him with multiple drug crimes.
MYRTLE CREEK — Kiya Speckman had recently gotten her driver’s license and was bragging to her brother about the Subaru Turbo WRX manual that she was going to have before him. At the time she was 16, and set to receive settlement money from an auto accident she had suffered earlier in the year.
MYRTLE CREEK — The Myrtle Creek Grange hosted the first night of its two-day “Merry Little Christmas” event in Myrtle Creek on Thursday.
For the past 28 years the D.R. Johnson Timber Truckers Light Parade has dazzled and delighted spectators, this year, number 29, should be no different as the cities of Myrtle Creek, Riddle, and Tri-City all prepare for this year’s parade on Dec. 10 beginning at the D.R. Johnson lumber yard a…
MYRTLE CREEK — The Myrtle Creek Elks Lodge hosted a Veterans Stand Down event Wednesday, bringing together multiple organizations to help assist veterans in need within the community.
Haunted houses are beginning to open as the Halloween season gets into full swing, and scare-seekers across Douglas County will be excited about the upcoming events.
What happens when you put horror, puppets, comedy, rock ‘n’ roll themed musical performances and science fiction together? For an Ashland-based troupe, it’s something called Puppeteers for Fears.
MYRTLE CREEK — A Silent Disco event Saturday in Millsite Park raised $670 for the Myrtle Creek Library.
TRI CITY — Students in the consumer science class at South Umpqua High School filled Angelia Freeman’s car with neck pillows Monday morning.
MYRTLE CREEK — A group celebrating milestone birthdays gathered at the Painted Lady in Myrtle Creek on Thursday to share friendship and celebrate their years with finger sandwiches and chocolate-covered tangerines.
The Myrtle Creek Elks Lodge is offering a unique opportunity to try some unique twists on a traditional cocktail and raise money for children in our area with the first Battle of the Best Bloody Mary Challenge.
MYRTLE CREEK — There were games, food and tons of fun activities for all ages Friday at the Myrtle Creek Summer Festival, including a Sidewalk Chalk Contest for children ages 5-17.
MYRTLE CREEK — LJ’s BBQ is one of the most recent new businesses to be part of the explosion of new growth and development in Myrtle Creek. They are located on the upstairs level of the Taphouse on Main Street.
MYRTLE CREEK — They say a tiger cannot change its stripes, but the same is not true for the painted lines on local city streets.
MYRTLE CREEK — Nestled in the mountains, surrounded by giant fir trees, and bordered by the South Umpqua River, the close-knit community of Myrtle Creek gathered together in celebration of summer on Thursday.
After 12 days of extreme weather, from rain to 100 degrees of direct sunlight, Tom Criss finally came down from the roof of a semi-trailer Tuesday afternoon.
One week in and Tom Criss is still upbeat on top of the semitrailer outside the Myrtle Creek Grocery Outlet.
MYRTLE CREEK — After outgrowing her rented booth space, Nicole Dodson looked to have a larger impact on the community by opening the Body Bar at a new location in Myrtle Creek.
Preliminary results of the May 17 elections show Douglas County voters opposing school bonds in Roseburg, South Umpqua and Days Creek.
South Umpqua School District has made several upgrades to its various buildings in recent years, but for the last remaining projects, it’s appealing to the voters to approve a nearly $21 million bond.
Five years ago the Douglas County Library System closed, leaving a hole in the services available to our communities. Thanks to the efforts of dedicated individuals and community volunteers, nine branch libraries reopened within a year of the county system’s closure.
This is the first of a six-part series exploring the various programs, classes and professional advice available to area residents from Oregon State University Extension Service in Douglas County. For more information, call 541-672-4461, go online at www.extension.oregonstate.edu/douglas or visit the Extension office at 1134 S.E. Douglas Ave., Roseburg.
Music in the Park, Douglas County’s longest-running free music concert series, will kick off its 35th year on July 7. Held at Myrtle Creek’s Millsite Park, concerts will be held 6-8:30 p.m. each Thursday through Aug. 25.
RIDDLE — Isaac Saylor of Glendale has driven his truck in the Memorial D.R. Johnson Timber Truckers Light Parade for the past three years.
On Dec. 13, 1964, a cold spell hit the Pacific Northwest. It was followed by a heavy snow.
An assortment of jolly fun will be on display at the Grand Victorian Theatre when the Christmas Variety Show opens Friday.
All Myrtle Creek residents and businesses are invited to participate in the third annual Myrtle Creek Scarecrow Contest, held through Oct. 30.
Editor’s note: This story was written before the Aug. 25 death of Myrtle Creek City Councilor Henry Stevens.
On Thursday, Tom Criss gripped the metal bars at the end of a fire truck ladder as it lifted the co-owner of the Myrtle Creek Grocery Outlet 13 feet off the ground, up toward the hard, flat top of a semi-trailer.
The Myrtle Creek Summer Festival skipped a beat last year due to the coronavirus. But it is back this summer, celebrating 34 years of sun, fun, music and fireworks, and those involved say they couldn’t be more excited.
