Glide News

A Jan. 14 trial date was set this morning for David Scott Robertson of Roseburg, who is accused of drug, theft, burglary and firearm charges in Douglas County Circuit Court.

Most of us don't equate rain and mud with kids in a candy store . But then most of us aren't archaeologists up to our elbows in artifacts from centuries ago at a Douglas County dig where each find linking the site to evidence of the earliest residents of the Umpqua Basin is met with unbridled glee.

People who drive the North Umpqua Highway between Roseburg and Glide on a daily basis deserve to be a little cranky.

Boy Scout Troop No. 112 is holding the 25th annual communitywide holiday food and gift basket program in the North Umpqua area.

These logs are the highlights of initial emergency calls and reports to the Douglas County Dispatch Center.

Hiking guides will take groups through the Cavitt Creek Falls and Upper Cavitt Creek Timber Sale on Saturday.

These logs are the highlights of initial emergency calls and reports to the Douglas County Dispatch Center.

Even after 30 years in his field, Roseburg Fire Chief Jack Cooley says he's still enthusiastic about firefighting.

Glide High School students got a chance to learn a lot about Veterans Tuesday, at a special 'Living History Day' at the school.

The cover story in today's Senior Times tells about the important work volunteers are doing for the Senior Health Insurance Assistance program.

The necessary evil of road construction affects local drivers daily. Several Glide drivers, however, have another annoyance to add to the construction woes - a shower of window chips and cracks.

Ted Swagerty of Roseburg leaves today for Merida, Mexico, to represent Douglas County at the Ninth World Wilderness Congress.

A jury has awarded about $41,000 in damages to a homeless man who was shot by an Oregon State University fraternity member from Glide in 2006.

Cindy M. Cox of Glide recently voluntarily surrendered her nursing assistant certificate, according to an Oregon Board of Nursing news release.

The Glide area will have a new solid waste collection service. The county commissioners have approved an agreement with Sutherlin Sanitation to take over the solid waste collection and recycling from Glide Disposal.

People can purchase Christmas tree permits from any office on the Umpqua National Forest from Nov.

Two old bridge supports stand along the North Umpqua River near Susan Creek. The Bureau of Land Management intends to build a foot bridge across the river at this location.

Art Allen and I have been travelling around the U.S. and Europe talking about mapping surface currents with HF RadarA A and how it is being used to improve the Coast Guard's Search And Rescue planning.A At dinner, the conversation inevitably turns to hiking up mountains.

Harry D. Young, 93, of Glide, Oregon passed away, peacefully, in the early hours of October 2nd, in Roseburg, OR.

Hardscrabble beginnings can put backbone into people as well as places. So as the Wolf Creek Job Corps observes 45 years of operations at its Glide campus, it's worth remembering that the site's history stretches back further yet - to another era of economic turmoil.