Glide News

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.

Doug White, co-owner of Flying "W" Alpacas of Sutherlin, pets one of his baby alpacas at his ranch last year.

Public access has been cut off to 155,000 acres of the Umpqua National Forest by twin forest fires than have burned over 10,000 acres combined, complicating fall camping and hunting trips in the area.

As expected, the Boze and Rainbow Creek fires 19 miles northeast of Tiller continued to grow in the hot dry weather Wednesday.

A Glide man was taken to the hospital after his van crashed Tuesday night on North Bank Road.

Dale Wayne Hill has a right to a fair trial. And the public has a right to see that his trial is conducted fairly.

Family and friends continue to search for a 90-year-old Garden Valley man who went missing Monday morning.

I am standing next to a forest fire, waiting. The flames are no bigger than a campfire, something you could shuffle up to and warm your hands on.

New paint for Douglas High School . Old asbestos tiling ripped out at Lincoln Middle School in Oakland .

Volunteers sort captured ducks during the Rotary Duck Race at River Forks Park Saturday.