Myrtle Creek News

By Ron Brown A November 6, 2009 A MEDFORD, Ore. - The lore of logging runs deep in the Northwest.

Bids for the long-anticipated Weaver Road extension between Myrtle Creek and Tri City should go out next summer, Robb Paul, Douglas County's public works director told the Board of Commissioners on Wednesday.

HEATHER MORSE/ The News-Review Greg Falk, a Canyonville doctor, speaks to students in the Days Creek High School gym as part of the "Possibilities are Endless" assembly.

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

Title: WITCH'S SECRET WORSHIP Sex witch Robin Fletcher has been secretly visiting a suburban church whose leaders idolise him.

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

A Bend-area man who was behind the wheel of a truck that crashed in September, injuring him and killing his passenger, was arrested Thursday in Douglas County by Oregon State Police on suspicion of Manslaughter in the First Degree and Criminally Negligent Homicide.

Work continues on the Umpqua Community Health Center project at the nonprofit campus in north Roseburg Thursday.

The fall colors are reflected in the still water of the South Umpqua River near Myrtle Creek on Monday afternoon.

It's difficult for South County residents to tap into resources, training and higher education, according to area business and education leaders.

Oscar Flynn of Myrtle Creek stands next to the apple press he has worked to restore over the past several months.

Nearly $45 million has been spent in Douglas County through money provided by the federal stimulus program, according to data released last week by the state of Oregon.

Sisters Kaylee O'Sullivan, 6, left, and Madison, 5, of Canyonville stuff the arms of a scarecrow during the "scarecrow factory" at Mary's Garden in Canyonville on Saturday.

Three individuals who furthered the vision of Umpqua Community College as an institution of hope were inducted into the college's Hall of Fame Tuesday evening.

A woman got caught in a rope on a hot air balloon and suffered a serious shoulder injury and last weekend as weather played havoc with the balloon festival in Myrtle Creek.

Douglas County authorities believe they have recovered the remains of a man missing for almost two months.

Washing dishes in his parents' Figaro's Pizza restaurant certainly wasn't a turnoff for 6-year-old Zach Newman.

A Myrtle Creek woman was cited for not driving in her lane after causing an accident that damaged three vehicles and sent her to the hospital.

Bob Cotterell, a World War II bomber pilot who later served for a dozen years as mayor of Myrtle Creek, died on Monday.

The Weyerhaeuser pole yard can be seen in the foreground, with the closed Bayliner Corp.