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The News-Review is a five-day-a-week community newspaper published in Roseburg, Oregon, United States. The circulation area covers most of Douglas County including Canyonville , Glide , Myrtle Creek , Oakland , Roseburg, Sutherlin , and Winston .
Douglas County, Oregon. Douglas County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 111,201. [1] The county seat is Roseburg. [2] The county is named after Stephen A. Douglas, an American politician who supported Oregon statehood.
The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. [2] This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman, launched in Oregon City in March 1851. [2]
Woman disappeared from motel with mattress soaked in blood. Marion Eugene Carl. Roseburg. 1998-06-28. WWII fighter ace and record-setting test pilot shot and killed at his home by burglar. Murder of Brooke Wilberger. Corvallis. 2004-05-25. LDS college student from BYU murdered while visiting Oregon.
The Douglas County Library System was established in 1953, based in Roseburg and operating eight branches across the county. Two new libraries were built for Winston and Riddle in the 1960s, and in 1994, a new main branch was opened in Roseburg. [1] The system was funded by the county government, which was heavily reliant on declining sales ...
History. Originally established in 2002 as the North County News, the name was changed to the Douglas County News when the paper was purchased by publisher Becky Holm in 2008. With this transition, the paper went county-wide from a more geocentric circulation. The last issue was published on December 30, 2015.
ZIP code. 97471. Area codes. 458 and 541. FIPS code. 41-43650. Lookingglass is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the Lookingglass Valley of Douglas County, Oregon, United States, about 9 miles (14 km) southwest of Roseburg. [2] As of the 2010 census it had a population of 855. [4] Lookingglass is considered a suburb of ...
By 1944, KRNR (for Roseburg's News-Review) was broadcasting with 250 watts of power. [5] In 1960, the News Review Company placed the station up for sale and on March 1, 1961, it was acquired by Douglas County Tricasters, Inc. [6] In 1963, the station received a construction permit to upgrade its daytime signal strength to 1,000 watts while ...