March 30, 2026

Good morning Douglas County! Here are today's updates live from the Roseburg Receiver Communications Center.

A drug investigation in Douglas County ended Friday night with three arrests and the seizure of large amounts of methamphetamine, along with smaller quantities of other drugs and cash, according to the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team.

Investigators said the case centered on James Teel, 57, of Camas Valley, who was suspected of distributing methamphetamine in Douglas County. During the investigation, detectives learned Teel had allegedly carried out multiple drug-related transactions in the Ten Mile area.

On March 27, 2026, DINT detectives watched Teel as he left his residence and later contacted him in the 9000 block of Highway 42. Authorities said Teel tried to flee after detectives identified themselves and told him to stop, but investigators blocked his exit and took him into custody without further incident.

A Douglas County Sheriff’s Office K-9, Trapper, was then deployed and alerted detectives to the presence of controlled substances in the vehicle, according to DINT.

Search warrants were later carried out on both Teel’s vehicle and his residence in the 12000 block of Highway 42 in Camas Valley. Investigators said they found evidence tied to methamphetamine distribution, as well as additional drugs and a large amount of cash.

According to DINT, the investigation led to the seizure of:

• About 21.8 pounds of methamphetamine
• 12 grams of cocaine
• 18 grams of fentanyl
• Two oxycodone pills
• Bulk U.S. currency

Three people were arrested and lodged at the Douglas County Jail:

• James Teel, 57 - Unlawful Manufacture of Methamphetamine, Unlawful Delivery of Methamphetamine, Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine
• Gina Cotton, 58 - Unlawful Manufacture of Methamphetamine, Unlawful Delivery of Methamphetamine, Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine, Unlawful Possession of Cocaine, Unlawful Possession of a Schedule II Controlled Substance
• Stephanie Wilson, 44 - Conspiracy to Possess and Deliver Methamphetamine

DINT said the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office assisted with the investigation.

The Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team is a multi-agency task force made up of members from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Roseburg Police Department, Oregon State Police, Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, and the Bureau of Land Management. The team is supported by the Oregon-Idaho HIDTA program and the Douglas County Board of Commissioners.

All images courtesy of Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team (DINT)

Rockhounds, collectors and curious families will have a chance to dig into the region’s geology when the Umpqua Gem Show returns to Roseburg on May 2-3 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. The 54th annual show is presented by the Umpqua Gem & Mineral Club and will be held in Douglas Hall at 2110 SW Frear St.

According to the event website, this year’s show will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 2, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 3. Organizers describe it as a family-friendly event featuring 29 rock and gem vendors, along with displays, demonstrations, fluorescing rocks, raffles, a silent auction and activities for kids, including rock hunts.

The club’s website says visitors can expect aisles filled with rocks, minerals, fossils, crystals, jewelry and lapidary art from vendors and collectors across the region. It also highlights Oregon materials such as agates, jaspers, obsidian and petrified wood, alongside hand-crafted pieces and specialty mineral finds.

Among the attention-grabbing local finds promoted for the show is Douglas County carnelian, known for its rich iron color, glowing translucency and, in some pieces, crystal-lined centers formed in ancient volcanic pockets.

Vendor listings on the club’s website show a mix of businesses and makers from Roseburg, Winston, Oakland, Grants Pass, Medford, Jacksonville, Klamath Falls, Reedsport and beyond, underscoring the show’s draw for both local collectors and regional exhibitors.

The event is geared toward kids, families and gem and mineral collectors alike, with organizers encouraging visitors to come learn something new while exploring the wide range of specimens and displays on hand.

The Roseburg Receiver is taking a major step forward this spring with its expansion to local radio.

Beginning sometime in April, The Roseburg Receiver Morning Scoop will air every weekday morning on 90.5 KQUA, with a rebroadcast on 99.7 KQUA-LP Community Radio. Listeners will be able to tune in in their cars or online at kqua.org. The Roseburg Receiver will continue to deliver the morning scoop via email, on the website, and its Facebook group.

The move marks more than just a new platform. It is the beginning of a broader partnership aimed at expanding local access to community information across Douglas County.

Through the collaboration, The Roseburg Receiver hopes to bring its weekday Morning Scoop to radio listeners while also building toward future conversations and programming focused on the community, local news, public safety, public awareness, and what is happening across Douglas County.

The effort is also being developed in collaboration with The Roseburg Plug, as both outlets work together to create additional local programming and community-centered content.

What began as a growing local news and information platform online is continuing to expand - into the community and now onto the radio.

More details, including the official start date and airtime for Morning Scoop, will be announced soon.

For now, here’s what listeners can expect:

• The Roseburg Receiver Morning Scoop
• Every weekday morning on 90.5 KQUA
• Rebroadcast on 99.7 KQUA-LP
• Available in your car or online at kqua.org
• Launching in April

Thank you to everyone who has supported The Roseburg Receiver. This partnership represents an exciting next step, and more information will be shared soon.

Roseburg Public Library will welcome magician Seth Howard for two free performances on Thursday, April 9, offering one program focused on adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities and another family-friendly evening show open to the public.

The events will be held at the library, 1409 N.E. Diamond Lake Blvd.

The first performance is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. and is designed for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Caregivers are also invited to attend. That event is being supported through Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities, a grant initiative from the American Library Association in collaboration with the Association for Rural and Small Libraries.

A second performance will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be open to the public as a family-friendly magic show. That program is being made possible by the Friends of the Roseburg Public Library.

Howard, owner of The Magic Shop & More in Astoria, has spent 20 years entertaining audiences across the Pacific Northwest. His performances feature magic and mind-reading.

More information is available by contacting library staff at 541-492-7050 or library@roseburgor.gov.

Light showers are expected to begin the work week in the Umpqua Valley with more rain coming later in the week.

Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Medford told News Radio 93-9 FM and 1240 KQEN that highs on Monday and Tuesday will be in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees. A big front is forecast to move into the region on Wednesday bringing lots of rain with amounts of over one inch possible. Snow levels will drop to 2,800 feet early Thursday with possible frost on Thursday night.

Forecasters said a new weather system starting Friday will bring sunshine and above normal temperatures with highs of around 70 degrees possible for the weekend.

The Roseburg City Council will hold a special meeting Monday night at 6:00 p.m.

Mayor Larry Rich will lead a discussion about recruiting a new city manager. That comes following the announcement that City Manager Nikki Messenger plans to retire at the end of June.

No public participation is scheduled for the meeting. It will be held in the city council chambers on Southeast Douglas Avenue. The meeting can be seen on the city’s Facebook place or viewed later at https://roseburgor.gov/

Forest Bridges has submitted an alternative management proposal for western Oregon Bureau of Land Management lands.

A Forest Bridges release said more than ten years of collaboration between conservation, environmental, timber, Tribal, governmental and public interests has produced nearly 500 pages of scientific deliberation and Active Conservation Management proposals forming the alternative management plan delivered to BLM officials on March 22nd.

This is in response to the BLM’s February Notice of Intent to revise the 2016 resource management plans for approximately 2.46 million acres of BLM-administered western Oregon public lands. These include BLM O&C lands and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.

The NOI states that the BLM’s primary goal is to increase sustained-yield timber harvest to nearly 1.1 billion board feet – the average from 1960 to 1989. After significantly dropping in the 1990’s, harvest volumes on these BLM lands have ranged from 45 to 275 million board feet since 2020.

Forest Bridges co-founder and board member Rick Sohn said, “Although the BLM’s stated primary purpose is timber harvest, returning to annual harvest levels in excess of a billion board feet is just too high to sustain”. Sohn said, “We stood committed to submitting an Alternative based on our collaborative’s Active Conservation Management Principles of Agreement and strategies”.

Forest Bridges Treasurer Denise Barrett said, “Our proposed Alternative estimates an annual harvest level of around 675 million board feet annually”. Barrett said, “This is early three times what the BLM harvested and would be achieved via a 30-year Active Conservation Management program in dry, moist and transitional – mixed dry-moist, BLM forests, which is then repeated to address forest conditions out of alignment with the pre-European contact Indigenous period”.

Forest Bridges President Elin Miller said, “Its time the divisive discord ends, and all of us in conservation, timber, Tribes, community and government come together to find common ground in resolving the devastating ecological impacts to our forests”. Miller said, “And with our Alternative we will achieve that, boost rural economies and protects the health of all Oregonians”.

Read Forest Bridges full proposal for management of western Oregon BLM lands at: https://www.forestbridges.org/news

Douglas Electric Cooperative will have its annual meeting this Saturday, April 4th.

It will take place in the Community Conference Hall at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Registration and a social time will begin at 9:00 a.m. with the business meeting starting at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m.

Members who plan to attend should RSVP by email at: erika.sullivan@dec.coop, or call 673-6616, extension 224.

For more information about the Douglas Electric Cooperative, go to: https://www.dec.coop/

The Revolutionists opens onstage at Umpqua Actors Community Theatre on Thursday night.

The production is described as a bold, clever, comedic, and poignant play set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. It opens with an unlikely meeting between four real and fictional women: a playwright, an assassin, a Hairian rebel and Queen Marie Antoinette. Despite their wildly different backgrounds, they find unexpected common group in their shared pursuit of justice, truth and lasting impact.

Performances are on Thursday through Saturday nights at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. through April 19th. Tickets are $17 for adults. The production contains strong language and mature themes and is not intended for audiences under age 15. To purchase tickets, go to: https://www.uact-theatre.com/ or call the UACT box office weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.:

Limited Time Events

• In Studio Classes @ Create & Sip Studio | January 8 - May 17th | Every Week on Wed - Sun
• ART AS RECORD: MINIDOKA + 4 Add'l Exhibits feat. Japanese Artists @​ Umpqua Valley Arts | March 20 - May 22nd | 10 AM - 6 PM | Link
• The Revolutionists @ Umpqua Actors Community Theatre (UACT) | April 3-5, 9-12, 16-19 | 7 PM | Link
• Roseburg Woodturners Guild Show | Mindpower Gallery - 417 Fir Ave in Reedsport | April 3 - May 2nd | 10 AM - 5 PM | Link

Monday, March 30th

• DJ Trivia Night @ Workman's Bar & Smokehouse | 7PM
• Open Mic Night @ Little Brothers Pub | 6 - 8 PM
• Celebrate Recovery | Westside Christian Church | Dinner at 5:30, Large group at 6:30.
• Monday Night Auxiliary Bingo | Winston VFW | 4:30 PM | must have papers by 5:30, $17 for all games.

Tuesday, March 31st

• Bingo @ Roseburg Elks Lodge #326 | 6:30 PM
• DJ Bingo @ Workman's Bar and Smokehouse | 6 PM
• DJ Trivia @ Urban NY Pizza & Grill | 7 PM
• Free Line Dancing Lessons - Elements Lounge @ Seven Feathers Casino Resort | Every week on Tuesday | 7 - 9 PM | Link
• Open Mic Night @ Kodiak Bar & Grill | Every week on Tuesday @ 6 - 8 PM
• Tuesdays! Free Line Dancing Lessons at Elements Lounge in Seven Feathers Casino Resort | 7 - 9 PM | Link
• Celebrate Recovery | Winston Assembly of God | Dinner at 5:30, Large group at 6:30.
• Jazz Jam @ North Forty Beer Company | 5 - 7:30 PM | Link

Wednesday, April 1st

• DJ Trivia @ Backside Brewing Co. | 6 - 7:30 PM
• Karaoke/Open Mic Night @ Idle Hour Tavern | 9 PM - 12:30 AM
• Open Mic at Brix | Every Wednesday | 6 - 8 PM
• Trivia Night @​ Lookingglass Brewery | 6 - 9 PM
• Trivia Night @​ Little Brothers Pub | 6 PM
• Bingo @ Roseburg Senior Center | (Every Wed and Fri) - Doors Open at 5 PM, starts at 6:30PM. Food available. Ages 7+. $1 for non-members.
• Celebrate Recovery | Redeemers (Old movie theater) | Dinner at 5:30, Large group at 6:30.
• Wednesday Night Karaoke with Mr. Michael | Winston VFW | 5 - 9 PM| 21+
• Group Meet - Knitting of Any Kind | Studio Arts Connection (1350 NE Stephens, Roseburg) | 1 - 3:30 PM | Knitting, crochet, hand quilting felting spinning, etc
• Stand-Up Comedy w/ Juan Denmark, feat. Nathaniel Greene @ The Rosebud Theatre | 6 - 8:30 PM | Link

Thursday, April 2nd

• DJ Trivia @ North Forty Beer Company | 7 - 8:30 PM
• Kick Up the Dust - Line Dancing Lessons @ Workman's Bar & Smokehouse | 7 - 8 PM
• Karaoke Night at Kodiak | Every Thursday and Saturday | 8 PM
• DJ Bingo @ Brix Bar & Grill | 7 - 9 PM |
• Thirsty Thursday Cornhole Night @ Lookingglass Brewery | Every week on Thursday | 6 - 8 PM | Link

Friday, April 3rd

• Friday Pizzas! @ Reustle-Prayer Rock Vineyards | 12 - 4PM
• Karaoke Night @ Winchester Pub & Grill | 8 - 11 PM
• Karaoke Night @ Workman's Bar and Smokehouse | 9 PM - 12 AM
• Bingo @ Roseburg Senior Center | (Every Wed and Fri) - Doors Open at 5 PM, starts at 6:30PM. Food available. Ages 7+. $1 for non-members.
• Karaoke Night at Kodiak | Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday | 8 PM
• Friday Night Live Music | Winston VFW
• Group Meet - Open Painting Watercolor and Small Acrylic | Studio Arts Connection (1350 NE Stephens, Roseburg) | 1 - 3:30 PM

Saturday, April 4th

• Umpqua Valley Farmers Market | 9AM - 1PM | SE Jackson St | Link
• Karaoke Night @​ Brix Bar & Grill | (Every Saturday) @ 7 - 10PM
• Karaoke Night @ Lookingglass Brewery | 6 - 8PM | Link
• Karaoke Night at Kodiak | Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday | 8 PM
• Saturday Night Karaoke with DJ Dan | Winston VFW | 5 - 9 PM | 21+
• Adult Easter Egg Hunt @ Backside Brewing Co. | 12 PM | Link
• Live Music: Homemade Jam Duo @ Spire Mountain Cellars | 1 - 4 PM | Link
• Live Music: The Hoppers Easter Concert @ The Chapel | 4 PM | Link
• Live Music: Wild at Heart @ North Forty Beer Company | 6 - 8 PM | Link
• White Pinot Noir Release @ Reustle-Prayer Rock Vineyards | 12 AM - 6 PM | Link
• Annual Easter Egg Hunt | West Intermediate School - 531 N Comstock Ave in Sutherlin | Ages 12 and Under | 1 PM
• Easter Egg Hunt | Winston Community Park - 590 SE Thomson Ave | Ages Birth to 5th Grade| 11:30 AM
• 2nd Annual Easter Egg Drop | Fir Grove Park in Roseburg | 9 AM | Ages 10 and under only
• Live Music: The Hoppers Easter Concert @​ The Chapel | 4 PM. Dinner at 6 PM | Link

Sunday, April 5th

• DJ Trivia Night @ Brix Bar and Grill | Every Sunday | 6 - 8 PM
• Riddle Fire District 76th Annual Easter Egg Hunt | Riddle Junior/Senior High Football Field | 1 PM
• 72nd Annual Easter Egg Hunt | Reedsport Community Charter School Football Field | 1:30 PM
• Easter Sunrise Service and Breakfast | 7 am | Easter Services at 8:30 AM and 11 AM | Westside Christian Church - 2712 W Harvard Ave
• Easter Egg Hunt after 2nd service (~12 PM) | Westside Christian Church - 2712 W Harvard Ave

• We now have 19,603 Facebook group members!! Thank you all so much for being here!
• There is now an opportunity to advertise your local business with The Roseburg Receiver! If your company is interested, please email info@theroseburgreceiver.com. Your ad will be featured in The Roseburg Scoop emails, videos, website, and much more.
• Project Skywatch is still underway to get deployed in the Spring; however, more funding is still required. To donate, become a business sponsor, or read more information of Project Skywatch, visit https://www.theroseburgreceiver.com/project-skywatch/
• Morning Scoop Launching On KQUA - Starting in April, listeners will be able to catch the Morning Scoop on 90.5 KQUA, with a rebroadcast on 99.7 KQUA-LP and online at KQUA. Click here for more information.

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That is the scoop for this Monday morning. Have a great day!

- The Roseburg Receiver Team