December 30, 2022 11:00 a.m. 

Local residents are invited to witness the Oath of Office ceremony being administered to recently elected or appointed City of Roseburg officials on Tuesday on January 3rd.

City Recorder Amy Sowa will administer the Oath of Office to Mayor Larry Rich who was recently re-elected, newly elected councilors Kylee Rummel, Shelley Briggs Loosely, Ellen Porter and Ruth Smith, and recently appointed councilor David Mohr.

The ceremony will be held at 4:00 p.m.in the Umpqua Room at the Public Safety Center.

Rummel was appointed in May to replace Allision Egger in Ward 1, and Briggs Loosely was appointed in June 2021 to replace Sheila Cox in Ward 2. Porter was elected to Ward 3 while Smith was elected to Ward 4. They replaced councilors Bob Cotterell and Beverly Cole respectively. Those members retired after not seeking re-election this fall.

On December 12, Mohr was appointed to replace Sheri Moothart who resigned in early October. He and the two other new councilors will attend their first city council meeting on January 9th.