November 24, 2025 3:30 a.m. 

Downtown Roseburg is getting decked out for the holidays.

A city release said last week their facilities maintenance team installed a Christmas wreath and colored string lights around the top of Roseburg City Hall and the Public Safety Center. Strands of white lights now illuminate the front window of city hall’s lobby.

Downtown businesses are also decorating before “Shop Small Saturday”, this coming Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

On Sunday, City Councilor Zack Weiss, in partnership with an emerging nonprofit, Destination Downtown Roseburg, installed about 30 holiday wreaths throughout downtown. Weiss and members of Garden Valley Church restrung the wreaths.

Weiss ordered 3,000 commercial-grade lights that will arrive in time to be put up on Southeast Jackson Street on Sunday, before the county’s tree lighting ceremony. The city is funding the lighting purchase after the council approved spending $5,000 on downtown lights or other equipment.

Local businesses are loaning equipment to enable Weiss and volunteers to install 6,000 feet of string lights in trees. Volunteers who want to help can email Weiss at: zweiss@roseburgor.gov or show up at the parking lot at the corner of Jackson Street and Southeast Douglas Avenue next Sunday at 7:00 a.m.

Destination Downtown Roseburg is accepting donations to buy lights that can be used next year and beyond to expand the holiday lights to Southeast Main Street, and extend the lights north up Jackson Street and past the Roseburg Public Library on Northeast Diamond Lake Boulevard.