The Coquille tribe was generous to Lakeside Fire recently. It’s money that Chief Ted Ross has put to good use. Learn more…

The inevitable fulfillment of Nelson’s 2006 signed promise will likely only be done with the mayor kicking and squealing.

Government transparency, pushed by President Obama as a bi-partisan effort when he was a Senator, and by Governor Palin in Alaska, is two years overdue for Lakeside.

It was part a promise by three current Lakeside board members in 2006 that needs to move forward now that a motion pushed by Councilor Elaine Armstrong has unanimously passed.

Read Lakesideinfo.com’s editorial by clicking headline…

In a surprise move Thursday evening, Suzan Marcy was fired from her city hall duties, effective the next day.

During the regular monthly meeting of the Lakeside city council, Chrysta Swift, the council’s personnel director, made a motion to terminate Marcy from the sewer clerk position at city hall.Click on headline for full March council meeting recap.

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Also, coming soon to Lakesideinfo.com, to the chorus:
“Oh where, oh where has Phil Heley gone, oh where, oh where can he be? …” Go to this site for the tune to sing it by (Warning…it will narrow your browser to fit the free player.)

With an absence from yet another council meeting, does the mysterious Heley fall in the category of missing in inaction? Not only won’t he speak to us, but Phil Heley is also avoiding council and general public scrutiny as well.

Regular council meetings are held in the council chambers at city hall, 7:00P.M, on the second Thursday every month. Tonight’s meeting will follow an executive session that convenes at 6:00 P.M. One agenda item, city not affiliated with lakesideinfo.com., as if you did not already know. Wonder how much that cost us in attorney fees? [...]

Lakeside Mayor Orville Nelson has hired another hand-picked favorite for a Lakeside city job. Nelson said that Cardinal Services would be contacted to provide a part time employee to do maintenance and mow the lawn at the airport. It was done. The choice for the spot: Nelson’s own choice, named at the January meeting. During [...]

Some fifty-five Lakeside residents are delinquent on their sewer bills, owing a collective $15,604. How could this have happened? That question was asked at Monday’s council workshop. Click headline for recap…

Newspapers across America are bathing in red ink, but journalism survives and has the opportunity to thrive through this new medium.

Meanwhile, tonight is Lakeside’s second city council workshop of 2009. The clan will grapple with the new reality of a news source in town and how to handle the free speech rights of one of its outspoken council members.

Since the last council meeting, the mayor has delivered more money to the city attorney to establish the fact Lakesideinfo.com is not part of the city’s operations.Click headline for workshop preview…

An opportnity to involve yourself in the Adopt-a-Soldier program

Lakeside’s wastewater plant employee compensatory time obligations have exploded by over 600% vs. 2006 year ending levels.

Mayor Orville Nelson complained in April 2007 about comp time being excessive at that time as one important reason for hiring mechanic Phil Heley as Wastewater Superintendent.

Nelson hired the inexperienced Heley with reasoning that included the promise of saving the city on comp time cost.

The staggering comp time totals now violate state law and blow past Lakeside’s own rules, exceeding the latter by a whopping 800% of what the city allows.

A few months ago Lakeside got a new sewer facility. And yet there’s still no evidence of the promised DEQ certification that Heley was supposed to be getting as a condition of his re-written job description that helped him land the job. Read the report by clicking on the headline.

What puts us at risk for identity theft?