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Ducks Big-10 Run The Oregon Ducks surged into the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals with a 72-59 victory over Indiana on Thursday, marking their eighth straight win. A 10-0 run to close the first half gave Oregon the lead, and despite multiple Indiana rallies, the Ducks never trailed again. Jackson Shelstad […]
Majority Votes to Remove Book A majority of the Siuslaw School Board voted to ban a graphic novel from shelves in the high school library Wednesday night. The book Flamer, a graphic novel about a young man in the 1990s coming to grips with his sexual identity was challenged by […]
Siuslaw Golf The Siuslaw Viking golf team will be hosting the first tournament of the spring on Wednesday March 19th. 11 boys will be competing this year with Ryan Klampe, Will Johnson, Camden Linton and Micah Blankenship hoping to improve on their previous year’s accomplishments. Klampe is joined by one […]
Plover Nesting Season Beachgoers along the Oregon coast are being reminded—it’s western snowy plover nesting season. From March 15 through September 15, restrictions are in place along 40 miles of shoreline to protect the threatened shorebirds. Officials say visitors should stay on wet sand, avoid roped-off areas, and follow posted […]
Baseball and Softball The high school sports season is in flux with no competition this week but Siuslaw baseball and softball teams are hard at work preparing for the season. Siuslaw Baseball will include some Mapleton players once again as Mapleton doesn’t have enough players to field a team. Coach […]
Executive Order Could Affect Oregon Logging The Trump administration’s recent executive order, entitled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production,” calls on federal land managers to ramp up timber production to protect the country’s national and economic security. Oregon is the top producer of softwood lumber in the country, so the […]
No AOTW Due to the hiatus and distance between basketball and the start of track and field and baseball, there will be no athlete of the week this week. AOTW will return in two weeks following the beginning of baseball on March 18th. the boys and girls will be hosting […]
University District Hospital Up for Sale Since closing PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at University District in December 2023, PeaceHealth has focused on expanding services in Lane County. In March, construction begins on a new inpatient rehabilitation hospital near RiverBend, nearly doubling capacity and introducing the region’s first traumatic brain […]
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