Author: Bob

Council considers community grant awards

Four organizations to recieve $1,000 each The Florence City Council will consider grant awards this evening totaling $4-thousand for four different non-profit groups in the area. Each of the four groups would receive one-thousand-dollars if approved by the Council. The Children’s Repertory of Oregon Workshop… or CROW… would use their […]

Oregon Men, Oregon State Women, advance to Sweet 16s

March Madness continues Number one seed Oregon held on with a furious final five minutes of basketball last night to down St. Joseph’s 69-64 in the second round of the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament.  The Ducks advance to take on number four seed Duke Thursday night in Anaheim, California.  Friday, […]

NW Sports from the AP

AP-NW–SportsMinute/268 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Dillon Brooks scored 25 points and lead the Ducks to 69-64 win over No. 8 seed Saint Joseph’s in the second round last night. Oregon was carrying the banner for the […]

Slide cleanup continuing

Highway 36 to remain closed through at least Monday A slide that blocked Highway 36 two miles west of Triangle Lake last week is still posing problems for crews trying to clean it up. Angela Beers-Sydel – “We have 9 trucks running right now to get the debris out from […]

2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 03/18/2016 09:26 AM AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute/198 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon collected $3.5 million in taxes from recreational marijuana sales in January. The money came from 253 individual payments. There are over 300 medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, so […]