Local News, Sports and Everything Florence
Stamp Out Hunger In two days, local letter carriers will be collecting food from local residents as part of their Stamp out Hunger initiative. This year marks the 31st year that the US Postal service has been collecting food. Here in Florence there are more than 500 families that suffer […]
Athlete of the Week The Sports Club, the Siuslaw News and Coast Radio Sports congratulate junior Mapleton Track and field’s Alex Burnett as this week’s athlete of the week. Alex tossed the javelin 125’8” for a first place finish at last week’s McKenzie End of Season tournament which is just […]
Heceta Beach Road Flooding The underlying cause of flooding on Heceta Beach Road near Rhododendron Drive has not been officially noted, but Public Works Director Mike Miller says they believe it was possibly a beaver dam or some restricting dike that gave way. What he did say is that we […]
Siuslaw Track and Field Wesley Nicholls was the top finisher in the 200 meters at the Wally Ciochetti invitational on Friday. Nicholls finished 4th. he place a little higher in the 400 meter race at third. Dylan Jensen and Derrick Vanduch finished 4th and 5th respectively in the 800 meters. […]
Proposed Property Sale At this evening’s Florence City Council Meeting the council will consider a sale of a portion of city property located to the Northwest of the Justice Center on 9th street. The two tax lots make up approximately 1.48 acres. The property has been deemed as surplus property […]
Viking Baseball It was a tough day on the mound for Siuslaw yesterday as they hosted the Sisters Outlaws. In game on the Vikings gave up five runs in one inning and that was all the Outlaws would need – holding the Vikings to just 2 runs. Game two saw […]
Flower Baskets Need No matter what happens, all 140 pole mounted flower baskets on Florence’s main streets will be up and blooming all summer. That’s according to Bettina Hannigan, President and CEO of the Florence Area Chamber of Commerce. “The Chamber pays for those baskets. If we don’t get them […]
Viking Sports The Siuslaw Vikings are scheduled to host the Sisters Outlaws in double-header baseball and softball this afternoon. First pitch for both contests begin at 2 pm and the second game is scheduled to follow soon after the completion of the first. Thugh rain is in the forecast it […]
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