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Holiday Travel AAA Oregon is reporting that an estimated 785,000 Oregonians will be taking to the roads, air and even sea this thanksgiving. Beginning today roadways are expected to be heavy with traffic. They estimate an average of 55.4 million people will travel more than 50 miles from home to […]
Oregon Defeats FAMU The Oregon Ducks Basketball team was in Tallahassee, Florida last night to take on Florida A&M. The Ducks swapped the lead with the cobras 9 times in the first half taking a one point lead into the locker room. The Ducks never trailed in the second half […]
Board Hears Stats on Sex Offenders The Siuslaw School District Board of Directors heard from a retired police detective last week. Dean Lott spent 12-years investigating crimes, 90% of which, he says, involved crimes against children. Those were usually sex crimes. In his letter to the board Lott said Oregon […]
Tough Loss For Beavers Saturday’s OSU loss to the Washington Huskies was disappointing according to Head coach Jonathan Smith. The Beavers went toe to toe with the Huskies with the difference in the game being an errant snap on a punt by the Beaver’s center. That caused a safety and […]
City Council Meets There are several items on this evening’s Florence City Council meetings agenda. One of the items includes the possible approval of $120,000 in managed information technology service costs. According to information provided by city staff to the council the city’s MIT provider StepUp that began services in […]
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Duck Women’s Basketball It wasn’t the easiest of tasks for the Oregon Duck Women’s basketball team last night in the desert, but in the end the Ducks ground down their opponents Grand Canyon university Antelopes. The Antelopes held a brief lead mid-way through the second quarter, but the Ducks took […]
Rite-Aid to Shutter Store As part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing Rite-Aid has begun the process of shutting down what they are calling underperforming stores. One of those stores is here in Florence. Rite-Aid announced that the local store will remain open until November 29th. Large blue bins cover […]
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