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Siuslaw Soccer This Thursday there will be a Siuslaw varsity girls soccer game at Sweet Home. The game is an OSAA Endowment Game so there will be an admission charge of $6 for adults and $4 for students. The Varsity boys game was cancelled due to not enough Sweet Home […]
Viking Football Siuslaw Viking Head Football Coach Sam Johnson says he is excited for the beginning of football season. The players will be participating in team camp all this week and Johnson says the teams are coming together. This year the coaching staff has added Jackson Johnson and Bob Teter […]
New Report of Scam The Lane County Sheriff’s department is warning of a new scam involving persons impersonating Sheriff’s office employees. According to Sergeant Tom Speldrich the scammers are identifying themselves either verbally, by text or by email as employees of the Lane County Sheriff’s Office even going so far […]
Skarlatos Visits Florence 4th district congressional candidate Alek Skarlatos visited Florence yesterday on his latest bid to be the next representative from one of the largest districts in Oregon. Skarlatos met with supporters and potential supporters at ICM Restaurant. He spoke with Coast Radio News prior to his luncheon. He […]
Eugene Emeralds starting pitcher Mason Black was pummeled in his appearance last night against the Hillsboro Hops. Black pitched 3 and a third innings giving up 8 runs on 9 hits on the Hops way to a victory. The Hops would add 2 more runs for the 10-1 victory. The […]
COVID-19 Numbers COVID-19 continues to generate cases for the 97439 zip code. 31 new cases were reported by the Oregon Health Authority for an all time total of 1930 cases for the Florence Area. The OHA is also reporting that the BA-4 and BA-5 variants of the virus are the […]
Ems The Eugene Emeralds lost a full game lead in the Norwest League standings last night as they gave up two 7th inning runs to the Hillsboro Hops breaking a 3-3 tie. One of the runs came on a wild pitch bringing a runner in from third base. The Ems […]
Airport Grass Fire Calls came in from around the city including dunes city to report smoke and fire yesterday at about 2:10. A grass fire started at the Florence municipal airport yesterday afternoon during a crack sealing maintenance on the runway and taxiway. A lot of smoke came from the […]
