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Arbor Day Celebration Saturday, April 30th the City of Florence’s EMAC committee will be holding an Arbor Day celebration in Old Town Park. The event will be from 10 am until 1:45 pm it will feature Oregon State University Forester Lauren Grand and Lane County Master Gardener Tom Bettman as […]
Baseball Gets Going Friday Weather has affected sporting schedules for another day. The National Weather service is calling the April rains as unusual and it has caused the postponement of baseball and softball for the Siuslaw Vikings as well as some other high schools. For 2 days the Vikings tried […]
Pop Up Vax Clinic Lane County Public Health has teamed up again with the City of Florence to add a Covid vaccination clinic at the Florence Events Center. The “pop-up” clinic will be this Saturday from 10 to 1:30 at the FEC. There is no charge, but it is by […]
Baseball/softball Moved Sporting activities had to take a back seat to weather conditions yesterday. The Siuslaw Vikings were to begin their seasons of baseball and softball against Marist Catholic in Eugene, but inclement weather put a halt to that. The games were temporarily moved to Florence to try to get […]
Fatal Wreck on 126 Another crash on Highway 126 claims the life of an 18 year old Monroe man. On Sunday Colton Kenneth Rice of Monroe died when the dark blue Honda Civic he was driving collided head on with a silver Toyota Tundra driven by Clint Robison, 33 of […]
AMJ Invite Results Siuslaw’s men’s and women’s track and field team out paced the competition on Saturday at the AMJ Invite. Siuslaw men scored 258 points and the women scored 121 points and both finished first among 10 schools that participated. Hunter Petterson finished first in the 200 and 400 […]
Siuslaw High School Threat – Not Credible Yesterday afternoon Florence police Dispatch received a threatening call from someone stating that they were walking toward Siuslaw High School with an explosive device. The individual was heavily accented and gave a description of the school that did not match any facility at […]
Siuslaw vs. Creswell The Siuslaw Vikings managed 2 runs on 10 hits yesterday, but a 4 run 3rd inning by Creswell capped the action for the afternoon at Jiggs Dodson Field. Senior Beau Erickson had 3 hits and an RBI. He also pitched 4 and 2/3’s innings facing 16 batters […]
