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Viking Basketball Siuslaw Viking boy’s basketball is now 6-6 on the season after a pair of loses over the weekend. On Friday the Vikings fell to Hidden Valley 45-40. Brody Terry put up 20 points in the Loss. On Saturday the boys faced Mazama losing 67-58 Brody Terry put up […]
Local COVID-19 Numbers Surging There were 22 more COVID-19 cases identified in the 97439 zip code on Friday. Lane County is reporting multilple daily cases for the Florence area and there have been 86 cases reported in the last two weeks. The total continues to inch towards the 1,000 mark […]
Wrestlers Victorious The Siuslaw Viking were the winners of the Sky-Em Dual meet yesterday at Siuslaw High School. individual winners against Cottage Grove were Wilson Zhen, Yoskar Delamora, Ryan Clark, Leo Robertson, Henter Petterson Jacob Welton, John Corser, Mason Buss, Joel Sissel and Dayne Muller. Against Elmira Zhen won by […]
Storm Results Last night’s wind event had a much smaller impact than the one earlier in the week. While there is still a high wind warning until 10 am this morning the instances of power outages is much less Central Lincoln PUD is reporting about 200 customers without power this […]
Greg Wood Discusses First Step – Transitional Housing Efforts: Andy Vbora – Dune Restoration Project Update Dr. Willie Foster – Peace Harbor Covid Update Jodi O’Mara – on Retirement and Cancer Rachel Pearson and Kirk Mlinek – Winter Music Festival Jason Davis Lane County Public Health Cheri Payne – Peace […]
Pharmacy Issues Continue The Florence area continue to deal with long waits and limited access to their medications as the new year has not resolved the issues with pharmacies. Peace Harbor Director of Medical Group Operations, Cheri Payne says they are seeing some smoothing out of the issue but there […]
Weekend Basketball – Siuslaw This weekend’s crossover basketball tournament will see the Siuslaw boys playing Hidden Valley at Hidden valley on Friday and the girls will play at home against Henley. The girls will play in the main gym at 6pm and tickets are available online through the schools website. […]
Bridge Accident An accident yesterday afternoon caused a back up of traffic along Highway 101. Emergency crews responded to a two vehicle wreck on the Siuslaw River Bridge at approximately 4:15. Both lanes of the bridge were affected and the bridge was closed down until about 5:30. There was no […]
