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Fire Claims Life A fire in the 1900 block of 23rd street on Saturday claimed the life of an 80 year old female. Smoke was noticed coming from the residence and emergency personnel found victim deceased in the bedroom. The name of the woman has not yet been released and […]
Athlete of the Week The Sports Club the Siuslaw News and Coast Radio Sports congratulate senior quarterback Beau Erickson as this week’s athlete of the week. Erickson orchestrated several scoring drives distributing the ball to multiple receivers in Friday night’s win against the Blanchet Catholic Cavaliers which included an 18 […]
COVID-19 Numbers and Vaccination Clinic The list of all time cases of COVID-19 for the 97439 zip code increased by 3 in Lane County Public Health’s last report bringing the total number of cases to 731. Cases continue to be on the decline in Lane County as the Delta variant […]
Vikings Advance Friday night the Siuslaw Vikings held the Blanchet Catholic Cavaliers to just 6 points as the Vikings advanced to the next round of the 3A state championships. The Vikings began the scoring with a 19 yard td pass to Camp Lacouture from Beau Erickson. Later in the 1st […]
Jay Bozievich – Lane County Commissioner -COVID and Other Things Shannon Sheets, Gary Vawter – Kiwanis Thanksgiving State Representative – Boomer Wright Goeffrey Canon, Kurt Van der Bogart – Festival of Trees Cindy Wobbe – Pounding for Florence Food Share
Commissioner Sees Light Four more COVID-19 cases have been recorded for the 97439 zip code from yesterday’s report from Lane County Public Health. That is a total of 728 since the beginning of the pandemic. The pandemic with the onset of the Delta Variant did cause some difficulties for Lane […]
Fall Sports There has been a lot of excitement surrounding Siuslaw Sports this fall as 3 of the four active sports achieved playoffs or advanced to Championships rounds. Viking volleyball ended their run in Sisters on Tuesday after a successful season under the tutelage of new head coach Kari Blake. […]
Tomorrow evening the Siuslaw Vikings will be with Blanchet Catholic in the first round of the 3A playoffs. Coach Sam Johnson says the schools ranking is a bit deceiving. “You’re going to see a 16 seed that probably isn’t a 16 seed that should probably be an 8 or 9 […]
