Local News, Sports and Everything Florence
Coast Guard Chief Reflects on First Year With just over a year under his belt, Senior chief bosun’s mate Jay Nilles is enjoying his tenure as the head of U.S. Coast Guard Station Siuslaw River. Nilles says being stationed in a Coast Guard City has been a great experience, especially […]
Last night in Boise the Eugene Emeralds were shutout by the Hawks. The Ems stranded 6 runners on 5 hits through the night and gave up 8 hits and 4 runs to the Hawks. The Hawks defeated the Ems despite committing 3 errors on the night. Final score 4-0. […]
Peace Health Celebrates 30 July marks 30 years since the opening of Peace Harbor hospital in Florence. The history of PeaceHealth in Florence dates back 40 years when they were contracted to provide management services to Western Lane Hospital. The hospital plans a low key celebration of the event on […]
Shutte Defers to 2020 Siuslaw Athletic Director, Chris Johnson announced that there is an additional deferment to the Hall of Fame inductions. Jesse Schutte was to be part of the 2019 class, but he is scheduled to be in a PGA event that week. Schutte is a member of the […]
June Doc Talk: With Dr. Ronald Shearer, Community Health Chair Ron Green, and CAO of Peace Harbor Jason Hawkins
Quakes Rock Gently Saturday Morning A series of 8 earthquakes in a cluster located off the Oregon coast happened early Saturday morning. The quakes ranged from 3.2 to 5.4 in magnitude. The quakes were centered around 200 miles west of Coos Bay and occurred over a three and a half […]
Ems Win 2 of 3 Over the weekend the Eugene Emeralds went 2-1 against the Tri-City Dust Devils. On Friday night the Ems kicked it off with a 3 run second inning and the Dust Devils tied it up with one in the top of the 5th and 2 more […]
Port Approves Budget The Port of Siuslaw Board of Commissioners unanimously approved their fiscal budget for 2019/2020. The port’s budget committee recommended the 2,981,523 budget. Included in the budget was a 230,000 capital expense to raise the blue storage buildings to provide more camp spaces and $325,000 for dredging around […]
