Emergency Cold Weather Shelter to Open Weather conditions over the next several nights will once again necessitate the need for opening the Florence cold weather shelter.  Greg wood announced yesterday that the facility on highway 101 across from the Sand ranch will be open and taking in individuals beginning at […]

Trent Turns the Helm Over at Boys and Girls Club After a couple years back at the helm, Chuck Trent says it’s time to step back and bring in a new CEO to head the Boys and Girls Club of Western Lane County.  Trent says after a thorough search they […]

Students to Return To Campus Siuslaw Middle School and Siuslaw High School will transition to on-campus instruction beginning Monday, March 8th.  In a release yesterday Siuslaw Superintendent Andy Grzeskowiak described the move.  Each School will have live instruction phases in the morning for about half of the students and the […]

Second Vaccination Clinic Lane County Public Health has announced a second vaccination clinic for Florence.  In addition to today’s clinic at the Florence Events Center there will be another 1000 dose clinic on Saturday.  Participants will be in the 65+ category and are selected from the current list that is […]

Four More Cases Reported Monday Four COVID-19 cases from Friday through Sunday and then another 4 cases added to the list for the Florence area yesterday  and that brings the Florence Area Total to 170.  Jason Davis with Lane County Public Health has yet to responds to questions regarding the […]

Daytime 101 Reopens On Saturday the Oregon Department of transportation reported the crews successfully removed the drill rig that had crashed to the ocean floor during reconstruction of a retaining wall at milepost 170.5.  Large cranes removed the wreckage and subsequently finished the work that required a road closure from […]

COVID-19 Update After a review of cases of COVID-19 for Lane County, Lane County Public Health removed one case from the 97439 zip code bringing the Florence total back down to 162 cases.  Lane County Public Health also reported 45 new cases for the county and added two more deaths […]

Local Vaccination Clinic Lane County Public Health is coordinating with West Lane Emergency Operations Group and the City of Florence to bring a mass Vaccination Clinic to Florence on Wednesday, March 3rd at the Florence Events Center beginning at 10 am.  Assistant City Manager Megan Messmer says that in order […]