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Lane County Continues To Spike in COVID-19 Cases Despite strong warnings and strict guidelines put forth by the state Lane County continues to be a hotbed for COVID-19 infections. Lane County added 47 new cases yesterday and grew to a week-long high of 175 cases considered infectious. The new cases […]
Lane Surpasses All Counties in Daily COVID-19 Numbers The surge of coronavirus cases and infectious individuals continues to mount in Lane County. Yesterday’s total added 48 more cases, but the alarming total according to Public Health officials is the 143 infectious individuals, the highest total so far. Lane County Public […]
Health Advisory For Heceta Beach The Oregon Health Authority has issued a public health advisory for the waters surrounding Heceta Beach Area. According to the advisory there are high levels of fecal bacteria in the ocean waters and exposure to them could cause nausea, diarrhea, stomach cramps, skin rashes and […]
Peak Infectious Numbers for Lane County Lane County has added another 28 cases of COVID-19 in yesterday’s report, bringing the weekend total to 72 new cases. According to Lane County Public Health Liaison Jason Davis this raises our infectious cases to the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic. […]
Council to Consider Options for Open Seat The Florence City Council in their morning work session will consider the options for appointing a city councilor to fill the position vacated by Geraldine Prociw. Prociw’s term was to last until 2022 and in a letter to the city council; City Manager […]
City Proposes New State of Emergency The Florence City Council is back to business on Monday as it meets for its scheduled work session at 10:30 in the morning. The 4 member council will work through items for the Monday evening meeting. On the planned agenda for the evening meeting […]
Air Quality Index The air quality for Florence and mapleton continues to get better with the change in weather. Overnight the Air Quality Index dropped to a 7 on the AQI chart, the best it has been in nearly 2 weeks. Likewise the Mapleton AQI is lower at 29 this […]
Local Air Quality Improves as Valley Struggles with Wildfire As winds shift the Florence and Mapleton areas are benefitting. The air quality is returning to acceptable levels and the Air Quality Index is currently 102 and 93 respectively. That is expected to change and go even lower throughout the day. […]
