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New Report of Scam The Lane County Sheriff’s department is warning of a new scam involving persons impersonating Sheriff’s office employees. According to Sergeant Tom Speldrich the scammers are identifying themselves either verbally, by text or by email as employees of the Lane County Sheriff’s Office even going so far […]
Skarlatos Visits Florence 4th district congressional candidate Alek Skarlatos visited Florence yesterday on his latest bid to be the next representative from one of the largest districts in Oregon. Skarlatos met with supporters and potential supporters at ICM Restaurant. He spoke with Coast Radio News prior to his luncheon. He […]
COVID-19 Numbers COVID-19 continues to generate cases for the 97439 zip code. 31 new cases were reported by the Oregon Health Authority for an all time total of 1930 cases for the Florence Area. The OHA is also reporting that the BA-4 and BA-5 variants of the virus are the […]
Airport Grass Fire Calls came in from around the city including dunes city to report smoke and fire yesterday at about 2:10. A grass fire started at the Florence municipal airport yesterday afternoon during a crack sealing maintenance on the runway and taxiway. A lot of smoke came from the […]
Rods N Rhodies September 9th and 10th is the annual Rods N Rhodies car show in old town. Last night at the City Council meeting the council approved the street closure that will affect Bay street from the Nopal and 1st Street intersection to the Siuslaw River Bridge for Saturday […]
Police Training The Florence Police Department will undergo training exercises at Siuslaw Elementary School this Friday. There will be signs clearly marking the training that will take place from 8 am until 4 pm that day. The training is to ensure that Florence Police Officers are prepared in the case […]
Monkeypox Cases The number of Monkeypox cases continues to grow in Oregon. The latest numbers have reached 95 cases. 92 of those cases are in men, but Dr. Dean Sidelinger with the Oregon Health Authority says while some are dubbing this a disease that effects a certain segment of the […]
Latest COVID Numbers The latest weekly report on COVID-19 cases is in. The Oregon Health Authority is reporting a drop in the 7 day average for the virus with 961 cases. The OHA is still reporting daily case counts but the weekly county reporting is still the norm for specific […]
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