The Florence City Council will get a pair of updates this evening.  First up: Cal Applebee, executive director of the Florence Area Chamber of Commerce will give a report on the chamber’s marketing activity for the year and confirm that organization’s request for $50-thousand in transient room tax money. The […]

While students are headed back to school, some attention has been paid to how many education jobs have been lost in Oregon over the past three years.  According to a report today in the Oregonian, public schools in the state have reduced the number of jobs by 6,500.  And, say […]

The buses are running and the kids are walking to school.  Classes get underway at Siuslaw Elementary and Primary school today, while Sixth Graders and 9th Graders will get a half day at the middle school and high school respectively.  All grades, Kindergarten through 12, will be in session tomorrow. […]

One just has to look at the east coast following Irene to see that even though there was way more water than anyone may have wanted… there wasn’t enough to drink in many places. Disaster responses in many locations in Vermont included clean drinking water because many facilities and supplies […]

Anglers on the Siuslaw River will be able to catch and keep wild coho salmon for the first time in many years beginning September 15th.  Wildlife officials say it will be the largest coho fishery in 15 years. Salmon returns of the threatened species are high enough on 11 water […]