PeaceHealth to Require Healthcare Worker Vaccinations Late yesterday morning the PeaceHealth Hospital system released information that they were going to require all healthcare workers to be vaccinated.  this comes one day after PeaceHealth announced that it would be reinstating its no visitor policy.  Dr. David Koukkouk is the Chief physician […]

National Night Out – Ribbon Cutting This evening is the third annual National Night out in Florence.  The event is intended to shine a light on awareness of police programs such as drug prevention, town watch, neighborhood watch, and other anti-crime efforts.  The event will be held from 6-9 pm […]

Vaccination Clinic Numbers Although the numbers may not seem high, Nancy Berge with ARC in Eugene Springfield was happy with the turn out on Saturday at the vaccination Clinic at the Siuslaw Middle School.  Berge says there was a good sampling of individuals that participated. “We had a couple juveniles, […]

Vaccination is the Key Since the beginning of the pandemic the area around Florence has 322 cases of the coronavirus.  20% of those cases have been in the last two weeks according to numbers compiled by Lane County Public Health.  The largest condensed number of any two week period since […]

Accident Details The accident that caused the shutdown of highway 101 for more than 6 hours yesterday took the life of two individuals and injured two more.  Oregon State police say that at about 7:20 am they responded to a two vehicle crash around milepost 196.  Their preliminary investigation show […]