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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 […]
Unvaccinated Concerns Locally COVID-19 is having its worst impact in Lane County since earlier this year according to Jason Davis with Lane County Public Health. And it is driven in part that the 97439 zip code is experiencing the most cases since the beginning of the pandemic. The other driving […]
Lane County Public health is reporting another 10 cases of COVID-19 for the Florence Area this morning. that is in addition to 17 cases that were reported from over the weekend bringing the total number of cases to 319. Over the previous two weeks there have been 58 cases for […]
27 Florence COVID Cases Since Friday The 8 am morning update from Lane County added another 10 cases this morning making the total case count at 319. That is 27 cases since Friday in Florence and 58 cases in the past two weeks. Cases in lane county are up over […]
Fire and EMS Consider Consolidation Expanding on the successful administrative consolidation of Western Lane Fire and EMS Authority, the Board of Directors for Western Lane Ambulance District and Siuslaw Fire & Rescue are considering consolidation of Operations at their next joint board meeting on August 26th. This is a move […]
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