Sides Line Up On Coronavirus Reporting It began as a plea for Lane County to broaden the regulations for reporting COVID-19 cases in rural Lane County that sparked a debate between public health and personal privacy.  Late Friday afternoon the Siuslaw news posted an article on social media about the […]

Central Lincoln PUD Offers Assistance As COVID-19 continues to shut down businesses and forces employees to the unemployment line, essential services continue to support residents that have found themselves without an income.  The latest is Central Lincoln PUD.  The power utility has implemented a Job Loss Assistance Program for residential […]

No Rhododendron Festival for 2020 The Florence Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors along with the City of Florence and Executive Director Bettina Hannigan met on Monday to discuss the fate of the 113th Rhododendron Festival.  Hannigan says that with the event only 6 weeks away, there was no […]

Rhododendron Festival Cancelled The Covid-19 pandemic strikes another blow to the Florence economy.  The City’s Rhododendron Festival has been cancelled for the first time since World War 2.  Florence Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Bettina Hannigan says the Chamber’s presidential team along with City Manager Erin Reynolds had discussed […]

Port of Siuslaw Declares State of Emergency Last night the Port of Siuslaw passed a resolution declaring a state of emergency.  During the past several months the boat launch at the port has been closed due to dredging along the marina and more recently has been closed due to the […]

More Tests Made Available As the death toll from the Coronavirus climbs to 13 in Oregon, the amount of tests being made available is climbing too.  As of yesterday 11,426 tests have been administered across the state and there are 548 new cases reported by the Oregon Health Authority.  There […]