Cold Weather Shelter Remains Open For the third night in a row inclement weather and cold temperatures have forced the opening of the Cold Weather Shelter at the Presbyterian church of the Siuslaw on Highway 101.  Transportation will be provided from the Siuslaw public library, Safeway, and Fred Meyer.  Registration […]

Storm Knocks Out Power Yesterday’s storm blew through Florence and left over 700 PUD customers without power.  Many of those were on the north end of Rhododendron drive.  Downed power lines effected the area for about 4 hours as crews worked to restore power.  Power was back on for many […]

Pounding Breaks Records It was a community wide effort of epic proportions as members of the community showed up on Saturday to help fill the shelves of the Florence Food share.  Just after 2 hours the food share delivery truck had hauled about 10 thousand pounds of food over to […]

Siltcoos Algae Siltcoos Lake has been suffering from an outbreak of cyanobacteria according to a press release from Dunes City Recorder Jamie Mills.  Back in November the blue-green algae was up to 1,423,372 parts per milliliter.  Anything over 100,000 ppm is considered concerning.  Some of the issue can be attributed […]

Residential Code Approval It has been several years in the planning and last night the Florence Planning commission and the Florence city Council came together in a public hearing to discuss the revisions and updates to the residential codes for the city.  The codes that regulate items from buildable lot […]