Safety Alert Continues Yesterday morning the Siuslaw School District issued a Parent and Student Safety Alert after a white male in a white vehicle attempted to coerce a student into his car while the student was waiting for the bus.  The incident occurred at Surfview lane and Highway 101.  It […]

Paving To Continue Temperatures were a little too cold to work on paving of highway 101 last week.  More moderate nighttime temperatures this week will hopefully provide for an opportunity to do the work.  Plans are for working throughout the week in the overnight hours to complete median work and […]

Code Update Reveal Next Wednesday the Florence Planning commission will offer an informational meeting on the new codes and guidelines for building in the city limits.  For almost the past year the commission at the directive of the city council have been working on updating the 39 year old city […]

Non-Emergency at Water Station A computer glitch is responsible for a brief failure of systems that monitor the chlorine levels in drinking water at the water treatment plant in Florence.  Overnight on September 12th an error occurred in the computer software that caused a brief shutdown of the plant.  The […]

Flu Clinic Weekly flu reports from Oregon Health Authority show little activity in flu like symptoms across Oregon.  In the region that includes Lane County there were 157 tests t his past week for Influenza with 4 positives for Flu Type B.  none of these were in the Florence area […]