Stamp Out Hunger In two days, local letter carriers will be collecting food from local residents as part of their Stamp out Hunger initiative.  This year marks the 31st year that the US Postal service has been collecting food.  Here in Florence there are more than 500 families that suffer […]

Heceta Beach Road Flooding The underlying cause of flooding on Heceta Beach Road near Rhododendron Drive has not been officially noted, but Public Works Director Mike Miller says they believe it was possibly a beaver dam or some restricting dike that gave way.  What he did say is that we […]

Proposed Property Sale At this evening’s Florence City Council Meeting the council will consider a sale of a portion of city property located to the Northwest of the Justice Center on 9th street.  The two tax lots make up approximately 1.48 acres.  The property has been deemed as surplus property […]

Flower Baskets Need No matter what happens, all 140 pole mounted flower baskets on Florence’s main streets will be up and blooming all summer.  That’s according to Bettina Hannigan, President and CEO of the Florence Area Chamber of Commerce. “The Chamber pays for those baskets.  If we don’t get them […]

Backflow Testing The City of Florence has announced several points of interest happening in the month of May.  One of the key events is the annual residential backflow device testing that will begin on May 20th. The testing is required through city code and Oregon Administrative rule for the protection […]

City Looking to Finalize Camping Codes Even though only two people provided verbal input at Monday’s special Florence City Council meeting about the draft ordinance regulating homeless camping.  Mayor Rob Ward was pleased with the response.  He said there were seven written comments submitted. “Well, a lot of it was […]

Events A couple of events mark the calendar this weekend in Florence.  The city will be hosting a planting tomorrow at the 18th Street Pocket Park from 10am until 2 pm.  The Environmental Management Advisory Committee will take the lead and the city is invited to participate.  The city staff […]