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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 […]
Press Release – PPE Donations
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 […]
School Keeping Students Engaged They are calling it supplemental education. That’s what the lessons going home to the hundreds of students in the Siuslaw school district are receiving during the break from classes due to COVID-19. According to the Siuslaw school superintendent, Andy Grzeskowiak the lessons are intended to keep […]
OHA COVID-19 Numbers The latest numbers from the Oregon Health Authority have confirmed that there are 266 (268) cases of the coronavirus in the state of Oregon. To date there have been 5,742 tests administered and 5,476 negative test results. The total number of known cases in Lane County has […]
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