Street Striping This Thursday and Friday the city of Florence in conjunction with Lane County will begin striping of city streets.  The city reminds drivers to proceed with caution and give workers plenty of room.  Do not pass striping vehicles while they are striping as you can damage your vehicle […]

Social Security Scam In recent days you may have received a phone call from a recording claiming to be from the Oregon Department of Revenue with the caller falsely reporting to be a Social Security representative.  This is just the latest in scams attempting to gather personal and financial information […]

Outage Sparks Concern in Florence A major telecommunications outage in the Portland area had trickle-down effects in Florence.  People on the AT&T network yesterday experienced problems with phone and internet services and even had difficulty texting.  The cause for the outage has not been released and services may still be […]

Mural Dedicated Partisan politics were put aside yesterday as the city council came together to dedicate the mural on the Central Lincoln PUD building.  About one hundred spectators came to the event and Mayor Joe Henry recognized the difficulties surrounding the mural saying that there had been stress on both […]

Manhunt Continues Lane County Sheriff’s Department is still seeking the man they say shot someone south of Florence on Highway 101.  35 year old Gene Manuel Joseph is still believed to be in the Florence area according to the Lane County Sheriff’s Office.  The shooting occurred on July 29th.  The […]

Revision Projects Continue on Schedule In the midst of a lot of construction on the ReVision Florence project the city has completed many upgrades to side streets throughout town.  Asphalt resurfacing and chip and seal projects finished up last week.  City Manager Erin Reynolds says ReVision work will be ramping […]

Scholarship Announced Organizers are working at establishing an art scholarship in the memory of long time Art instructor at both Siuslaw and Mapleton schools, Pat Knipe.  Knipe passed away on April 19th at the age of 73.  Former Teacher and Coach, Steve Galbraith says they would like to see an […]

City Council Meets The Florence City Council will convene on Monday evening.  Part of their discussions will include a consideration to accept a bid to extend water and sewer services eastward on highway 126.  There is currently a bid on the table from Ray Wells incorporated in the amount of […]