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First Citizen Nominees The nominations for First Citizen and Future First Citizen have been announced. For First Citizen the nominations are Dee Osborne and Harlan Springer and Future First Citizen nominations are Audrey Lowder, Robert Mans, Samantha Scheer and Naomi Shoji. The 11th annual Siuslaw Awards will be held Wednesday […]
Driving Instructors Needed Lane County and specifically Florence/Mapleton Area is in great need of ODOT certified driving instructors. Rob Griffes is the only ODOT certified instructor in the area and he says that he is capped out on the number of students that he can accept. Griffes offers 2 programs […]
Port Working on Erosion Project The Port of Siuslaw has begun work on repairing some of the erosion that has been taking place over the past several years. The project has been on the books for some time, and the port had received a grant of 200 thousand dollars to […]
Timeline Not Set In Stone…Yet Revision Florence construction is slated to begin in February, but that will be contingent on a couple of factors. Weather being one and the completion of a walk through that may take some time to accomplish. City Manager Erin Reynolds says the plan is to […]
Accident Shuts Down 101 The potential for a deadly disaster was avoided on Saturday afternoon when a 1997 ford explorer traveling southbound on Highway 101 just south of Florence at approximately 1:28 pm crossed traffic and became airborne leaving a path of damage before crashing into the propane tank located […]
New Council to Convene 3 members of the Florence City council will take the oath of office on Monday evening. Mayor Joe Henry, councilman Woody Woodbury, and new councilwoman Geraldine Lucio will be officially sworn in. There will be a brief council meeting to approve minutes from the November and […]
Bag Ban Imminent? It’s coming. A source close to the subject has said that Florence will likely have a ban on plastic bags in place sometime in the 2019 calendar year. The Florence Environmental Management Advisory Committee will meet this evening to discus some of the aspects of a ban, […]
Roadkill For Dinner One of the new laws in effect for Oregon in 2019 is the Roadkill law. Oregonians may now harvest deer and elk that has been killed in roadside accidents. You are required to have a permit though. Of course the permits are retroactive and you must submit […]
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