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County Program Teaches Youth Alcohol Awareness The Lane County Health Department’s Healthy Directions Coalition is expanding its services to include Western Lane County. For months now Emily Bear has been working locally to bring much needed services to the area especially in the area of underage drinking education. A recent […]
Distracted Driver Awareness Month April has been designated as Distracted Driving Awareness month. ODOT reports that in a period of 6 years studied there were over 1040 crashes that were directly related to drives that were distracted by operating a cell phone causing 19 fatalities and over 4400 injuries. Oregon’s […]
Florence Civic Leader and First Citizen Passes Iconic long-time civic leader and former Mayor, Wilbur Turnyik passed away on Sunday. Ternyik moved to Florence at the age of 21. Originally from Astoria his family lineage traces back to pioneer Solomon Smith and Helen Coboway, daughter of the Clatsop Indian Tribes, […]
Accident Blocks Casino Entrance A two vehicle accident with injuries shut down the west bound portion of 126 yesterday evening at the entrance to Three Rivers Casino Resort. Police, fire and Western Lane Ambulance responded. There have been no updates this morning on injuries, but at least one person was […]
New City Policy for Public Comments The City of Florence is adopting new procedures for speaking at public meetings. Beginning April 16th people that wish to make public comment on items that are not currently on the city’s meeting agenda are going to be asked to fill out a speakers […]
New EV Stations in Florence Yesterday was the unveiling of a new Electric Vehicle Charging station in Florence. Just before the noon hour Craig Sanders with the River House Inn and Old Towne Inn was joined by Rick and Julie Durst of Durst Energy and members of Central Lincoln PUD […]
Death With Dignity Improvement Proposed Changes could be coming to Oregons Death With Dignity law. That is the hope of one opponent of the current verbiage contained in it. Bruce Yelle is the head of End Choices a non-profit that is spearheading changes in the current law. He says that […]
City of Florence should ease into State guideline Senate Bill 1051 that requires smaller cities to comply with expanded uses of residential properties goes into effect on July 1st. The new law requires the allowance of single resident zoning to allow for accessory dwelling units, or ADU’s. Due to the […]
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