Holiday Travel AAA Oregon is reporting that an estimated 785,000 Oregonians will be taking to the roads, air and even sea this thanksgiving. Beginning today roadways are expected to be heavy with traffic. They estimate an average of 55.4 million people will travel more than 50 miles from home to […]

Board Hears Stats on Sex Offenders The Siuslaw School District Board of Directors heard from a retired police detective last week.  Dean Lott spent 12-years investigating crimes, 90% of which, he says, involved crimes against children.  Those were usually sex crimes.  In his letter to the board Lott said Oregon […]

City Council Meets There are several items on this evening’s Florence City Council meetings agenda. One of the items includes the possible approval of $120,000 in managed information technology service costs.  According to information provided by city staff to the council the city’s MIT provider StepUp that began services in […]

Rite-Aid to Shutter Store As part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing Rite-Aid has begun the process of shutting down what they are calling underperforming stores.  One of those stores is here in Florence.  Rite-Aid announced that the local store will remain open  until November 29th.  Large blue bins cover […]

Retired Colonel Sets Sights on District 4 This morning a retired Air Force Colonel and long time Oregon resident has thrown her hat in the ring for the 4th district congressional seat.  Monique DeSpain served 30 years in the armed forces serving as a lawyer in the Judge Advocate General’s […]

Murder Suspects Arrested Three people were taken into custody in relation to service of a search warrant in the Noti area Monday.  Lt. Ryan Wells with the Lane County Sheriff’s office said the arrests came after a year-long investigation of the death of 37-year old Sean Lee Wilkins of Swisshome […]

Preparedness Survey The City of Florence and the Western Lane Emergency Operations Group are looking for feedback as they continue to work to provide information about emergency preparedness and potential emergencies that the are might experience.  In order to help them understand the needs and the current state of preparedness […]

Planning Commission Meeting The Florence Planning Commission will meet tomorrow evening with two items on their agenda.  The first will be a general design review of the proposed Dollar General Store that would be located on the vacant property between Chens Restaurant and the Burger King on Highway 101.  Considerations […]