RAIN Focuses on Business Matt Hollander is the Public Relations Coordinator with RAIN, the Regional Accelator and Innovation Network which helps entrepreneurs and businesses determine the viability of business ideas. “We are taking companies that have an idea for a business and bringing them to the launch stage.  To see […]

Port Manager on Administrative Leave The Port of Siuslaw called a special meeting to address allegations of unwanted advances of a sexual nature by Port Manager Steve Leskin.  The allegations come from the operators of a business which operates on port property.  Leskin has been put on paid administrative leave […]

Remembering the Fallen “Today we pay tribute to the heroic patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice.  Those who bravely rose up and fought for something greater than themselves.  Protecting a home to which they never returned.” It was a somber day of honoring the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice […]

Meeting gets a little bristly Senator Ron Wyden visited Florence Yesterday for his 832nd town hall meeting since he was elected to serve.  It was a generally quiet interaction until the subject of the electoral college came up.  Wyden was asked about Daylight Savings Time and the question got a […]

Infrastructure will require an increase in taxes. Our roads, bridges, rail and marine infrastructure is growing old and is now in need of some serious attention according to State Representative Caddy McKeown.  One of the reasons that she has attributed to the lack of action is the lack of funds […]

Economic Development Moves Ahead Slowly The state of economic development is sometimes an arduous project.  With revision Florence on the table // the future of the 101 corridor is being planned and execution is waiting on some additional funding.  In the meantime, there are still about 22 local commercial buildings […]

Police Release Name of Victim Oregon State Police has released their preliminary report on the ATV accident which resulted in the death of a Florence woman.  The report states that the OSP responded to a call to Mapleton Valley Fire Department of a woman, seriously injured, being transported by a […]

Veteran Broadcaster Passes Harley Youngblood has been the Golden voice for Coast Radio for the past 19 years.  He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.  Harley had been a member of Coast Radio in Florence for 19 years and had been a broadcaster in Oregon throughout his career.  […]