Central Lincoln Seeks Extra Security Fencing The Florence Planning Commission will hear a request by Central Lincoln PUD to expand a “pre-existing, non-conforming use” of chain link fencing around a portion of the parking and storage areas of their office at Tenth Street and Highway 101.  The publicly owned utility […]

Fatal Wreck Mapleton Highway 36 at milepost 1 had to be closed for several hours yesterday as emergency responders were dispatched to a head on collision. one of the vehicles left the roadway and went into the Siuslaw River.  This happened about 12:26 yesterday.  According to Western Lane Fire and […]

Florence Champion Passes The Florence community has learned of the passing of longtime resident and influencer Tom Grove.  Grove was instrumental in bringing to life many of the things taken for granted in Florence like the Florence Events Center and the current state of PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Medical Center as […]

City Reports Telephone Issue Telephone issues interrupted communications for the city of Florence briefly yesterday. For about an hour and a half Wednesday morning the city’s phone system went off line for undetermined reasons.  Asst city manager Megan Messmer relayed the information to the public via radio and the city’s […]

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 […]