Food Assistance Deadline Oregon families that are eligible have until Monday to apply for summer food benefits. The Summer E-B-T program provides families with a one-time payment of 120 dollars per child in a household. The program was started during the pandemic and made permanent this year. Most who qualified […]

Park Remodel The City of Florence is working to update and expand some of the parks throughout the city.  Beginning this fall the city will expand the area for one of the newest and fastest growing sports, Pickleball.  The Rolling Dunes improvement project will increase the current facility at Rolling […]

Hoyle Visits Florence U.S. Representative Val Hoyle was in town this week to look at a couple of projects that are occurring along her district.  Here in Florence and Mapleton it is a reinforcement of land along the Siuslaw River to prevent slides that would negatively impact it. A Project […]

School Board Meeting The Siuslaw School District Board of Directors had its first meeting of the academic year last night. A “Staff Attire” policy presented to the board  last school year was passed unanimously. There were minor changes from the original policy that account for more casual Fridays and that […]