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Summit to Focus on Coastal Issues Coming up in October the Oregon Coast Visitors Association will be holding its annual end of season summit here in Florence. Travel Lane County’s Andy Vobora says the two day summit will focus on several topics. “People will be able to experience from important […]
Raises Hope to Retain Teachers Over the Summer the Siuslaw School Board approved dynamic raises for the faculty. A move that will have lasting effects. Tomorrow ushers in the official start of classes at Siuslaw and this year teachers will be returning to the classroom, looking forward to increased pay for […]
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 […]
Bird Outs Power Mother Nature was responsible for the power outage in the 20th street area yesterday morning. But it wasn’t a storm, wind or even a tree branch. This time it was a crow that caused an arc and a transformer to fail. Central Lincoln PUD was called out […]
Child Health Focus Oregon aims to make social and emotional health care for young children more available with a new metric. The Oregon Health Authority has adopted the Child-Level Social Emotional Health Metric, which will improve and incentivize this care for kids from birth to age five who are on […]
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 […]
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