Local News, Sports and Everything Florence
COVID Surge Continues The three day weekend total of COVID-19 cases continues to be a cause of concern for the state as well as health care professionals. Hospital beds are continuing to fill up with patients as some hospitals now are choosing to put off elective surgeries in order to […]
Man Shot Attempting to Steal Motorcycle The Lane County Sheriff’s department is continuing its investigation into a shooting that happened Saturday morning in Mapleton. According to information released 25 year old Michael Wayne Vincent was shot in the leg while he was allegedly attempting to steal a motorcycle from East […]
Record Setting Day for COVID-19 The Florence community is still adding cases of COVID-19. There were two more cases added to the list yesterday bringing the case total since the start of the pandemic to 360. Lane County added 210. The state reported the highest number of cases in a […]
Mandate Begins Friday Governor Kate Brown says that due to the extreme amount of COVID-19 cases she is mandating the use of masks in all indoor public settings beginning this Friday. Brown says the hospital systems are almost maxed out with COVID patients and some hospitals are even nearing capacity […]
Cases Predominately Un-Vaccinated With cases on the rise in Florence, 5 more added to yesterday’s total, one of the questions being asked is are the new infections part of the vaccinated community. Jason Davis Lane County Public Health Liaison says Florence is trending the same as the rest of Lane […]
11 New Cases-Florence Yesterday Lane County Public Health released its total of weekend COVID-19 cases and an alarming 11 new cases were reported for Florence. This along with 622 new reported cases for the entire county, prompted Lane County Public Health Authorities to release public service announcements regarding vaccination clinics […]
Surge Continues Over the past week Lane County has experienced one of the highest rates of COVID-19 to date. Since the end of the State’s restrictions COVID-19 cases have surged. Cases of the more spreadable Delta Variant are at the forefront of new cases. The month of August thus far […]
Numbers Continue Surge Lane County continues to have high numbers of new covid-19 cases as they added another 118 to the list. There were however no new cases reported for the Florence area. The State reported 1382 new cases. What is causing concern aside from the volume of new infections […]
|
|
 |