Local News, Sports and Everything Florence
Track and Field Varsity and Junior Varsity athletes participated in the Sky-Em Track and Field Event yesterday at Marshfield High School. In the 100 meter race Viking runners dominated with juniors Wesley Nicholls and Charles Nelson taking the top two spots. Nicholls set a personal record time of 11.52. The […]
Women Build This Friday and Saturday the local Habitat for Humanity will be holding a special event. The Florence Habitat for Humanity 2024 Women Build Event is a chance for women to get involved and gain new skills in construction and leadership. Professionals will be on hand to teach skills […]
Athlete of the Week The Sports club, the Siuslaw News and Coast Radio Sports congratulate junior Siuslaw Baseball player Maximus Reynolds as this week’s athlete of the week. Maximus drove in the winning run in two come from behind games last week against Elmira and had a game saving put […]
Road Work Traffic remains slow with access to Heceta Beach at stake. The Knife River Company is currently working on repaving portions of Heceta Beach Road that recently underwent water line replacement for Heceta Water District. The flow of traffic consisted of up to 15 minute waits on Monday and […]
Baseball/Softball The Siuslaw Vikings on Friday won both games against Elmira after trailing in the 7th inning. In game one. Max Reynolds at the plate, there’s the pitch, solid drive over second base, base h it the Vikings win. Max Reynolds, outstanding comeback for the Vikings.” Wayne Sharpe and Jay […]
City Council The Florence City Council will meet twice this evening. First at 4pm in executive session to continue a discussion on real property transactions, this meeting will be closed to the public. Then at 5:30 the council will have its regular meeting which will include a proposal to sell […]
Double-Header Softball/Baseball The Siuslaw Vikings will take the mound today to defend their turf against the visiting Elmira Falcons. The softball and baseball teams will undertake double-headers today beginning at 2 pm. The Viking boys will be on the air on KCST beginning at 1:45 with a pregame and first […]
EMAC Activity Days Florence’s Environmental Management Advisory Committee, also known as E-mac, doubles as the city’s “Tree Board” in connection with Florence’s status as a “Tree City USA”. Two events are coming later this month as part of a larger overall Arbor Day observance. One will be on Arbor Day […]
