It’s safe to go back in the water.  That’s according to officials who lifted a public health advisory for Heceta Beach only 24 hours after imposing it yesterday.  That’s when three separate water samples showed excessive levels of fecal enterococcus.  Contact with contaminated water can cause gastroenteritis, skin rashes […]

Danger could be just around the corner for thousands of Oregon school-age children says Marie Dodds with Triple-A.  Some students are already back in the classrooms, but most of Oregon schools open next week.  Dodds says there are some simple precautions that drivers can take to help keep the kids […]

The annual Fall Beach Cleanup is just two weeks away.  Oregon Parks Beach Ranger Trisha Wymore says volunteers are being sought for Saturday, September 17th from ten to one.  There will be six volunteer check-in stations in the Florence Area and two in Reedsport.  Last fall about seven-thousand people turned […]

A 34-year old Florence woman is facing charges of Rape and Sodomy in the third degree after a 14-year old boy told police she had sex with him.  Abra Crump allegedly met the boy at Siuslaw Public Library last Friday afternoon.  The two then walked to a secluded area about […]

  Just in time for the last big push of summer… a public health advisory has been issued for the Heceta Beach area in Florence.  Curtis Cude (KOOD) with the Oregon Health Authority says water samples taken in three areas… just north of Driftwood Shores, just south of the resort […]