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Jay Bozievich – Lane County Commissioner -COVID and Other Things Shannon Sheets, Gary Vawter – Kiwanis Thanksgiving State Representative – Boomer Wright Goeffrey Canon, Kurt Van der Bogart – Festival of Trees Cindy Wobbe – Pounding for Florence Food Share
Commissioner Sees Light Four more COVID-19 cases have been recorded for the 97439 zip code from yesterday’s report from Lane County Public Health. That is a total of 728 since the beginning of the pandemic. The pandemic with the onset of the Delta Variant did cause some difficulties for Lane […]
Fall Sports There has been a lot of excitement surrounding Siuslaw Sports this fall as 3 of the four active sports achieved playoffs or advanced to Championships rounds. Viking volleyball ended their run in Sisters on Tuesday after a successful season under the tutelage of new head coach Kari Blake. […]
Tomorrow evening the Siuslaw Vikings will be with Blanchet Catholic in the first round of the 3A playoffs. Coach Sam Johnson says the schools ranking is a bit deceiving. “You’re going to see a 16 seed that probably isn’t a 16 seed that should probably be an 8 or 9 […]
Week-Long Vax Clinic The Florence Events Center will be the site of a week-long clinic for COVID-19 vaccinations as well as testing for the coronavirus. The clinic is organized by the Oregon Health Authority and will utilize the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s mobile vaccination unit. The Clinic will run Monday […]
Levy Passes With just under 6200 votes cast the levy that will fund Western Lane Ambulance for the next 5 years has passed. 3510 votes supported ballot measure 20-322 with 2687 opposing it. While it was a victory for Western Lane Ambulance the levy did not receive the same amount […]
Outlaws Outlast Vikings The season has ended for the Siuslaw Viking girls volleyball team. Last night in Sisters the Vikings lost in four sets. The Vikings came out strong but lost the first set 25-23, but the Vikings fought hard in the second and came out on top 19-25. Outlaws […]
Levy Reckoning Today is Election Day with just one item on the ballot. Measure 20-322 is approved will continue the Levy for Western Lane Ambulance services. There has been much debate over the past several months with local business owner Larry Farnsworth leading the charge to see the Levy defeated. […]
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