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New Variant Website There has been enough talk about variants of the COVID-19 virus that the Oregon Health Authority has established a new dashboard website to cover the cumulative count of variant strains of the virus. The site will include a map of variant cases broken down by region along […]
Meet Rescheduled Siuslaw High School’s first track meet for the season has been rescheduled to April 20th. there was a meet scheduled for this week, but due in part to the extension of the football season by one week, Athletic director Chris Johnson says there were not enough athletes ready […]
Concern Over EMAC Continues At Monday evening’s City Council Meeting councilor Sally Wantz expressed concern over the lack of a quorum at March 30th’s EMAC Meeting. Wantz quoted two members of the committee that expressed a desire to have the committee dissolved. The committee has been embroiled in controversy regarding […]
Council Approves Annexation The Florence City council has passed the ordinance approving the annexation of the Benedick Holdings, LLC and the rezoning of the 48.82 acres to a low density residential area. Some concerns were raised by councilor Meyer regarding the city’s liability in the event that engineering proposals did […]
Athlete of the Week The Sports Club, the Siuslaw News and Coast Radio Sports congratulate sophomore volleyball standout Desiree Tupua as this week’s Athlete of the Week. In addition to the previous week’s accomplishments, Desiree continued to perform at a high level in the last two matches of the season. […]
New COVID-19 Cases Despite many individuals receiving the COVID-19 vaccine the coronavirus is letting us know that it is still around. Over the weekend the Florence Area continued to show more instances of the virus with 4 more residents testing positive for it. The case count in Florence is now […]
Vikings/Tigers The Siuslaw Vikings on Friday night hosted the Junction City Tigers in football. The Vikings fell behind quickly against a tough Tiger offense, but seemed to find a rhythm late in the game fighting back from a 34-14 deficit. The Vikings scored two quick touchdowns in the 4th quarter […]
Meeting Leaves Community Waiting Some Florence citizens believe that they are being stonewalled when it comes to issues of Climate change. On March 30th there was to be a meeting of the EMAC committee that would be hearing testimony from a group that is in favor of having a subcommittee […]
