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Cold Weather Shelter; Mapleton schools; Siuslaw Awards nominees; ODOT noise concerns; County leadership; Gas prices surge

Cold Weather Shelter openings exceed plans Florence’s volunteer run Cold Weather Shelter will be open again tonight and tomorrow… bringing the total number of openings so far this year to a dozen.  That’s twice what organizers anticipated for the entire season… and six times more than last year’s openings. Reverend […]

Viking girls hold on for OT win

Alyssa Richards hit a key basket at the end, then Madison Reynolds pulled down a defensive rebound and the Lady Vikings held off the Junction City Tigers in overtime for a 39-37 non-league win at home last night.  Destinie Tatum led scoring with 17 points and 18 rebounds. In Junction […]

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  SPRINGFIELD KILLING-SENTENCE Springfield man gets life sentence for 2015 slaying (Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com) EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A man who admitted to killing a 23-year-old Springfield woman after breaking into her home and sexually assaulting her has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Register-Guard […]

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  EUGENE MARIJUANA COMPLEX Company plans Eugene complex to house dozens of pot growers (Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com) EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A southern Oregon real estate company looking to capitalize on the expanding marijuana industry is planning to build a multimillion-dollar growing and processing facility in Eugene with […]