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Colorado Tops Oregon The Oregon Ducks couldn’t pull a win out of the hat last night at home against the Colorado Buffaloes. The two teams battled back and forth through the evening with 12 lead changes. The score was knotted up at 37 at the half but the Buffaloes outscored […]
Chamber Wants Commissioners to Consider Off-Peak West Lane County The Florence Area Chamber of Commerce reached out to its membership yesterday to make them aware that the Lane County Board of Commissioners is currently in deliberation on what to do with a portion of the Transient Lodging Tax funds. The […]
Rhody Drive Realignment The City of Florence laid out the Rhododendron realignment and improvement project last night at the Florence Events Center. On hand to describe the project and the potential opportunities the project will encompass was the engineering team of RH2 Engineering and K&E Excavating. Delays and closures will […]
College Hoops Ducks The Oregon Ducks are on the court for the first of two games that will bring a close to the regular season. The Duck are at home to host the Colorado Buffaloes. Oregon is 10-14 against Colorado in the Altman era. Colorado won the first […]
Ducks Need Wins There are just two games remaining on the Oregon Ducks Basketball schedule and the Ducks will likely have to win them both to be considered for the NCAA Tournament. They could also make it by winning the Pac-12 tournament, otherwise they will likely end up in the […]
State Money Allocated for Florence Infrastructure Project It still needs the signature of the governor, but the city of Florence will be on the receiving end of 1.9 million dollars of state funding. Senate Bill 1530 has cleared the House and Senate and it is part of the Governor’s plan […]
League Changes to Come Siuslaw Athletic Director Chris Johnson says the change in leagues next season for football, basketball, baseball and softball will eliminate the need to travel to destinations like Sisters for competition. Siuslaw will move to Special District 4 in 3A competition which will consist of Brookings, Coquille, […]
Superintendent Sees Smooth Sailing for Charter School Siuslaw School Superintendent Andy Grzeskowiak says he doesn’t anticipate any more snags as the Siuslaw Valley Charter School board moves forward. Grzeskowiak says due to scheduling conflicts it will not be until May before the contract negotiations get under way, but without any […]
