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Air Quality Suffers in Florence The Lane Regional Air Protection Agency has issued an air quality alert that includes all of Lane County. Conditions have degraded due to the lack of significant coastal winds and are expected to continue that way through the evening on Wednesday. LRAPA has extended the […]
Elmira Up First For the Viks The Siuslaw Vikings are preparing for its opening football game of the 2018 schedule. The Vikings first opponent will be the Elmira Falcons. Although classified as a 4A school, the Siuslaw Vikings will be playing in a 3A Special District 2. The first three […]
Ems Finish Strong in Hawks Series The Boise Hawks flew into Eugene’s PK Park over the weekend for a three game series against the Eugene Emeralds. The Hawks took the first game Friday evening smacking 14 hits and scoring 11 runs as they blanked the Emeralds at home. The Emeralds […]
EMS and Fire Spend a Busy Weekend It was a full weekend for first responders as the increase of summer traffic took its toll on the roadways. It began on Friday evening on highway 101 near the Rock Creek Campground with a three vehicle accident as a driver was attempting […]
ODOT Releases Survey The Oregon Department of transportation released a survey for the public regarding the possibility of a Florence to Eugene transportation route. The City of Florence along with the Florence area Chamber Of Commerce, Lane Council of Governments, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw […]
Ems Pitching Holds It was a slow moving game last night at PK Park as the Eugene Emeralds finished up its 3 game series with the Hillsboro Hops, but with 6 hits and two runs for the Ems it was all they needed to get by Hillsboro. Defense dominated the […]
SVFR Chief Langborg Resigns Last night the Siuslaw valley fire and rescue board met during a public meeting and during the meeting Chief Jim Langborg announced that he would be resigning his position as Chief. Langborg is expected to continue on through October. He has accepted a position in California, […]
Ems Drop Another Game two of the three game series with the Eugene Emeralds and the Hillsboro Hops was last night at PK Park. The Ems fell behind early after a 2 run first inning by the hops. In the fifth the Hops added 3 more runs for a 5-nothing […]
