Fewer Calls on Dunes… but more severe… Two serious crashes on the dunes over the weekend resulted in helicopter life-flights from the sand.  Friday afternoon a motorcycle and a four-wheel off-highway-vehicle collided near New Competition Hill just west of Honeyman State Park.  46-year old Craig Owens of McMinnville suffered what […]

  Emeralds Fall Again The Vancouver Canadians held the Eugene Emeralds scoreless for the second night in a row, scoring on a ninth inning sacrifice to win one-nothing.  The Emeralds are in Keizer this evening where they’ll open up a three game series against the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. Sandblasters in Playoffs […]

Pancake Breakfast   7:00 – 9:00 Start your day off with a delicious serving of hot pancakes & scrambled eggs.  7-9 am at the United Methodist Church- 333 Kingwood Highway 126 Clean-up   7:00am – 1:00pm A clean-up on both sides of the highway mileposts 0-6.  Organized by Citizens Democracy Watch, Florence […]

Results of the 15th annual Florence Great Kiwanis Duck Race on the Siuslaw River, July 4th 2012.  Sorry, organizers only provided us with the list of winners and not the prizes. 1              Nancy Bosket 2              Lyn Eddy 3              Dan Norton 4              Tom Nicholson 5               Lori Coffindaffer 6              Ed Garrick 7              […]

Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) – A 21-year-old woman says she was prepared but terrified when she told a 2-year-old boy dangling from the third story of a Medford building to let go and she would catch him. He did – and […]

Taking a look at Coast Radio Sports… The Oregon Ducks snapped Kent State’s 21-game win streak yesterday, manufacturing three runs in the seventh inning and then hanging on for a 3-2 victory at PK Park.  The win came after the Golden Flashes came out on top Saturday night 7-6 to […]

Wow.  It really was nothing short of wild… Who knows, maybe it was the sunshine on Friday and Saturday.  Maybe it was the pent-up frustrations of a winter that brought some of the wettest weather to Oregon in recent memory. Or, maybe it was just time to have a party. […]