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Hall of Fame: Eric Daniel The list of Siuslaw Hall of Fame inductees continues to be released. Eric Daniel is the latest to be recognized. Daniel was a Vaulter, tossed the javelin, ran cross country and played basketball for the Vikings. In the bio submitted by Siuslaw Athletic Director Chris […]
Stamp Out Hunger In two days, local letter carriers will be collecting food from local residents as part of their Stamp out Hunger initiative. This year marks the 31st year that the US Postal service has been collecting food. Here in Florence there are more than 500 families that suffer […]
Athlete of the Week The Sports Club, the Siuslaw News and Coast Radio Sports congratulate junior Mapleton Track and field’s Alex Burnett as this week’s athlete of the week. Alex tossed the javelin 125’8” for a first place finish at last week’s McKenzie End of Season tournament which is just […]
Heceta Beach Road Flooding The underlying cause of flooding on Heceta Beach Road near Rhododendron Drive has not been officially noted, but Public Works Director Mike Miller says they believe it was possibly a beaver dam or some restricting dike that gave way. What he did say is that we […]
Welcome to Our Town for May 2024 State Senator Dick Anderson recaps the regular legislative session that end in March with Bob Sneddon. Part I: File was too large! Here’s part II of Senator Anderson Georg Henry visited with retired chef Graham Ross and Vanessa Buss about a new culinary […]
Siuslaw Track and Field Wesley Nicholls was the top finisher in the 200 meters at the Wally Ciochetti invitational on Friday. Nicholls finished 4th. he place a little higher in the 400 meter race at third. Dylan Jensen and Derrick Vanduch finished 4th and 5th respectively in the 800 meters. […]
Proposed Property Sale At this evening’s Florence City Council Meeting the council will consider a sale of a portion of city property located to the Northwest of the Justice Center on 9th street. The two tax lots make up approximately 1.48 acres. The property has been deemed as surplus property […]
Viking Baseball It was a tough day on the mound for Siuslaw yesterday as they hosted the Sisters Outlaws. In game on the Vikings gave up five runs in one inning and that was all the Outlaws would need – holding the Vikings to just 2 runs. Game two saw […]
