Posted: Friday, May 17th, 2013
Rhody Days are here, the 106th Annual Rhododendron Festival, sponsored by the Florence Area Chamber of Commerce. Festival officials are expecting crowds from all over the state to "Come See What We See," the chamber's theme for the town of Florence.
The festival weekend actually started Wednesday with the return of the Davis Shows Northwest Carnival at the Port of ...more
Posted: Friday, May 17th, 2013
The Oregon Library Association (OLA) recently recognized Steve Skidmore, who has been director of Siuslaw Public Library District for the past 16 years, for his successful career in Oregon libraries and his years of outstanding service to the association by awarding him an Honorary Lifetime Membership to OLA.
Skidmore was surprised with the award at the association's annual conference, held ...more
Posted: Friday, May 17th, 2013
A power outage early Friday morning affected homes and businesses in a wide swath from the Siuslaw River Bridge up north to Sea Lion Caves, said Gary Nieborsky, operations manager for Central Lincoln PUD.
Power was out from 4 to about 6:15 a.m.. Residents in the Dunes City area may have also experienced a power bump, said the operations ...more
Posted: Friday, May 17th, 2013
Preserving an important community tradition, 2013 Queen Rhododendra Jade Herbert and members of her junior court paid a visit to the Siuslaw Pioneer Museum to prepare a time capsule of this year's Rhododendron Royal Court for the museum's annual display showcasing the festival's history since 1906.
According to Adele O'Boyle, historian and resident librarian, each year's reigning queen has ...more
Posted: Friday, May 17th, 2013
The Siuslaw News will join area businesses by being closed Memorial Day, Monday, May 27. Deadlines for the following Wednesday's issue, May 29, have advanced to accommodate the shortened work week.
Advertising deadlines for real estate display, display classifieds, legal notices and city and district budgets move to Thursday, May 23, at 5 p.m.
By-the-word classified ad ...more
Modified: Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
The Florence Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that Princess Jade Herbert, a senior at Siuslaw High School, has been crowned 2013 Queen Rhododendra. She is surrounded by her Senior Princess Court, Princess Courtney Rodet and Princess Taysie Savage, both of Mapleton High School. Erin Gustafson and Taylor Winona, not shown, have been named Grand Junior Princesses. Queen ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
He has a following in Japan. A master of design and comedy, a disseminator of facts, Max Klump is not your typical Siuslaw Elementary School student.
His fans are many, and include his fourth-grade teacher, Gina Halpin, who points out her student's work as someone might an errant sketch by Picasso that somehow ended up casually taped to a classroom ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members will begin a door-to-door public outreach campaign on Thursday, May 16.
CERT will be visiting each address in the mapped inundation zone to personally deliver a packet of materials that includes the new Florence Tsunami Evacuation Map and to answer questions for those living or working in the inundation zones.
Teams will also be ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
PeaceHealth Medical Group (PHMG) clinics in Florence recently switched to a new electronic health record (EHR) system.
"Information is power, especially in medicine," said Ron Shearer, MD, medical director and vice president of PHMG-Siuslaw.
"Our new system gives us more powerful tools to effectively help patients better manage their care," added Shearer.
Florence clinics are the first in the PeaceHealth ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
The major changes taking place in Old Town in recent months have taken center stage as far as imposing roadwork and the detours that go along with upheavals in traffic flow. But few who have traveled the city's alternate throughways have missed the work going on on Spruce Street about a block north of Highway 126. It's a small portion ...more
Posted: Friday, May 10th, 2013
After running a very low-key campaign, Siuslaw School District board members have been pounding the pavement, visiting civic groups and other organizations, to spread word that the school local option levy, Measure 20-215, on the May 21 ballot needs the community's support.
A "yes" vote approves renewal of the current levy, which expires July 2014, at the same rate, 75 ...more
Florence police have arrested a local man as the prime suspect in a string of recent burglaries.
Ryan James Aho, 39, of Florence, was stopped May 9 by police for a traffic violation. The officer found stolen property identified from recent burglaries and thefts as well as burglar tools that police say matched those used to break into local businesses.
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Posted: Friday, May 10th, 2013
Voters in the 25-square-mile Mapleton Fire District will decide in the May 21 special election if the district's five-year option levy should be renewed.
Renewal in the form of ballot Measure 20-214 will continue the levy at the current rate, 70 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value.
Carol Baxter, fire district board president, said that without the levy, ...more
Posted: Friday, May 10th, 2013
In the Mapleton area, races for three seats on the school board and three seats on the fire board are uncontested in the May 21 special election.
Two of three candidates for four-year terms on the school board are incumbents, Jeff Hendrickson and Dorman Harry.
Hendrickson is a candidate for Position 1. A Mapleton resident, he is employed in timber ...more
Posted: Friday, May 10th, 2013
There is no looking back, there is only looking forward.
That was the message from City Manager Jacque Betz at the start of the inaugural meeting of the newly formed Florence Events Center Committee early this month. Nine citizens and four city staff members comprise the group that will be delving into new ways to improve the center's financial bottom ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Dunes City and 50 volunteers are ready to take the plunge, as will a group of athletes who plan to swim, bike and run in the Inaugural US Bank Oregon Dunes Triathlon and Duathlon to be held this Saturday in Dunes City.
"I think this has so much potential to become an iconic event that in the future we ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
"Grateful" and "proud" were just some of the words of praise heard Saturday afternoon during Florence Food Share's open house to celebrate 20 years of operation in the emergency food pantry's building on Spruce Street.
When Executive Director Karen Lyn, who has been with Food Share since 1997, spoke of the founders of the nonprofit agency who envisioned a ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Three outstanding senior girls will vie for the title of Queen Rhododendra at a coronation ball and as part of the annual Rhododendron Festival. The ball is being held in conjunction with the Mapleton Senior Prom, on Saturday, May 11.
Last year's reigning queen, Marisha Reavis, will return to announce the winner and crown this year's queen.
The 2013 Senior ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Early Saturday morning, May 4, Siuslaw Valley Fire and Rescue responded to a call for firefighters, which they thought might be an illegal burn. But when the teams arrived, they found a complex series of accidents and a vacant house on fire.
Two excavators were on the property preparing to clear around the house near milepost 193 on Highway 101. ...more
Posted: Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Local electric utility district Central Lincoln has received multiple reports from customers who have received telephone calls from scammers who claim to represent Central Lincoln. In the scam, the caller tells the customer that his or her bill is past due, and electricity will be shut off unless they pay an overdue bill immediately using a credit or debit ...more
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