This season, do yourself, your family, and the Coast Guard a favor. Practice safe storm-watching. Pay attention to your children and pets. Smaller bodies succumb to the cold faster than larger adults….
It Feels Good to Feel Good – What thirty years of teaching fitness taught me about movement, motivation and Physical Intelligence
By Michelle Jenck, M.Ed. – Founder, the PQ Initiative I have been a fitness instructor for nearly thirty years. For six of those years, I taught college students who were taking my…
Razor clams are closed on the coast – almost all other shellfish is open
Razor clams are closed on the whole Oregon coast. Everything else a Tillamook digger usually wants is open, with one date coming up fast on ocean crab. The Oregon Department of Agriculture…
Get Ready to Vote – Tillamook County Elections 2026
Tillamook County general elections take place this Nov. 3, 2026. Here’s what you need to know before you vote. The county clerk’s proof ballot includes 31 contests and 52 filed candidates, and…
NORTH OREGON COAST SYMPHONY CLASSICAL ENSEMBLES CONCERT OCT. 10
After overwhelming success last year, the North Oregon Coast Symphony will once again present a concert of small ensembles performing classical music at St. Catherine Episcopal Church in Nehalem.Queentet—a string quartet…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY PIONEER’S QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES, GENERAL ELECTION NOV. 3, 2026: Bay City Mayor & City Council Positions
The Tillamook County Pioneer provides readers with expanded election coverage – Questions for the Candidates – gives our communities an introduction to the candidates and an unbiased view to compare the candidates…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Getting Over Myself
By Butch Freedman I was having a hard time last week. Some kind of cold or flu bug had me coughing and hacking, felt chilled, then overheated, then chilled again. You…
THE VIEW FROM HERE: In-Between
By Deb Montgomery Years ago when I was playing with my first band in Toronto, I wrote a song called Inbetween. It was a slow build in the verses describing what…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 10/5/26: More of the same for tomorrow, then things improve until later this week
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Here we are into the first week of October already. First, let’s review a few of the numbers for September. The warmest…
Tillamook Family Counseling Center’s developmental disabilities program helps families find services
For a family trying to find services for a child or an adult with a developmental disability, the list of local, regional, and state programs is long, and it is not always…