With the ocean as a backdrop, the Rockaway Beach Music Festival is bringing the cool vibes this summer with a free, two-day long music festival hosted at the Rockaway Beach Wayside August…
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TILLAMOOK COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS – ROAD CLOSURES: NETARTS, BAYVIEW AVE. JULY 23-24; TILLAMOOK, MAROLF LOOP & BROOKFIELD AVE. – July 23-24
OIOpublisher Sealcoating by Rex Olson Paving Company will be taking place on the south 300 ft of Bayview Ave. in Netarts tomorrow, Wednesday July 23, 2025, beginning in the late morning thru…
On Immigration
Dear Tillamook, I spent 10 years attending a private Christian school. Among the ideologies we were taught was the understanding that we were a great country precisely because of immigrants. I understood…
Governor Calls for Special Session Aug. 29th to Address Transportation System Emergency
Legislature will return to Salem next month to restore essential transportation services and staff Salem, OR — Governor Tina Kotek announced today that she is using her constitutional authority to call a special session…
Big Changes Ahead for North County Food Bank – New Location Coming Soon
North County Food Bank will end service at their current location on September 30. We must vacate the building so Nehalem Bay Health District can start the process of tearing it down. We…
I’ve been thinking … Real Politics, Follow the Money
By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot about what passes for politics these days. It’s nothing like the contests I remember between Eisenhower and Stevenson or Johnson and Goldwater. We certainly…
IN GOOD HEALTH: Not just hot flashes – What every woman should know about the perimenopause transition
By Leanna Coy, FNP Menopause care is booming right now. This is great news after more than two decades of women in menopause not getting the care they needed. Twenty years ago,…
A PERSONAL POINT OF PRIVILEGE: We the People… Unless You’re the Wrong People
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s an installment from Tillamook County’s State Representative Cyrus Javadi’s Substack blog, “A Point of Personal Privilege” Oregon legislator and local dentist. Representing District 32, a focus on practical policies…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Stay Fire Safe and Drive Carefully
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 7/21/2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, We will soon observe a sad anniversary. Five years ago next month, fires raged across Oregon, forever changing communities and…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 7/21/25: Summer continues, warmer first half of week, average temperatures rest of week, weekend
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer We had a weak upper level disturbance move through overnight that did little except increase the cloudiness that persisted most of today. It…