By Kristine Hayes, Rockaway Beach Chamber Hello Mates as our Pirate Friends would say! Exciting happens at the Rockaway Beach Visitors Information Center & Historic Chamber Caboose and we would love your…
Category: Tourism
What is Universal Design and Universal Access?
OIOpublisher EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tillamook County Pioneer and Sammy’s Place are hosting international disability justice activist Keith Jones May 6th through 11th on the North Oregon Coast Universal Accessibility Tour. Jones is…
Another side to this story … Preserve Property Rights – Vote NO on Clastop County Measure 4-221
This article* from April 1 is incredibly one-sided in favor of taking away people’s existing businesses that they have developed for years. I run an STR out of my own home in…
SALMONBERRY TRAIL PROJECT – A Community Path to Rockaway Beach; Community Information/Listening Session April 26th; SURVEY
The City of Rockaway Beach won funding for the design of a cycling and pedestrian path that would connect Washington St to Neah-Kah-Nie High and Middle Schools. This technical design phase will…
Making Earth Day Every Day – Oregon Coast Visitors Association announces groundbreaking climate mitigation, adaptation and resiliency plan to work on solutions
TILLAMOOK – When people think about industries needing to remake themselves to improve their impact on the environment, not many would automatically picture tourism, but the Oregon Coast Visitors Association is taking…
It’s EARTH DAY – Sat. April 22nd – SOLVE Cleanup Events Throughout County – Manzanita, Nehalem Bay State Park, Rockaway, Netarts
There are Spring Earth Day cleanups and activities happening throughout Tillamook County. Here are the various beach/bay cleanups. REGISTRATION IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED!! Join SOLVE, Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS (www.netartsbaywebs.org), and Tillamook…
Tillamook Coast Visitors Association Updates Tourism Signage Grant Program to Include More Tourism-Related Businesses
Tillamook Coast Visitors Association (TCVA) has $150,000 available in their Tourism Signage Grant program which was established to assist tourism business owners with the cost of upgraded signage. Recent changes to the…
Special Edition April 19, 2023: Brinksmanship* at the County Short Term Rental Committee
*Brinksmanship – practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other. By Jerry…
Op-Ed: Yes, we welcome working together!
Our group, Oregon Coast Hosts, would like to offer the following response to the recent Op/Ed penned by Karen Babbitt published by your publication recently (see link below.*) By Pete Stone, Board…
OP/ED: STRs…Can we really work together?
By Karen Babbitt I’m the STR Committee rep from North County and a full time resident. I’ve lived in the area for 21 years. I’m not opposed to vacation rentals, as we…