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…
Category: Tourism
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…
No April Fool’s Joke – Alderbrook Re-Opens for Golf April 1st – VIDEO
Story, Video & Photos by Don Backman “At 8:20 we’ll have the ceremonial swing,” Pat Zweifel said. “I would do it, but I haven’t actually swung a golf club before,” he joked…
Clatsop County residents fight for public’s right to vote as vacation rental industry seeks to block local election; Petitioners of Measure 4-221 filed a motion to intervene today on a case brought against Clatsop County
Astoria, Ore.—Petitioners on a Clatsop County ballot measure to protect homes in rural neighborhoods from being converted to vacation rentals today filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought against the…
Short Term Rental Industry Blatantly Breaking Oregon Campaign Finance Laws; Opponents of a citizen initiative to preserve residential housing stock in Clatsop County ignored multiple campaign finance rules
EDITOR’S NOTE: There is an initiative on Clatsop County’s ballot – Measure 4-221 – to phase out short-term rentals in unincorporated Clatsop County. For more about the Measure, see links below. Astoria,…
Winter Waters Gets Oregon-Grown Seaweed Onto Local Menus; Event Finale at The Salmonberry in Wheeler April 2nd
A series of dining events in Portland and along the Oregon Coast put sea vegetables front and center, shining a light on bottlenecks and opportunities for Oregon’s seafare supply chain. In February,…
