Photos & Video By Don Backman The rain held off and the wind was calm as the dozens welcomed 2025 at Cape Lookout State Park beach at the YMCA Polar Plunge. Safety…
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Great Opportunities to Give Back – SOLVE Beach Cleanup Sat. Sept. 21st & Cape Lookout Stewardship Day Sun. Sept. 22
OIOpublisher This is a friendly reminder: If you have been looking for a chance to give back and make a difference, here are two great opportunities. Join Friends of Netarts Bay for…
Una Celebracion de Huehca Omeyocan: Ofrenda a nuestro oceano sanador, An Offering to our Healing Ocean 10th Year of Annual Event, Aug. 4, 2024 at Cape Lookout State Park
EDITOR’S NOTE: Don Backman and I have worked together for a few years now and have a routine about upcoming events, he’ll call or text – “What’s happening this weekend?” and I’ll…
FRIENDS OF NETARTS BAY WEBS: BAY STEWARDSHIP DAY – WEDNESDAY, JULY 10TH
Bay Stewardship Days offer opportunities to give back and work to maintain our natural areas and restore healthy coastal landscapes. Lend a hand clearing weeds and invasive ivy from recent plantings established…
STEWARDSHIP DAY – Winter Planting Event at Cape Lookout State Park Feb. 6
Help revitalize the campground at Cape Lookout State Park with Oregon State Parks and Friends of Netarts Bay WEBS. We are looking for volunteers to help us plant native vegetation in and…
Hundreds Greeted New Year with Polar Plunge – Manzanita & Cape Lookout Events 1/1/24 – VIDEOS
Ten days into the new year and we are anticipating the arrival of the “polar vortex” – artic air that will bring frigid temperatures and the possibility of snow down to sea…
NEW YEARS DAY POLAR PLUNGES: Neah-Kah-Nie Beach & Cape Lookout Beach Jan. 1
It’s Polar Plunge time – New Years Day in North County and South County. The weather forecast for New Years Day calls for partly cloudy skies, calm winds and a high of…
Governor Kotek Visits Tillamook, Clatsop Counties on One Oregon Listening Tour June 8-9
By Laura Swanson Stops 14 and 15 included visits to Astoria, Seaside, and Tillamook Tillamook, OR — On June 8th and 9th, Tillamook and Clatsop counties took their turns on the “One…
TILLAMOOK PUD: 2023 SOUTH TILLAMOOK COUNTY VOLTAGE CONVERSION PROJECT
Tillamook PUD is beginning the South Tillamook County Voltage Conversion Project on Tuesday, June 6. Voltage adjustment improves the efficiency in which electricity is delivered, minimizes power loss, and helps provide alternate…
Marine Debris Surveyors: 5th & 6th grade class from Tillamook’s East School surveys Cape Lookout Beach
Story, Photos & Vidoe By Don Backman “This is real science,” Denise Harrington, retired Tillamook teacher now National Oceanic and Atmospheric Teacher at Sea Fellow (TASAA fellowship) for the National Marine Sanctuary…