UPDATE: FULL FIRE BURNING BAN TILLAMOOK COUNTY As of noon September 7, 2020, there is a full burn ban in effect, this includes all campfires. This ban will include all State Parks…
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TILLAMOOK WORKS: Internship Opportunity for Local Students Helps Create ‘Build-your-own’ Workforce
A brand-new internship opportunity for high school and college students is helping local businesses meet short- and long-term workforce needs and giving students hands-on work experience. Tillamook Works is a career readiness…
It’s Pesticide Season in Tillamook County
By Nancy Webster, North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection When will our “Dark Waters” be filmed? For those who have seen that 2019 movie, which covered DuPont Chemical Company knowingly dumping industrial…
Short Sands (Oswald West State Park) the morning after… #TakingBackOurParks Solutions for Curbing Visitor Invasion — CALL TO ACTION: Email to Travel Oregon, Oregon Coast Visitors Association, Visit Tillamook Coast
By Laura Swanson & Julie Chick for the Tillamook County Pioneer From Julie Chick: I wanted to get a first hand look at Short Sands after a day like yesterday (Saturday August…
Art Accelerated distributes art supply kits to county youth; ArtWalk Saturday August 22nd
Knowing that art enriches lives, Art Accelerated, local non-profit art organization, through GoKids grant funding, assembled and distributed art supply kits to 200 youth county-wide. Kits include an assortment of papers and…
$1 million grant awarded to address opioid and substance use disorders in Tillamook County
Northwest Medical Foundation of Tillamook, known locally with the business name of Adventist Health Tillamook, has been awarded a $1 million rural communities opioid response program-implementation (RCORP-I) grant from the Health Resources…
$25.9 Million Available to Oregon Cultural Nonprofits for Covid-19 Relief
Funds allocated to the Oregon Cultural Trust (OCT) will be available to Oregon cultural organizations facing losses due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The $25.9 million in funding was made available through…
Lower Columbia Hispanic Council Now Known as “Consejo Hispano”
Somos Consejo Hispano. We are Consejo Hispano On August 3rd, the Lower Columbia Hispanic Council (LCHC), the culturally-centered nonprofit organization headquartered in Astoria, OR, unveiled its rebranding, marking a new chapter for…
NOAA AWARDS THE SALMON SUPERHWY $1.24 MILLION IN FUNDING
TILLAMOOK, Ore. — On the heels of six years of proven success, the Salmon SuperHwy has received the second year of funding of a $1.24 million total award from the National Oceanic…
Portland Political Elites Overrule Local Union Endorsement
(Provided by Suzanne Weber for State Representative campaign) Fewer than twenty-four hours after the Astoria-based North Coast Labor Federation (NCLF) endorsed Suzanne Weber’s campaign for the Oregon Legislature, Portland political leaders from…