This Friday, August 22, 2025, join Tillamook County Community Health Centers for Overdose Awareness Day at Blue Heron, Tillamook from 3–7 PMThis community event is a chance to come together, challenge stigma,…
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COMMENTARY: New Nestucca School Board Members Pushed Superintendent Out; Community Shows Support for Wonder Woman Wharton
OIOpublisher By Zackery Smith Let’s hear it for the (mostly) newly elected Nestucca School Board! A BIG congratulations to this new team of caring locals who have just succeeded in their main…
LETTER TO EDITOR: KEEP THE RAILS
North County once had stately churches, schools and hotels. Then so-called improvements replaced vintage construction. Wrecking balls destroyed valuable resources from Bay City to Nehalem. Now an impulse from north county’s youngest…
NEHALEM VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Swappin’ Stories Series Wraps Up in Wheeler on Thursday Aug. 21
The last in Nehalem Valley Historical Society’s series of “Swappin’ Stories” is at the Old Wheeler Hotel on Thursday August 21st at 3:30. Come to tell all of your remembrances of old…
Tillamoook County Housing Commission Announces Game-Changer Boost in Funding
The Tillamook County Housing Commission is very pleased to announce a large boost in funding for housing production in Tillamook County. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, through their low-embodied carbon program, has…
GERRYMANDERIING
Definition: to manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. “a total freedom to gerrymander the results they want” First comes the creation of the…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 8/18/25: Fair, Dry and Warmer Through the Weekend
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Today’s weather picture has a large upper level low pressure area spinning around in the eastern Pacific, northwest of Vancouver Island, with its…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COURTHOUSE CLOSURE AUG. 22
(TILLAMOOK, OR) – The Tillamook County Courthouse will be closed to the public Friday, August 22, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for staff in-service. We apologize for any inconvenience this…
ARDENT GOURMET SMALL BITES: Coffee Girl, Gemütlichkeit
By David & Susan Greenberg Beside the mighty Columbia River, overlooking gargantuan ships circled by tugboats like remoras, Coffee Girl sits within a chamber of what had once been an enormous cannery…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: The Cost of Doing Nothing, Repeatedly
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…