Guest Column by Randy Kugler At the January 8th Manzanita Workshop and City Council meeting, the Mayor solicited suggestions from citizens as to next steps on the City Hall project for the…
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OP/ED: Another View of the Linn County Lawsuit
OIOpublisher By Craig Mackie Recently, the Linn County jury determined that the State had indeed breached a long-standing contract with the 13 plaintiff forest trust counties. As Mr. Yamamoto wrote in his…
POEM: Another Decade
By Virginia Carrell Prowell 10 years has passed us by! Looking back, we come to realize All the events that have affected our lives. Loved ones have gone to the Great Beyond…
Op/Ed: An Example of Bad Taste And Worse …
EDITOR’S NOTE: And worse … the image is on the front page. After a request from the victim’s husband to remove the image from social media, and a huge outcry from the…
GAM Weather: Tillamook Area Weather – Tuesday, Jan. 14th
The showery pattern continues tomorrow, Tuesday January 14th and the temperatures will be even slower to rise with daytime heating so it is possible the lowlands could see 1”-2” of snow with…
GAM WEATHER: Tillamook’s Forecast – January 13th
By Gordon McCraw, GAM Weather Monday’s Weather – January 13th: The next cold front with modified Arctic air has become stationary up in Washington. This is keeping the accumulating snow up around…
Gordon’s Tillamook Weather Center – Sunday, Jan. 12th
By Gordon McCraw, GAM Weather Sunday’s Weather: Look for showers today, a slight chance of thunderstorms or small hail, breezy westerly winds 20-25 gusting to 40, gusts to 50 possible at the…
Op/Ed: Our forests’ future depends on our working together
By Peter Hayes Hayes and his family own and care for Hyla Woods in the Oregon Coast Range. Hayes served on the Oregon Board of Forestry from 2007 to 2011. For how…
POEM: The BI-POLAR Child of Nature
EDITOR’S NOTE: Our favorite Pioneer poet Virginia Prowell sent me this poem she wrote nearly 9 years ago and as the recent rising waters reminded her of her past ruminations about the…
Tillamook Area Forecast: Tuesday Jan. 7 – Saturday Jan. 11 – More Rain, High Tides and Snow Level Dropping this Weekend
By Gordon McCraw, GAM Weather Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:00am The never-ending line of weather systems continue to bring rain to the Pacific Northwest. The last system pushed the rivers up, the…