By Gordon McCraw Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 10:00am Weather The active weather pattern just keeps on hanging on this spring. Today there is a low pressure area moving northeastward towards the central…
Category: Guest Column
PART 2 Law Enforcement & Opponents – Ballot Measure 29-161: “Should Tillamook County officials be prevented from enforcing most state, federal and local firearm regulations?”
by Neal Lemery In this second part of the Pioneer’s look at a county-wide measure on the May ballot, we hear from local law enforcement and the organized opponents of the…
NEWS UPDATE FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Fishing and the Blue Economy
By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 Just a few days ago I took part in a panel discussion to consider opportunities and options in the emerging Blue Economy. According to the World…
Revising an Old Family Story
by Neal Lemery “We are collections of stories, we are vast houses in which stories come and go, and if we don’t listen for them, and savor them, and carry them in…
RENDERINGS & RAMBLINGS: Hall Mansion, Wrap Up
By Charles McLaughlin I need to back up a little bit to complete my story concerning Grandma Pettye. The last time I saw or spoke to her was in 1945 while she…
KITCHEN MAVEN: Let My People Go – Passover Recipes
This article was originally published in 2019 in the Tillamook County Pioneer. With Passover, Easter and Ramadan celebrations at hand, and with so much divisiveness and separatist politics in the world, it…
BOOK REVIEW: I Never Thought of It That Way
By Jim Heffernan Monica Guzman is an Hispanic journalist from Seattle. She lives in a part of Seattle where only 8 out of a thousand can be rated as “conservative”. She is…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY DAILY WEATHER BRIEFING: Gordon’s Update – 4/12/22
By Gordon McCraw Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 08:30am The satellite picture is showing a pretty much stationary upper level low pressure area just west of Vancouver Island this morning and this is…
NEWS FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE DAVID GOMBERG: Taxes, Spending & Rising Income
By State Representative David Gomberg I received a text recently from my accountant. He was in his office at seven in the morning. That’s not unusual. But it was also on a…
RENDERINGS & RAMBLINGS: War Stories, Mysteries & More
By Charles McLaughlin In 1944 at the age of 16, I joined the Merchant Marines, received training at Catalina Island off the shores of Southern California and then shipped out for the…
