Award-winning, modern blues legends, Rick Estrin & The Nightcats – two-time winners of the prestigious Blues Music Award for Band Of The Year – currently celebrating the release of their long-awaited new…
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I’VE BEEN THINKING … Hope and the News
OIOpublisher By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “the news” and hope. I’ve been talking to people, and I often find we have very different opinions. When I ask…
Monday Musical Club of Tillamook High School Award Competition Results
The Monday Musical Club of Tillamook held its annual High School Junior-Senior Award Competition May 19th at St. John’s United Church of Christ. Three Tillamook County young musicians performed for the three…
CAPE KIWANDA PARKING LOT PARTIAL OPENING BY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND – FREE PARKING SOUTH OF DORYMEN’S WAY TO OPEN MAY 24th
The Cape Kiwanda Lot south of Dorymen’s Way to open May 24th, and free to park! (TILLAMOOK, OR. May, 2024) The month of May presented the project team with great weather for…
North Tillamook Library Friends Annual Library Friends Book Sale Memorial Weekend Sat. May 25th
The popular North Tillamook Library Friends (NTLF) Book Sale returns to Manzanita on Memorial Weekend with more than 6,000 gently used books, including fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books. The sale starts Friday,…
UNITED PAWS CATS OF THE WEEK: Meet Margot & Muffin
Muffin and Margot have been together for three years and are bonded. They are well loved by their family, but they need to be rehomed since one of the children has developed…
GORDON’S WEATHER UPDATE – 5/20/24: Spring weather continues through holiday weekend
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer We saw a few showers over the weekend that were good for the gardens. Now today we see a ridge of high pressure…
Celebrating the Search: SETI Institute’s 2024 Drake Awards Illuminate the Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The SETI Institute’s 2024 Drake Awards ceremony took place last Thursday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, honoring significant contributions to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This event brought…
WORDS OF WISDOM: Escaping into the Quiet
By Neal Lemery Like other photographers, I was excited about the Northern Lights being visible in Oregon. I’d missed the first night, but I was ready the second night. I carefully set…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hooray for WEBS and TSD9 – Growing Future Scientists!
I was lucky enough to chaperone my 6th grader’s Alternative Energy field trip this month to Cape Lookout State Park hosted by Friends of Netarts Bay Watershed, Estuary, Beach and Sea (WEBS)….