By Vic Affolter Trump’s August 27th ranking of U.S. presidents provides a revealing contrast with the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey of 154 presidential historians and political science scholars. Trump’s…
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OREGON DEPT. OF FISH & WILDLIFE (ODFW) ACTION NOTICE: Recreational Ocean Salmon South of Cape Falcon Closes to Coho Fishing Sept. 12
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in consultation with the State of Oregon, the Pacific Fishery Management Council, and fishery representatives met today via conference call and have taken the following in-season management…
Manzanita Farmers Market Week 18 – September 11 -Friday 4 to 7 – ONLY 3 MORE MARKETS! VOTE FOR MAYOR OF MUTTZANITA – CATCH THE CANDIDATES ON THE MARKET STAGE AT 5PM TOMORROW!
How can there only be three more markets?? September market vibes are here, and last week was full of moody clouds and rainbows and just a hint of rain in the…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Aging and Memory
By Butch Freedman “Time’s the thief of memory” ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger Let me begin with a very unsurprising confession: my memory is failing. And that’s a frightening fact of…
History of Kilchis Point Reserve talk at South County Library on September 24
The area of Kilchis Point is rich with history. It was the site of one of the largest permanent Native American villages on the Northern Oregon Coast. Tillamook County’s first European…
More Than a Number: How the National Diabetes Prevention Program Can Change Lives
By Galena Flores, Tillamook YMCA Lifestyle Coach & Diabetes Prevention Program Coordinator “You are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.” Those words can be scary. For many people, they are…
Let’s Talk Tillamook: Voting Rights and the SAVE Act – Interview with Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read
A conversation with Oregon Secretary of State, Tobias Read on Voting Rights & the SAVE Act This Q&A is based on an interview by Shaena Peterson with Oregon Secretary of…
MANY THINGS CONSIDERED: America at the Reckoning Point
“No death is so sad and final as the death of an illusion.” – Arthur Koestler By Marc C. Johnson Labor Day, the unofficial start of the political campaign season,…
A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE: Things That Matter
Doorsteps, democracy, and the things politics tends to forget. 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…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 9/8/26: Warm Start to Week, then Cooler, Chance of Rain for Weekend
By Gordon McCraw, Meteoroolgist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Hello, Tillamook, I hope you had a great holiday weekend, even though it was a wet one. It…
