EDITOR’S NOTE: For the next few weeks, we will be sharing entries from Old Tillamook Times, provided by Sandi Burgess Botten Dean, featuring Karen Kranweiss Nudelman’s blog in which she describes the…
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TILLAMOOK COUNTY UNITED AGAINST BOOK BANS: Letters Continue to School Board, Request for Reversal Not on TSD#9 School Board Agenda
OIOpublisher EDITOR’S NOTE: The letters continue to come in, and more community members sign up united against book bans. The Tillamook School District Board did not have the book ban reversal on…
OP/ED: City of Manzanita Water Rates – Business as Usual?
By Randy Kugler The City will hold a workshop on September 11 at 2 pm to discuss what new quarterly water rates will be should voters approve the November Referendum to return to quarterly…
Tillamook PUD Inspection and Treatment of Wood Power Poles Program
(September 9, 2024) – Tillamook PUD has contracted with National Wood Treating Co. to perform detailed inspections and treatments on wood power poles throughout the Tillamook PUD electric system. The power poles…
CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS: ROUND 2 – Level Up Pitch Contests – Opportunity for Businesses in Tillamook County
Do you have an idea for the next great business in Tillamook County? Is your current business ready to launch a new product or service? This is your chance to pitch your…
GEEZER TRIBE: Obits should be required reading
By Linda Shaffer OK, I admit to being a newspaper person for most of my life which means I want to shorten the word obituary to obit. Either way it’s a derivative…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 9/9/24: Change of Seasons, Some Sun, Some Rain
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer Some good news for a change, the smoke is now getting pushed over into the Cascades as a mainly zonal, or west to…
TILLAMOOK PEOPLE’S UTILITY DISTRICT September 2024 Meetings
The Tillamook People’s Utility District Board of Directors will be attending the following out-of-district trade association meetings: September 4, 2024, Public Power Council Members Forum 3:00 p.m. Location: Portland, OR September…
TILLAMOOK SCHOOL BOARD – Book Ban Process Flawed from Beginning, Every Step; TSD#9 School Board Meeting Monday Sept. 9th
SEVEN…that’s the number of women who have disclosed to me their story of sexual assault/abuse in the last few weeks. No, I don’t work in the medical or legal field. I don’t…
I’ve been thinking … Book Burning Impulse
By Jim Heffernan I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the impulse that leads to the banning of books. I always thought our little green corner would be immune. I was wrong….