Ordinance 82 was approved by voters November 7th and bans the use of tobacco products on all County-owned properties, with one exemption and according to the definition of ‘Tillamook County property’ as…
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Coast Guard Cutter Alert returns after 73-day counter-smuggling patrol
OIOpublisher ASTORIA, Ore. — Coast Guard Cutter Alert returned to its homeport of Astoria Monday after a 73-day, counter-smuggling deployment in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Alert completed a 13,740-mile patrol as a…
Highway 101/6 Project Update – 11/7/17
By Sierra Lauder, Director of Events and Downtown Development, Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce The cold but dry weather has been very helpful for all of the excavation work that has been…
Highway 101/6 Project Update – 10/31/17
By Sierra Lauder, Director of Events and Downtown Development, Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce Happy Halloween! As I type, chaos is unfolding in front of the Chamber office in the form of…
Tillamook Families Celebrate Local Agriculture During Farm to School Month
Over 50 Tillamook County families celebrated National Farm to School Month this October by attending Local Food Open Houses and meeting local farmers, fishers and food producers. National Farm to School Month…
EDITORIAL: Have you voted yet? What there’s an election?
By Laura Swanson, editor, Tillamook County Pioneer Member, Housing Task Force There aren’t any “big” national positions vying for our attention, in fact, there are only two issues on our local Tillamook…
October 21-22, 2017 – Flooding in Tillamook
Thank you Jenny Bocko for the photos. Sunday morning in and around Tillamook — overflowing rivers and flooding throughout the area. The US National Weather service 24 hour rainfall totals from different…
Highway 101/6 Project Update – 10/11/17
By Sierra Lauder, Director of Events and Downtown Development, Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce “Weather dependent” was the most used phrase at this week’s Highway Project meeting. Almost all aspects of the…
Hunter Struck in Leg by Target Shooter Off Hwy. 6
On Friday, October 13, 2017 at approximately 6:00pm, Tillamook 911 received a call from a subject advising he had been shot in the leg in an area about 5 miles up Kansas…
Forum Presented Monday Oct. 16th on Construction Excise Referendum at TBCC, 7 pm
The American Association of University Women Tillamook Branch and the Headlight Herald will co-host a forum to present both support and opposition of Referendum 29-152. The question on the November 7, 2017…