By Scott Gordon for Friends of Tillamook Bay As thousands of us get excited and gear up for the height of the fall salmon season, we should take a moment to question:…
Category: Op-Ed
ROCKAWAY BEACH CANDIDATES FORUMS: Timeline, Facts, Official Forums to be held Oct. 11 (Mayoral Candidates) & Oct. 16 (City Council Candidates)
OIOpublisher EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tillamook County Pioneer is sponsoring two candidates forums for Rockaway Beach, to ensure all candidates (or most of the candidates) could attend and due to the number of…
LETTER TO EDITOR: Five Lessons from a Banned Book …
“It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It’s the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear…
ENDORSEMENT FOR MARY LEVERETTE, WHEELER CITY COUNCIL
I am happily endorsing Mary Leverette for Wheeler City Council. Her intelligence and enthusiasm will be a welcome addition to the council. She has attended nearly every council meeting and has a…
A different take on water billing in Manzanita….
Ordinances are amended or replaced over time to reflect changes. Manzanita is getting ready to reevaluate its Comp Plan and there will be Ordinances that will be rewritten, updated, amended. This is…
OP/ED: Let’s have a real discussion on Manzanita water rates and the Referendum
By Randy Kugler A recent post (on social media) that attempts to portray my position as City Manager of Philomath on monthly water meter readings as being inconsistent in light of my…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY UNITED AGAINST BOOK BANS: Letters Continue to School Board, Request for Reversal Not on TSD#9 School Board Agenda
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 the…
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 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…
LETTER TO EDITOR: Book Banning in Tillamook
As a writer and long-time high school English teacher, I find myself deeply troubled by the Tillamook School Board’s decision to ban the lovely novel “How The Garcia Girls Lost their Accents”…