The old sayings goes: “You win some and you lose some.” With regard to the local election results, we won one, we lost one, but we gained a lot even where we…
Category: Op-Ed
LETTER TO COMMUNITY: Thanksgiving Food Baskets, Holiday Gifts for Children – Resources for Giving
Dear Folks, Thanksgiving and Christmas Food Baskets are being done by the Rockaway Beach Lions Club. If you would like to help them buy foods for one or both of these…
Take Me Out to the Ball Game – Another Perspective
By Virginia Prowell This year’s Baseball World Series is now over. The Houston Astros are the winners. Although I don’t pay much attention to baseball the rest of the year, there is…
Opinion: Take me out to the ball game
by Victoria Stoppiello Just as the Astro’s center fielder, George Springer went up for the ball, the screen went black. “I’m not watching that, I’m not watching them jumpin’ around, celebrating.” My…
OP/ED: SEDIMENTATION BRAIN FREEZE
By Gus Meyer, Tillamook Tillamook County’s Coastal range of mountains has a limited prevalence of fluvial plains. (NOTE: fluvial process: The physical interaction of flowing water and the natural channels of mountains…
The Littoral Life: Whatever Floats Your Goat
By Dan Haag As the calendar turned to November, a magical switch flipped and the weather became painfully familiar. Rain and wind kept us inside most of the first few days after…
LETTER TO EDITOR: We Need Housing, Not False Hope.
I will preface this letter by saying that I have no immediate plans to build a home or rental property within Tillamook County. I will also say that I’m about as liberal…
Letter to the Editor — Please support the “Construction Excise Tax”
I have given the issue of affordable housing in Tillamook County considerable thought and investigation. I participated in the County’s Housing Task Force and have attended meetings throughout Tillamook County about this…
THINKING THINGS THROUGH: Seeking Inspiration
by Chris Wagner “We must let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell “There are those who are destroyed…
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…
