On Sunday, August 29, 2021, 3:30 pm – Fire crews were fighting a small wildfire near the South Jetty of Nehalem Bay in the Nedonna Beach area. Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office Rockaway…
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TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Gordon’s Update – Weather & COVID-19 – 8/30/21
OIOpublisher By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Management August 30, 2021, 11:30am Weather An upper level low pressure area over British Columbia is causing the winds aloft to be from the southwest. …
Sitka Center Youth Arts Program – Summer Workshops “What We Do Matters!” Combine Science, Art, Outdoors & More
By Leeauna Perry, Youth Program Coordinator, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology OTIS, OR – August 13, 2021 – Beginning in early July nearly 110 Pre-K through 8th grade students engaged in…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: COVID-19 Report Aug. 27th – One week totals -180 cases, 7 deaths
Since the beginning of August, 585 new COVID-19 cases have occurred in Tillamook County; 180 of those cases were from this past week (Aug 15 -21) with a test positivity rate of…
Shooting Incident Suspects Arrested in Tillamook
(Tillamook, OR, August 27, 2021 – 10:30 am) Yesterday, August 26, 2021, Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office Deputies, Officers from Tillamook Police Department (TPD) and Oregon State Police (OSP) responded to a residence…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: Gordon’s Update – Weather & COVID-19 Testing, Vaccines 8/26/21
By Gordon McCraw, Tillamook County Emergency Manager Thursday, August 26, 2021,10 am Weather Well, we had a few hundredths of an inch of rain yesterday associated with a weak front that went through and today we…
Emergency Volunteer Corps of Nehalem Bay: COVID-19 MESSAGE TO OUR NEHALEM BAY COMMUNITIES
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing rapidly in Tillamook County, specifically the much more contagious Delta variant. In July, we celebrated the decline in Covid cases after more than a year. We…
Governor Announces Statewide Outdoor Mask Requirements
With COVID-19 rapidly spreading, masks help stop spread of the Delta variant (Salem, OR) — Governor Kate Brown today announced new statewide outdoor mask requirements to help stop the spread of the highly contagious…
Tillamook County COVID-19 Response: FIVE New COVID-19 Deaths in Tillamook County; County to Bring in Mobile Morgue as Local Funeral Home Runs Out of Space; County Death Toll at Eleven
EDITOR’S NOTE – From over 3 hours of meetings, the Community Leadership meeting and an Emergency Board of Commissioners meeting today: It is truly the worst of times … by the numbers…
How Does That Criminal Justice System Work? Criminal Law 101
EDITOR’S NOTE: As part of our on-going series about crime in our community (see link to Crime Wave in Tillamook County below), the Sheriff’s Office and local police officers are often confronted…