The speaker presentation at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum for tomorrow, February 16th has been cancelled. Our speaker, Adam Davis, is sick. Please note: February 18th to March 4th for maintenance and…
COMMISSIONERS SEEK LIBRARY BOARD MEMBER
The Tillamook County Board of Commissioners is seeking applications for a vacant position on the Library Board. This is a seven-member board that is responsible for the development of library policies and…
Rare Columbia River spruce swamp now conserved by coastal land trust
Much of the original forested floodplain along the Oregon side of the lower Columbia River has long since been logged off and diked for pasture. Blind Slough Swamp Preserve is an exception….
Everything you wanted to know about chocolate but were too busy eating it to ask
By Dana Zia, The Golightly Gourmet “You can deprive the body, but the soul needs chocolate” – Frederick Shilling Oh chocolate, how I love thee! And it seems I am not alone,…
Feb. 14, 1908: A Three Masted square rigged schooner the Emily Reed has shipwrecked on the Oregon Coast
(From newspaper reports … compiled by Don R. Best, Rockaway Beach, OR) TODAY, February 14th, at 1:30 am, one hundred and eleven years ago, “Three Masted square rigged schooner, The Emily Reed…
OP-ED: How I Celebrated My Birthday
By Commissioner Bill Baertlein This year I celebrated my birthday by volunteering at the Homeless Connect. This is an event to count the homeless in our community for a national census of…
Thoughts On Creativity
By Neal Lemery (February 13, 2019) “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they…
POETRY: THE INCREDIBLE PATH OF LOVE
– Virginia Prowell (2-12-2019) Love has it’s beginning at childbirth As a miracle of life is delivered to earth The Mother’s love is immediate and profound A love that will last and…
LOWER NEHALEM WATERSHED COUNCIL BOARD MEETING AND FEBRUARY SPEAKER SERIES FEB. 14
Manzanita, Oregon – On February 14th, the Lower Nehalem Watershed Council is excited to host Troy Abercrombie for his talk “A Marginally Comprehensive Overview of Invasive Weeds Management”. Troy is the Invasive…
Coast Guard rescues two boaters near Tillamook, Netarts Bay
WARRENTON, Ore. — The Coast Guard rescued two recreational boaters in distress near Netarts Bay, located about 5 miles southwest of Tillamook, Wednesday morning. Watch-standers at the Sector Columbia River Command Center…