By Representative David Gomberg, House District 10 1/20/2025 Dear Friends and Neighbors, As I detailed last week, the Oregon legislature convened last Monday to begin the six-month 2025 session which will consider…
GORDON’S WEEKLY WEATHER UPDATE 1/20/25: Cold Temperatures Continue; Slight Chance of Rain Thursday
By Gordon McCraw, Meteorologist for the Tillamook County Pioneer A lot of stuff happened today, officially it’s a holiday, Martin Luther King Day, and we had a new President sworn in this…
BOOK REVIEW: Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King; Join Jim for a Virtual MLK Event Tomorrow Jan. 20th
By Jim Heffernan I find it a mind-crushing collision of lightness and darkness that Donald Trump’s inauguration and Martin Luther King’s birthday are happening on the same day. It’s a dissonance that…
THE OCEANSIDER: Commissioner Fournier Clarifies Suggestion for County Paid-Parking Structure in Oceanside; Short Beach Closed Due to Active Landslide
By Jerry Keene, Editor, The Oceansider As promised in last week’s Oceansider, we requested an interview with newly elected County Commissioner Paul Fournier to explore his reported interest in constructing a TLT-funded paid-parking structure in Oceanside. Fournier promptly responded…
Manzanita Water Controversy Spills Over To City Hall Project
By Randy Kugler The City has assured us that charges for staff administrative support services are based on their model that “allocates administrative overhead to each fund or department.” All City Funds…
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: COLD WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 10PM SUNDAY, JAN. 19 to 10AM MONDAY JAN. 20
URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Portland OR 305 PM PST Sat Jan 18 2025 …COLD WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM SUNDAY TO 10 AM PST MONDAY… * WHAT…Apparent…
Space Just Got a Little Closer
There’s a world beyond our own, and to better understand it, we must explore it. For the better part of a decade, several companies have been developing technologies to explore the universe…
BOOK REVIEW: Fire Weather – On the Front Lines of a Burning World by John Vaillant
By Jim Heffernan The Los Angeles wildfires in January is what drew me to this book from last year. It may have started out as a dutiful trek in search of information,…
NO against the 50% tax increase
To whom it may concern, As a local to the PNW and owner of a short-term rental in unincorporated Tillamook, I strongly believe that implementing a 50% increase in transient taxes would…
CIVIC SATURDAYS WITH JIM HEFFERNAN: Sermon #2 – PRESENT AT THE CREATION; Join Jim Saturday for Sermon #3 (Links below)
Join us at 10am tomorrow, Saturday January 18th at 10am for the third “sermon” from Eric Liu for Tillamook County’s version of “Civic Saturdays” with Jim Heffernan hosting. The sermons explore new…