News Release from Oregon State Police Posted on FlashAlert: May 9th, 2017 6:50 PM On May 9, 2017 at 2:35 PM OSP Troopers and emergency workers responded to a two commercial motor…
Category: Government
ON THE BALLOT: Enhanced Sheriff’s Patrol for Pacific City and Neskowin Water Districts
By April Bailey, for the Tillamook County Pioneer Shall a law enforcement district be formed with permanent tax rate of $.58 per $1000 assessed value beginning in FY 2017-18? This is the…
Major Development Proposed for Manzanita
By David Dillon, North County News A Carlton, Oregon-based developer with ties to north Tillamook County is proposing to build a new residential community of between 280 and 320 cabins, cottages, or…
Highway 101/6 Project Update Tillamook Area Chamber of Commerce – May 3, 2017
The project crews continue to push six and seven days a week in an effort to keep the progress steaming forward. The buff-colored decorative concrete is set to be poured tomorrow…
Because I’m All About That Bond!
It’s not every day that someone offers you $1.93 million in free money! But that’s just what happened to our schools. Tillamook School District has been offered $1.93 million (and maybe as…
Letter to the Editor: Merrianne Hoffman for Tillamook County Transportation Board
I was a little surprised when I saw who was running for the Tillamook County Transportation Board Position #5. I was on the board of that organization when it chose not to…
Contaminated groundwater issue causes short term delay in downtown project; Additional lanes to open after Memorial Day; project is still on schedule to be completed by late 2018
TILLAMOOK— A goal to open two lanes of U.S. 101 in both directions by Memorial Day will be delayed until later this summer because of a significant amount of contaminated groundwater that…
“What we want from the Wild” Community Conversation at Tillamook Forest Center May 7th
The Tillamook Forest Center will hold a free public event on May 7, hosting Oregon Humanities’ statewide Conversation Project. “What We Want from the Wild,” is a conversation with Oregon Humanities Executive…
Why I Love the Library
by Neal Lemery My hometown library and I go way back. We are best friends. One of my earliest memories was going with my mom to the “old” library, before…