My husband, Steve, and I first purchased “The Cannon Beach Gazette” in the fall of 2006. As an Oregon girl who had been living in the Midwest, I was thrilled with the opportunity to move “home.”
During the summer months library volunteers greet the return of an increasing number of patrons borrowing the latest mysteries by favorite authors, consuming seductive beach reads and combing …
Two weeks ago, I reintroduced myself to the Cannon Beach Chamber following our company’s reacquisition of “The Gazette.”
At The Library: Library elects board members, officers; Schedules Portland novelist and 2 book sales
Speaker programs, discussion groups, a contemporary collection of important books and a busy book-sale room, connect residents and visitors with significant books, important local writers and …
We are at a crossroads in this town. We are well on our way to being simply a destination resort. What does that mean? It means that our local government is most concerned with bringing more a…
The following statement was issued by Anthony Smith, Oregon state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, following yesterday afternoon’s 18-to-11 State Senate passage of…
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Every year, I’m struck by the powerful — and often, opposing — emotions that Memorial Day stirs.
The following statement was issued by Anthony Smith, Oregon state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, following yesterday afternoon’s 18-to-11 State Senate passage of…
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Hello Cannon Beach, I’m Joe Warren the new publisher of the Cannon Beach Gazette. I can’t wait to make the rounds and meet everyone.
Between April and May, programming at the Cannon Beach Library changes noticeably. Soon the crush of tourism will impede the library’s ability to find vacant rooms for visiting authors and ope…
It’s hard to write a farewell column when I’ve only been here four years. That’s less than the lifespan of some razor clams.
That dogs have powerful noses is a well-known fact. The term “sniffari” is endearingly used by some dog lovers to describe the safari-like sniffing excursions that healthy dogs enjoy so much. …
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A couple of weeks ago, my husband misplaced his glasses. His very expensive prescription glasses, I might add, not his cheap drugstore readers. After turning the house upside down a few times …
During the Great Depression, World War II and Korean Conflict, the Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman protected workers, farmers, people of color and average middle-class …
April is National Poetry Month, a celebration introduced in 1996, organized by the Academy of American Poets.
By R.J. Marx
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Years ago, my husband and I were at an event. It was one of those end-of-week things where you steal away for a half hour from whatever you were doing to run in, kiss people on both cheeks, ma…
This column often mentions the important role volunteers play in providing library, information, meeting facilities and programs to Cannon Beach, Arch Cape and other North Coast communities.
I live nine miles from Astoria and eight miles from Seaside. It’s like having a foot in both north and south Clatsop County, and as the publisher of both the Daily Astorian and Seaside Signal,…
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New York City's Strand Book Store was the setting on March 21 for a discussion of the existential challenge facing community newspapers across America. Inspiration for the event came from "Gri…
Diets often don't work well because we haven’t given our brains the exact directions on what we really want. Let me explain, this can change your whole perspective.
By R.J. Marx
Fifty years ago, Eli Saslow’s “Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist” might have been viewed as controversial “New Journalism,” Tom Wolfe’s designation for his own …
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About a year ago I wrote a column for this newspaper where I mentioned the iceberg wedge. The iceberg wedge, in case you’re unaware, is a salad made famous after a formerly unexciting lettuce …
You’re making that dreaded walk from your doctor’s waiting room toward the exam room, hoping against all hope to bypass the scale in the hallway. Have you ever refused to jump on? Many people …
You don’t want to talk about it. You don’t want to think about it. But it's important. If you are over 50, screening for colorectal cancer (cancer of the rectum or colon) is critical. For one …
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A top White House advisor from the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy traveled to coastal Oregon this past week to learn from promising work being done to mitigate the opioid…
At a House Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill, the News Media Alliance debuted a new video, Legislation to Protect Local News, on efforts to protect the future of news publishers and high-…
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The Coast Guard airlifted a hiker stranded on a rock piling at Ecola State Park, Wednesday night.
Two leading marine ecologists say now is the time for scientists to escalate the creation of “scalable solutions” to the ocean’s problems rather than just “documenting the tragedies underway.”
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Single-use plastic bags for groceries, restaurant takeout and other retail items will be a thing of the past, under a bill approved by the Oregon Senate today.
Six people were injured after a pickup truck tumbled down an embankment on Forest Road. Authorities released the names of four people who were involved, identifying another two only as juveniles.
Oregon has the West Coast’s highest rate of vehicle-wildlife collisions, but road trips could soon be safer for both people and animals, thanks to new legislation signed by Gov. Kate Brown.
Many Lincoln City citizens may have noticed the clouds of smoke blanketing the sky east of town on June 4 on the way home from work. The Oregon Department of Forestry discovered that smoke was…
Put it back. That’s the advice you’re likely to hear if you bring a young wild animal home to “take care of it”—and you might get a warning or citation from Oregon State Police, too.
Many Lincoln City citizens may have noticed the clouds of smoke blanketing the sky east of town yesterday on the way home from work. The Oregon Department of Forestry discovered that smoke was…
A state trooper happened to be nearby when a pair of kayakers overturned on the Wilson River this past Thursday, May 30. The emergency was reported to 911 and the Oregon State Police trooper w…
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A Beaverton man is dead after a fatal paragliding crash at the coast.
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The Coast Guard responded to a 738-foot motor vessel which ran aground on the Miller Sands Bar, east of Tongue Point, Sunday.
The Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM), Oregon Fire Service, natural resource agencies, Oregon licensed fireworks wholesalers and safety experts encourage Oregonians to “Keep it Legal and Kee…
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The 'Blue Tide' is upon us, as beaches all along the Oregon Coast are strewn with an aquamarine layer of jelly-like organisms especially apparent at low tide. These are the innumerable bodies …
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Coast Guard crews medically evacuated a 55-year-old man reportedly suffering from a heart attack while captaining a commercial fishing vessel 20 miles west of Tillamook Bay on Thursday.
With wildfire season just around the corner, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is warning it is time to make sure that homes are ready to resist smoke, that people know how to tra…
The Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal (OSFM) recently announced that a Pacific Northwest legend was joining fire prevention activities statewide, particularly in the wildland urban interface…
U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) issued the following statement on the passing of State Sen. Jackie Winters (R-Salem)
A new report from the Oregon Employment Department finds the majority (33,000 or 57 percent) of those job openings were identified by businesses as difficult to fill.
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At the opening of a town hall in Tillamook, Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley donated a flag that was flown over the U.S. Capitol for an upcoming local Memorial Day ceremony.
A 2016 Oregon law allowing pharmacists to write birth control prescriptions is helping more women at risk for unintended pregnancies to use contraception, new research by Oregon State Universi…
The following statement was issued by Anthony Smith, Oregon state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, following yesterday afternoon’s 18-to-11 State Senate passage of…
featured
Every year, I’m struck by the powerful — and often, opposing — emotions that Memorial Day stirs.
The following statement was issued by Anthony Smith, Oregon state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, following yesterday afternoon’s 18-to-11 State Senate passage of…
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Hello Cannon Beach, I’m Joe Warren the new publisher of the Cannon Beach Gazette. I can’t wait to make the rounds and meet everyone.
Between April and May, programming at the Cannon Beach Library changes noticeably. Soon the crush of tourism will impede the library’s ability to find vacant rooms for visiting authors and ope…
It’s hard to write a farewell column when I’ve only been here four years. That’s less than the lifespan of some razor clams.
That dogs have powerful noses is a well-known fact. The term “sniffari” is endearingly used by some dog lovers to describe the safari-like sniffing excursions that healthy dogs enjoy so much. …
featured
A couple of weeks ago, my husband misplaced his glasses. His very expensive prescription glasses, I might add, not his cheap drugstore readers. After turning the house upside down a few times …
During the Great Depression, World War II and Korean Conflict, the Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman protected workers, farmers, people of color and average middle-class …
April is National Poetry Month, a celebration introduced in 1996, organized by the Academy of American Poets.
By R.J. Marx
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Years ago, my husband and I were at an event. It was one of those end-of-week things where you steal away for a half hour from whatever you were doing to run in, kiss people on both cheeks, ma…
This column often mentions the important role volunteers play in providing library, information, meeting facilities and programs to Cannon Beach, Arch Cape and other North Coast communities.
I live nine miles from Astoria and eight miles from Seaside. It’s like having a foot in both north and south Clatsop County, and as the publisher of both the Daily Astorian and Seaside Signal,…
featured
New York City's Strand Book Store was the setting on March 21 for a discussion of the existential challenge facing community newspapers across America. Inspiration for the event came from "Gri…
Diets often don't work well because we haven’t given our brains the exact directions on what we really want. Let me explain, this can change your whole perspective.
By R.J. Marx
Fifty years ago, Eli Saslow’s “Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist” might have been viewed as controversial “New Journalism,” Tom Wolfe’s designation for his own …
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About a year ago I wrote a column for this newspaper where I mentioned the iceberg wedge. The iceberg wedge, in case you’re unaware, is a salad made famous after a formerly unexciting lettuce …
You’re making that dreaded walk from your doctor’s waiting room toward the exam room, hoping against all hope to bypass the scale in the hallway. Have you ever refused to jump on? Many people …
You don’t want to talk about it. You don’t want to think about it. But it's important. If you are over 50, screening for colorectal cancer (cancer of the rectum or colon) is critical. For one …
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It is a story of corruption that will stay secret, politicians who will need fewer votes to win, even dangerous communicable diseases that will spread faster as our best scientists struggle to…
The spring gray whale migration is almost upon us. And, each year we delight in catching glimpses of these majestic creatures as they pass by, thrilling us with spouting displays as they blow …
This winter, the Cannon Beach Library encouraged writers from northwestern Oregon and southwestern Washington to submit a poem, story or essay on the theme, “Life on the North Coast,” for incl…
Gearhart isn’t underwater, but new maps swathed in shades of blue delineate degrees of submersion.
I’ve always felt that as elected officials it’s our job to engage the public and allow our residents to guide the decision-making process. And I’ve always had great faith in the citizens of Ge…
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I had something of a jarring journalistic moment the other day.
This month is dedicated to all the 501(c)3 dog rescues who work so hard, often with very little financial support, to not only save the lives of the voiceless, but to ensure their well-being w…
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In 1996, Hillary Clinton published the first edition of “It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us.”
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I woke up this morning to brilliant sun, a gift from the angels who look out on the Left Edge. It had been raining for days, a cold, piercing, rain, the kind that leaks into your collar, sendi…
Gearhart needs a new fire station. The existing building is antiquated and constructed of unreinforced masonry that will not perform well in an earthquake.
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Valentine’s Day is such a wonderful time of year to let the one we love know how much we value them, And, with the desire to express our love, sometimes we may overlook the most important piec…
Is Cannon Beach a getaway or a place to tune in? For many of us it’s a little of both.
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Michele Duncan King is a licensed massage therapist, registered yoga teacher and personal development coach; she is the owner of Sea Spell Massage in Cannon Beach. She enjoys travel, in partic…
February may be the shortest month, but the Cannon Beach Library has planned a full complement of free public events, beginning with Ellen Notbohm’s appearance in the Northwest Authors Series.
Do you have a personal operating philosophy? I do. Mine is “Do good, have fun, make money, because we have to pay the bills.” Let me explain a little. Doing good is what motivates me. I’m an e…
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It took me months to decide the news coming from the White House couldn’t be the cause, or at least not the sole cause, of my acid reflux. Six months or so ago (if I’m feeling particularly sou…
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WINGS offers educational opportunities for women who have had their education interrupted and are yearning to go back to school.
I worry about common dog training categorizations like “positive” or “balanced.” Two trainers may say they are positive but may mean and do entirely different things, just as two people may co…
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Try to remember the kind of September when the median price for a new home rose more than 1,200 percent from $25,600 in 1968 to $309,700 in 2018 as median household income rose only 800 percen…
We Clatsop County commissioners are here as community leaders, elected by the voters in our district, with an intention to do good. How we develop our definitions of that good is our individua…
Pianist Tom Grant is a longtime leader on the Portland music scene, an award-winning jazz and New Age music star with an international audience. After graduating from the University of Oregon,…
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Christmas is over and you’d think I’d had enough, but as I was feeling restive from an abundance of cooking and cleaning, in an effort to amuse me, last week, Mr. Sax, my husband, offered to j…
Old spirit tree,
Seaside’s Neal Maine stopped in the Signal office with some words of warning. The naturalist, wildlife photographer and former science teacher at Seaside High School slipped an 8X10 photo from…
Of all the masterful fiction of the North Coast, Don Berry presents the most vivid naturalism: capturing the scent of the woods, the hollow of a log or the whisper of a dream. The writer lived…
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Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel “Brave New World” is back and more relevant than ever. The title alone is a meme for our genetically engineered, social media besotted society, where individuals spe…