When you’re the new kid in town, you can never be sure when it’s okay to speak up.
Recently, Suzanne Weber touted an endorsement from a big business, PAC, as a reason to support her to represent our communities in Salem. Weber has taken thousands of dollars from corporate sp…
Since March, this column has offered little news about the Cannon Beach Library so you might want to sit down before reading that the library is experimenting with lending books and DVDs safel…
The Cannon Beach Library remains locked down, but the library board has been using the coronavirus closure as an opportunity to repaint, redesign the office, purchase physical shields, and pla…
Summer is here, COVID restrictions have eased, and it’s a beautiful time to get outside - with some considerations.
Recently, this column has ignored many books focused on the chaos surrounding all things touched by President Donald Trump.
Two weeks ago, the “At the Library” column of May 29 reviewed the book “The Toledo Incident of 1925,” in which Ted Cox describes a nativist uprising in Toledo, Oregon, against Pacific Spruce C…
Dear Editor, May 29 marked the 62nd anniversary of Fort Clatsop’s entrance into the National Park System.
Dear Editor, I was walking the beach last month and spotted a plastic bottle in the sand on Chapman Beach. I decided that I, like most Cannon Beach residents, would remove it from the beach.
Other than online access to eBooks, the Cannon Book Library remains closed. Patrons can take some comfort, though, from knowing Marjorie MacQueen continues adding new titles to the collection …
What kind of magical thinking led Diana Turner and Lisa Kerr to the conclusion that 100 oceanfront property owners would not challenge the City of Cannon Beach’s recent ordinance banning a pra…
Fifty years have passed since the afternoon of May 11, 1970, when - supported by regular officers - 20 members of the Tactical Operations Platoon of the Portland Police Bureau, applied 42-inch…
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In these unprecedented times, I found myself reflecting more and more on the importance of tradition. Our great nation is rooted in many wonderful traditions. They bind us together, they stren…
We write regarding the notices to appeal the Cannon Beach City Council’s decision to disallow dune grading for views by both the Breaker’s Point and the Chapman Point HOAs.
I was profoundly disappointed to read of pending lawsuits filed by the residents of Breakers Point and Chapman Point.
Recently, the Cannon Beach City Council revised the dune management plan to exclude dune grading for views.
Let’s be clear: the Breakers Point and Chapman Point HOAs are appealing the City of Cannon Beach’s foredune management plan so they can bulldoze our state-owned dunes in order to improve their…
The Friends of the Dunes applauds the City of Cannon Beach for its thorough process in updating the foredune management plan.
COVID-19 still prompts north coast residents to shelter at home. Cannon Beach Library remains closed, which keeps visitors away, library programs canceled, and others rescheduled until after M…
The Cannon Beach Library remains shuttered until health authorities deem it safe to open for patrons. Stay home and healthy.
With coronavirus pillaging the land, politicians shut the gates on such social and cultural barns as public libraries.
Dear Editor: Well, Cannon Beach mayor and City Council, after the Savor Cannon Beach fiasco, are we awake and listening?
Timber Unity has a mission statement to the effect that it will work to protect Oregon communities and jobs. It is a thoroughly worthy objective. I have no doubt that its members are sincere i…
This column traditionally emphasizes upcoming events, activities, speakers, authors and new titles at the Cannon Beach Library, as it did in the previous Cannon Beach Gazette.
With layoffs and quarantines looming from the COVID-19 pandemic, Oregon policymakers should modify the state’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program to help workers and businesses cope with the …
The antidote to Oregon’s vitriolic 2020 legislative session came in a phone call from a woman who had a basic question for me: “How am I supposed to survive?”
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The Clatsop County Public Health Department on Thursday, Aug. 6, reported one new local COVID-19 case.
One month after announcing that state inspectors would be conducting weekend spot checks in bars, restaurants, breweries, tasting rooms, and other establishments that serve alcohol to enforce …
COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 338, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5.
The Coast Guard medevaced an injured fisherman Tuesday from a 63-foot commercial fishing boat operating about 150 miles offshore from Yaquina Bay, Oregon.
The Clatsop County Public Health Department on Wednesday, Aug. 5, reported one new local COVID-19 case.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is in active conversations about the potential of travel restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 between states.
Though this summer may feel different than summers past, one thing remains constant: The need for blood donations to help save lives. The American Red Cross is urging healthy individuals to gi…
COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 333, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4.
Lower Columbia Hispanic Council (LCHC), the culturally centered nonprofit organization headquartered in Astoria, is unveiling its rebranding, marking a new chapter for the organization. LCHC i…
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Governor Kate Brown will convene a Special Session of the Oregon Legislature at 8 a.m. Monday, August 10.
COVID-19 has claimed two more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 328, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. Monday, Aug. 3.
The Clatsop County Public Health Department reported Monday, Aug. 3, that seven new local COVID-19 cases were recorded over the weekend.
State health officials are warning people not to eat onions from Thomson International, Inc., of Bakersfield, California, after 76 people in 13 Oregon counties fell ill with matching strains o…
COVID-19 has claimed one more life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 326, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 2.
Columbia Pacific CCO is offering virtual behavioral health training opportunities for professional and traditional health care workers. This is new for 2020.
The Clatsop County Public Health Department on Friday, July 31, reported one new local COVID-19 case.
Oregon State Police responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, July 30, on Hwy 101 milepost 17. Preliminary investigation revealed a Chevrolet coupe, driven by Aaron Harri…
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SOLVE is encouraging Columbia County residents and those across Oregon to join a 15-day statewide cleanup effort during SOLVE IT for Oregon.
The Coast Guard rescued a fisherman from the water Tuesday, July 28, after his vessel began taking on water and sank near the Cape Disappointment bar.
The Oregon Department of Human Services has received approval by the federal Food and Nutrition Service to continue in August to provide increased food benefits and waive the interview require…
COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 316, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, July 30.
A Coast Guard aircrew hoisted two female teenagers Wednesday, July 29, near Fort Stevens State Park in Hammond. At 5 p.m., watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Columbia River Command Center…
The summer heat has sent many to flock to the Columbia River and area lakes and streams to cool off.
Oregon officials are warning consumers against responding to text messages offering access to lost or unclaimed funds held by the state of Oregon.
The Oregon Department of Human Services has received approval by the federal Food and Nutrition Service to continue in August to provide increased food benefits and waive the interview require…
Recently, this column has ignored many books focused on the chaos surrounding all things touched by President Donald Trump.
Two weeks ago, the “At the Library” column of May 29 reviewed the book “The Toledo Incident of 1925,” in which Ted Cox describes a nativist uprising in Toledo, Oregon, against Pacific Spruce C…
Dear Editor, May 29 marked the 62nd anniversary of Fort Clatsop’s entrance into the National Park System.
Dear Editor, I was walking the beach last month and spotted a plastic bottle in the sand on Chapman Beach. I decided that I, like most Cannon Beach residents, would remove it from the beach.
Other than online access to eBooks, the Cannon Book Library remains closed. Patrons can take some comfort, though, from knowing Marjorie MacQueen continues adding new titles to the collection …
What kind of magical thinking led Diana Turner and Lisa Kerr to the conclusion that 100 oceanfront property owners would not challenge the City of Cannon Beach’s recent ordinance banning a pra…
Fifty years have passed since the afternoon of May 11, 1970, when - supported by regular officers - 20 members of the Tactical Operations Platoon of the Portland Police Bureau, applied 42-inch…
We write regarding the notices to appeal the Cannon Beach City Council’s decision to disallow dune grading for views by both the Breaker’s Point and the Chapman Point HOAs.
I was profoundly disappointed to read of pending lawsuits filed by the residents of Breakers Point and Chapman Point.
Recently, the Cannon Beach City Council revised the dune management plan to exclude dune grading for views.
Let’s be clear: the Breakers Point and Chapman Point HOAs are appealing the City of Cannon Beach’s foredune management plan so they can bulldoze our state-owned dunes in order to improve their…
The Friends of the Dunes applauds the City of Cannon Beach for its thorough process in updating the foredune management plan.
COVID-19 still prompts north coast residents to shelter at home. Cannon Beach Library remains closed, which keeps visitors away, library programs canceled, and others rescheduled until after M…
The Cannon Beach Library remains shuttered until health authorities deem it safe to open for patrons. Stay home and healthy.
With coronavirus pillaging the land, politicians shut the gates on such social and cultural barns as public libraries.
Dear Editor: Well, Cannon Beach mayor and City Council, after the Savor Cannon Beach fiasco, are we awake and listening?
Timber Unity has a mission statement to the effect that it will work to protect Oregon communities and jobs. It is a thoroughly worthy objective. I have no doubt that its members are sincere i…
This column traditionally emphasizes upcoming events, activities, speakers, authors and new titles at the Cannon Beach Library, as it did in the previous Cannon Beach Gazette.
Utah seldom is cited, at least in recent years, as a hotbed of liberal or feminist politics, but - although Wyoming was the first state to extend voting rights to women - females in Utah actua…
Before reminding readers of upcoming events and activities at the Cannon Beach Library, let’s tease Daniel Okrent’s new book on pseudoscientific efforts to limit, if not end, immigration durin…
As daylight shrank and winter weather became the reality last November, the Northwest Authors Committee invited residents and visitors to the north coast to submit poems, stories and essays re…
Marjorie MacQueen recently purchased several nonfiction titles for the library’s new arrivals shelf. Only two of them, thankfully, focus on Donald Trump.
Two clean energy ballot initiatives will move forward after a Marion County Judge ordered the Secretary of State to allow the measures to proceed. Judge David Leith ruled Thursday, Jan. 16, In…
For readers particularly interested in the history of Oregon’s most extreme geological events, participants in the upcoming Cannon Beach Reads, led by Lila Wickham, will discuss William L. Sul…
Dear Editor: Apparently, Mr. Morgan heard nothing that was said by the Cannon Beach residents who spoke intelligently and eloquently about why they were against grading the dunes.
Dear Editor: Apart from the ad hominem attacks by my friend Diane and Commissioner Kerr, neither of them explained what, exactly, is wrong with grading the tops of dunes for views.
The Northwest Authors Series seeks submissions for the Second Annual Writers’ Read Celebration planned for Feb. 28 at the library.
Dear Editor: Mr. Morgan has engaged in the all- too-common practice of making a case by stating only the facts that are favorable to his point of view, in his recent guest opinion.
Dear Editor: In his guest opinion column in the Cannon Beach Gazette of November 29, 2019, Mike Morgan is doing his job as a paid consultant to the homeowners’ association along the Cannon Bea…
The Cannon Beach Library is inviting residents and visitors to its annual Holiday Tea on Dec. 7 from 1-4 p.m. at the library, 131 N. Hemlock St.
In November 2015, Councilor Benefield was quoted as saying: “I’m not opposed to grading… I’m just opposed to doing something without knowing what its effect is going to be.” (Daily Astorian, N…
Oregon memoirist and novelist Craig Lesley packed the children’s room at Cannon Beach Library last Saturday afternoon as he presented a stellar Northwest Authors Series reading from “autobiogr…
In response to David Dornbusch’s Oct. 21 letter, “Alligators in Ecola Creek?,” where he whimsically compares allowing European beach grass in our dunes to the possibility of allowing alligator…
At the risk of repeating news related in the last column, let’s quickly review events upcoming in November.
Last Wednesday, the Cannon Beach Reads group discussed Hope Jahren’s “Lab Girl,” an uplifting yet realistic memoir.
Dear Editor: Did someone release pet alligators into Ecola Creek? Are they multiplying and eating our native ducks, gulls and an occasional elk?
Reminder to readers: The Northwest Authors Series brings Oregon novelist Stephen Holgate to the Cannon Beach Library on Oct, 12 at 2 p.m. And Cannon Beach Reads will discuss Jahren Hope’s best…
Dear Editor: As a north coast parent, I think regularly about what our local schools need to prepare our children for success. We need smaller class sizes, so kids get more one-on-one attentio…
Readers are reminded that the annual Fall Festival is Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at the library.
With Labor Day Weekend a memory, Cannon Beach residents anticipate a gradual decline in the numbers of visitors and vehicles in our village, as September bookends blue skies and warm afternoon…
This year’s Fall Festival, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28, is taking shape.
I make a point of checking on new library acquisitions regularly, especially new non-fiction titles Marjorie MacQueen adds to the Cannon Beach Library collection. I just received her list of n…
Hello Friends, I have spent much of the past year arguing that that Oregon needs, at long last, to get serious about emergency, earthquake, and tsunami planning.
New Office Manager, July Fourth Book Sale and Discussion of Albright’s “Fascism”
Not long ago, I attended a Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting and sat next to John Buehler, who quickly reminded me of how we first met.
Dear Customers, Friends, and Family:
This column ran in The Gazette 11 years ago. Granddaughter Emmersen has finished her freshman year of college. But this memory is vivid and the message timeless. Thank you for reading it.
Every Fourth of July morning for three decades, Cannon Beach residents and visitors, cups of java in hand, gather along Hemlock Street for two events—the Independence Day Parade and the Cannon…
We would like to thank the community of Cannon Beach and the Seaside School District for being so supportive of the Cannon Beach History Center & Museum and our decision to purchase the fo…
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 …