The Cannon Beach Library’s Northwest Authors Speaker Series will host award-winning author Paula Butterfield Live on Zoom, Saturday, September 19, at 2 p.m. She will discuss “La Luministe,” her debut historical novel about the life and work of French Impressionist Berthe Morisot. Butterfield…
Hello, my name is Nicholas Bowling and I am writing to tell you why I will be voting Debbie Boothe-Schmidt for State Representative of House District 32.
We are in the grips of one of the worst economic collapses this country has experienced, a crisis of a magnitude many of us have not experienced in our lifetimes. How will we dig ourselves out…
Our economy here on Oregon’s North Coast relies on our environmental resources. We all treasure these resources, be they forests, soils, waterways, or ocean. We all understand that we must pro…
Although still physically closed to patrons during Covid-19, the Cannon Beach Library is expanding safe access to book and DVD collections through door-side pickup services, use of an online c…
To celebrate women’s history and the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the library’s Northwest Author Speakers Series will host Astoria author Marianne Monson with the help of Facebook Li…
To those of you who are moving to the North Coast in order to flee unrest and high taxation, I would like to ask you to kindly vote for candidates this November who will continue to protect th…
I checked the statements of Debbie Booth-Schmidt’s opponent to see what was being said, and found some inaccuracies:
The last “At the Library” column mentioned that the Cannon Beach Library was opening services slowly and safely beginning with Door-Side Service on July 20, which allowed contact-free service …
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…
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 smoky air quality in Portland brought a number of people to Cannon Beach the past few weekends as they sought an escape to cleaner air.
Wildfires Impact
As a result of extreme fire activity, the Bureau of Land Management Northwest Oregon District has temporarily closed all recreation sites and certain roads through Sept. 30.
Cannon Beach City Council discussed during a work session Tuesday, Sept. 8, a budget update for fiscal year 2020-2021.
The past 36 hours have been very challenging for coastal towns. Fire behavior that is very unpredictable, you need to be updated on the current events. We will be inundated with smoke from sev…
Oregon State University has received a $1.2 million grant from the Oregon Health Authority to expand its Coronavirus Sewer Surveillance project throughout Oregon to comb community wastewater s…
September is National Preparedness Month and Cannon Beach has events scheduled to help people get ready in the event of a disaster.
Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study from Oregon State University found.
Travelers need to pack their patience and allow extra travel time this Labor Day weekend, according to an advisory issued by the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).
Oregon continues to make progress this week in the fight against COVID-19 (Coronavirus), state leaders announced today.
Brace yourself. Summer is not over yet.
Thousands of Oregonians, many of them for the first time, are now receiving unemployment benefits. The Oregon Department of Revenue wants to remind recipients that these benefits are taxable, …
State health officials report progress in the declining COVID-19 cases in Oregon, but still challenges in slowing the spread, and reopening schools.
Oregon Health Sciences University has canceled a statewide study tracking 100,000 Oregonians for the COVID-19 virus.
Tide gates and associated infrastructure provide an important tool for protecting and controlling water and allowing for land uses, such as agriculture and roadways, along the Columbia River a…
The Oregon Department of Human Services has received approval from Food and Nutrition Services to disburse increased food benefits in September. This additional $30 million for eligible Supple…
High up on the side of Mount Hood, Timberline Lodge has over the years become an Oregon icon. Its rustic, WPA-financed design and construction strike most visitors as a good fit for the state’…
Governor Kate Brown received recommendations from the Vaping Public Health Work Group to address the epidemic of vaping-related illness and youth vaping in Oregon.
As Oregon moves into its second week of a declared wildfire State of Emergency, officials are urging everyone to know Oregon's laws about fire prevention.
Ecola State Park reopened Saturday, Aug. 15, after a landslide caused the park to shut down for road repairs in February. Landslides in the park damaged the park entrance road and wiped out ab…
Both the Seaside School District and the Cannon Beach Academy will begin school this year on Sept. 14 using a 100 percent Comprehensive Distance Learning model for the first six weeks of school.
Policy reforms and technological improvements could drive seafood production upward by as much as 75% over the next three decades, research by Oregon State University and an international coll…
Visitor traffic on Oregon’s north coast has spiked to extraordinarily high levels in August, causing problems with parking congestion and trash.
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…
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.
