Tillamook County News

The Oregon Department of Agriculture announced it levied 16 fines in 2011 for violations of the confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.

In Tillamook County, a ballot measure called for adding a property tax assessment in order to pay for maintenance efforts on county roads.

Changes at the Tillamook Cheese Factory have left 47 workers jobless as the cooperative streamlines its operations in Oregon, Idaho and Utah.

Forty-seven employees at the Tillamook Cheese Factory's packaging department worked their last day on Saturday.

Fred Stovel's 92-year-old mother-in-law asked an ambulance from Tillamook County General Hospital for a Band-Aid last summer after a scratch wouldn't stop bleeding at last summer's Fourth of July parade in Manzanita.

"My Favorite Museum Exhibit" is a series of posts aimed at giving BoingBoing readers a chance to show off their favorite exhibits and specimens, preferably from museums that might go overlooked in the tourism pantheon.

Pianist Arnaldo Cohen doesn't plan to make a big thing of it, but 2012 marks 40 years since he... Kaste, representing Tillamook County, received a scholarship and the title during a banquet held at the Red Lion Hotel.

The National Weather Service has put out a winter weather advisory for Saturday and Sunday for the Oregon coast, mountain ranges of the north and central coast, the western Gorge, Willamette Valley, and much of the Washington and Oregon Cascades and even Portland is expecting a sizable dusting.