Cannon Beach Citizen

Deb Marriott, executive director of the Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership, will be Chinook Observer editor Matt Winters' guest this week. They will discuss the wellbeing of the Columbia River and river-health initiatives.

Let's get this out of the way first: The marketing campaigns thus far dreamed up by DVA Advertising and presented to the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce are works in progress.

What sets Cannon Beach apart from other coastal towns?

This week's not-to-go-unnoticed subject is: feeding wildlife. It is a rich and varied talking point, with a full panoply of responses.

After more than a year of controversy and a potential lawsuit, the Monroe Street trail received final approval Aug. 19 and volunteers immediately began to clear the path.

When the community of Cannon Beach gathered for a potluck dinner August 12, at least 21 people had a richer experience for being there.

A new Cannon Beach restaurant hits all the right marks with its Irish- and Northwest-inspired menu.

Coast Weekend Editor Kathleen Strecker talks with Astoria Sunday Market Director Cyndi Mudge and 4-H Program Coordinator Sandra Carlson about the Young Entrepreneurs booth at the Sunday Market.

Meet saltmakers from the Corps of Discovery in person on the beach in Seaside.

Now that the branding of the city is in the hands of a very successful marketing and publicity firm, what can residents and merchants realistically expect...or fear? Find out as Cannon Beach Citizen editor Michael Burkett chats with Jeffery Jewell and Sue Myers of the Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce.

"I believe," Sir Laurence Olivier once said, "that in a great city, or even in a small city or village, the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture is a great theatre."

The best civic endeavors on our coast benefit every local community.

He wishes he didn't, but Ryan Snyder now knows the answer to the old party question, "What's the one personal belonging you would rescue if your house were burning down?"

Within the microcosm of the world that's known as Cannon Beach, there is a microcosm of The Great White Way called The Coaster Theatre - complete with its own small but reliable star system.

The suspenseful comic drama "A Talent for Murder," by Jerome Chodorov and Norman Panama, is now on stage at the Coaster Theatre.

The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners appointed Arch Cape business owner Stephen Malkowski to the Clatsop County Planning Commission during its July 28 board meeting.

Imagine, for a moment, how difficult it would be to leave everything you have ever known: country, culture, language, friends and family.

Now that the branding of the city is in the hands of a very successful marketing and publicity firm, what can residents and merchants realistically expect...or fear?

Daily Astorian reporter Nancy McCarthy talks with Cannon Beach Mayor Mike Morgan and City Manager Rich Mays about tourism, the arts and other issues.

A two-alarm house fire on Forest Lawn Road and a stranded hiker on Tillamook Head kept Cannon Beach firefighters and other local districts busy overnight Thursday.

Sue Kroning, Valerie Lindhout and Patrick Webb talk with Daily Astorian Editor Steve Forrester about growing up in the British Commonwealth and finding their way to Clatsop County.

It wouldn't be summer on the Oregon coast without complaints about traffic and parking.

Are tourists good or evil?

The suspenseful comic drama "A Talent for Murder," by Jerome Chodorov and Norman Panama, is now on stage at the Coaster Theatre.

The Cannon Beach Chamber of Commerce has taken a giant leap forward in the promotion of the city by engaging the Bend-based firm of DVA Advertising & Public Relations - the first time in its existence that the chamber has made such a move.

Considering Wendy Higgins' perpetually sunny outlook, it's unlikely that, as her fiftieth birthday approached a little over one year ago, she viewed the occasion with dread.