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n Sunday, July 12, 2025, at approximately 3:15 a.m., the Oregon State Police responded to a two-vehicle hitand-run fatal crash on Highway 18 in Tillamook County near Grand Ronde. The preliminary investigation indicated that a white Honda Civic, operated by Alejandro Christopher Velazquez Lopez (34) of Tillamook, was traveling eastbound on Highway 18 near milepost 14. The Honda left the travel lane and entered the eastbound shoulder, where a black Nissan Altima with a flat tire was parked. Three 17-yearold males were outside the Nissan, changing the flat tire, when the Honda left the roadway and struck all three juveniles. The Honda did not stop and continued driving eastbound on the highway. All three male juveniles were transported to area hospitals with serious injuries. A 17-yearold female passenger was inside the Nissan at the time of the crash and was not injured. OSP Major Crime Section detectives were immediately called to investigate and locate the operator of the Honda. On July 14, 2025, OSP investigators were notified that one of the 17-year-old males died as a result of injuries sustained during the crash. The operator of the Honda (Lopez) is believed to have left the country and there is an active warrant for his arrest. The highway was impacted for approximately 11.5 hours during the on-scene investigation. OSP was assisted by the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Lincoln City Police Department, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Tribal Police, and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
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(Top) Commissioners Paul Fournier and Mary Faith Bell, along with Garibaldi Mayor Katie Findling, Bill Jablonski from ODOT, Senator Suzanne Weber, Representative Cyrus Javadi, Sheriff Josh Brown and Mike Zollner from K & E Excavating cut the ribbon on a 101 improvement project in the heart of downtown. (Bottom) This dance team entertained the crowd during the Garibaldi Days Parade that kicked off Saturday’s events.
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eyond the grandstand attractions like the Pig n’ Fords, nightly musical entertainment and Saturday’s demolition derby, the Tillamook County Fair offers a schedule packed with events for the whole family from August 7-10. From parimutuel horse racing to ice cream tasting contests, hypnotists to cowgirl tricks and so much more in between, the county fair is a can’t miss event. Fair week officially kicks off on Wednesday morning with opening ceremonies at 10 a.m. on the fair’s courtyard stage, including a flag raising and performance of the national anthem. The courtyard stage will then play home to a host of entertainment options, with the Tillamook School of Dance, Brad’s World of Reptiles and Karen Quest performing cowgirl tricks on the schedule for Wednesday
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after the opening ceremonies. Several unique contests will also be held in the courtyard, with ice cream tasting contests on the schedule every day, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, 3:30 on Thursday, 3:45 on Friday and 3 on Saturday. There will also be a bubble gum contest at 4:30 on Wednesday, an oven mitt
race contest on Friday at 4:45, an Oreo face contest on Saturday at 1:45, and husband and pig calling contests at 5 on Saturday. The fair’s annual milk chugging contest will also take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday in the Aufdermauer Arena. Fair Acres, sponsored by Werner Gourmet Meats, will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, with Brad’s World of Reptiles, the Old Iron Club, a kids’ zone and farmer for a day, with an afternoon story time scheduled at 3 p.m. daily. Carnival rides operated by Rainier Amusements will be open from noon to 10 p.m. daily, with parimutuel horse racing starting at 12:30 p.m., with wristbands required in addition to fair entry. Wednesday is opening day, Thursday is pioneer day, Friday is Tillamook County merchants’ day, and Saturday is closing day, and more fun is scheduled for each. Check next week’s edition for our annual fair guide including a complete schedule and fairgrounds map to get ready for an unforgettable week.
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illamook Air Museum Director Rita Welch and Port of Tillamook Bay General Manager Michele Bradley appeared before the board of county commissioners on July 23, to seek $500,000 in transient-lodging-tax dollars to fund a structural and engineering study, and feasibility study for repairs to Hangar B at the port. Welch said that the port and museum were confronted with a difficult proposition when trying to determine the building’s future, as unknowns have limited potential maintenance and upkeep solutions in the past, and that the studies would put them in a better position to move forward with preserving the hangar and maximizing its potential. “We have this wonderful, beautiful building that is so large it can encompass not only tourism but also economic development, so we’re kind of unique,” Welch said. Hangar B was built as part of Naval Air Station Tillamook Bay over nine months in 1942 and 1943, opening in the spring of 1943 and matched by Hangar A, which was erected in just 27 days but burned down in 1992. Originally, there were 17 hangars built up and down the west coast, but only five remain, with Tillamook’s the only one open to the public. After the war, the Navy deeded the hangars to the county government in 1953, which subsequently deeded them to the Port of Tillamook Bay in 1966. Originally, the air museum inside Hangar B was run as for-profit concern, but in 1990 the port took it over and transitioned the museum to a nonprofit model. Today, the air museum receives more than 50,000 visitors annually, and other businesses such as Brittney Bakes, Tilly Tots preschool, Pelican Brewery and Stimson Lumber also lease space in the massive structure. Welch said that the issue facing the museum and the port was that there were likely many projects that would be needed to preserve the building and that it was difficult to make decisions about what steps to take without a comprehensive picture of what projects are needed and if their costs are supportable. Welch said that the museum and port had discussed a structural and engineering study for the building with contractors who have performed previous studies of various elements of the hangar and been told that it would cost $200,000$250,000 to complete such a study. Welch said that she was estimating that a feasibility study to determine the practicality and costs of projects identified in those studies would carry a similar price tag. Completing those studies would allow the team at the port to move forward with next steps to preserve the structure, whether it be through a sale to a private company or individual, community- or grant-funded rehabilitation, or some combination thereof. Welch noted that the clean-up effort for a hangar recently destroyed by a fire in Orange County was around $60 million, while the See PORT, Page A3
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