School’s back in session and students are utilizing school playgrounds. And thanks to bond funding, the students at East Elementary School will soon have a brand new play structure to utilize during recess. In May 2025, voters supported Measure 29-182 that created a bond for TSD9 worth $25.35 million with an additional $6 million grant awarded from the Oregon Capital Improvement Match Funds. All projects outlined for bond funds will finance critical safety and improvement projects to various district facilities. Projects have been prioritized based on safe schools, healthy students, and responsible stewardship. This bond is not a new tax to tax payers, but an extension of the current tax rate of $0.69 per $1,000 of assessed property value. East Elementary’s former playground consisted of several pieces of equipment in poor-shape and were not designed for intermediate age students. “Our fourth graders would definitely play on some of the equipment, but the fifth and sixth graders were really not as interested,” East Elementary School Principal Kara Rhodes said. “There was a lot that was breaking. It was really old and outdated.” The new play space is nearly 10,000 square feet with roughly $250,000 of new equipment. Installation began in July; a ribbon cutting ceremony was hosted on October 15, 2026. “There are some very unique pieces that we picked. It will be one of the nicest playgrounds in town,” TSD9 Bond Advisor Randy Schild said. “We selected items we thought would be best for fourth, fifth, and sixth-graders, but also with the understanding that this playground is a community resource and much younger kids will play on it when school is out.” 

Even though it wasn’t shipped in a brown cardboard box, Amazon has delivered a warehouse to Tillamook – its first on the Oregon Coast. A ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony tour was hosted by Amazon to celebrate the opening of its new 47,000 square-foot warehouse at the Port of Tillamook Bay on May 28. The purpose of the building is to operate as a “Last Mile” facility to get Amazon orders to its customers faster in rural areas by operating as a terminus for the company that receives packages, loads them, and delivers them within a 50-mile radius of the Tillamook warehouse – as far north as Cannon Beach and south to Lincoln City.