Letters

The following are my thoughts regarding our city attorney’s response to the Signal’s write-up regarding the ballot objection filed by myself and Dr. Harold Gable involving the vague language i…

Humans are at the top of the food chain. We have no natural predators. Except microscopic ones, like the coronavirus COVID-19.

In most years, residents welcome Hood to Coast participants with open arms and our famous Seaside hospitality. For frontline health care providers at Providence Seaside and Columbia Memorial h…

We are tourists visiting Seaside and what a lovely place it could be. Except for the heat wave, the mild weather is much enjoyed. We were dismayed to see all the trash in the streets and on th…

I was happy to read this in the Seaside Signal:

To Gearhart Mayor and City Councilors:

I read the article about business owners considering working with Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District to house workers in Broadway Middle School. An interesting approach (short-term) to…

To the business owners of the northern Oregon coast:

The COVID-19 outbreak in India is a humanitarian crisis with global implications. It’s also a powerful reminder that we won’t end this pandemic anywhere unless we end it everywhere.

The election is near and certain facts have not changed.

I am asking you to please join me in voting for the reelection of the current Board members of the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District: Su Coddington, Celeste Tuhy Bodner, Mike Hinton, …

On May 4, “Citizens of Clatsop County Political Forum” sponsored an event permitting the candidates the opportunity to state their views.

Since fall, sunsetempire.com has had a dedicated tab on their website: Sunset Recreation Center/Broadway Middle School. You can listen to three December webinar topics: the financial plan, com…

As a resident of Seaside, the current election is of great concern to me.

Expenses are rapidly accumulating for the Sunset Empire Park and Rec District’s recent acquisition of Broadway Middle School, now renamed the Sunset Recreation Center.

In real estate, you must move quickly if an opportunity presents itself, especially if other buyers have offers in hand. The Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board of Directors used …

I keep seeing election posters saying, “Reelect Su Coddington; Celeste Bodner; Erika Marshall-Hamer; Katherine Parker; and Mike Hinton, to the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board …

There is an important race in the upcoming May 18 election. I would like to provide you with some insight.

At the end of the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District candidate’s forum at the Bob Chisholm Center, in responding to a chat comment Chelsea Archibald, the wife of Skyler Archibald, said…

I cannot accept these vague representations from “Transparency” group candidates for Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District Board of Directors positions. They’ve no vision but a desire to …

What has changed?

Reelect!

We always feel a deep sense of respect and admiration for citizens who step up to serve their community in elected positions. These are often thankless jobs and are often caught up in controve…

In response to Michael Hinton’s letter to the editor, let’s just set a few things straight.

Next week we will receive our voters’ pamphlet and ballot for this year’s special election. This election chooses leaders for our community college, local school districts, port, water, health…

According to CNN, 47 mass killings have occurred in a month from March 16 through April 16. On Tuesday, March 30, one of the songs being played in the pool during the

“Ensuring all people have fair and just access to benefits to high quality parks and green spaces, recreation facilities, youth sports and programs that create healthy, resilient and economica…

I’m John Huismann and you’ve read my writing many times before if you read letters to the editor.

Kudos to Seaside’s Community Wellness Center aka Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District, where there is indeed something for everybody.

The recent tempest in a teapot at Sunset Empire Parks and Recreation District is interesting. To hear these folks talk, the old Broadway Middle School property, which SEPRD recently purchased …

That man from Clackamas County is right (letter, “Time to move transient RVs out of Seaside.”) It’s a travesty that people are living in broken-down RVs parked on the street.

Over the past 14 months, I have found it necessary to visit the Astoria DMV on three different occasions and on each of those occasions, I found the representatives there to be professional, k…

I have lived in Cannon Beach for twenty years and was drawn here by its stunning beaches, diverse tide pools, rocky habitats and wildlife. I’ve been a volunteer community scientist monitoring …

The transient RVs that are being allowed to camp for months across from the public restrooms at 12th and Necanicum need to be moved out of town. These people have expired registration dating b…

My name is Michael Hinton and I’m a candidate for the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District board of directors Position 3.

The board of directors of Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District, has decided to move young, vulnerable children entrusted to their care, to what they call Sunset Recreation Center. This i…