First quarter retail sales
LONG BEACH — Enjoying tourist traffic generated by a nearly seven-days-a-week razor clam season that started Jan. 6, earlier this year Pacific County retailers posted their best winter sales results...
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Date Business Name Description of Violation Points Assessed06/01/16 Willapa Elementary Food Handler cards invalid/expired/not available 5 Red06/01/16 North River School Food Handler cards...
View ArticleAstoria New Business Licenses
May and June 2016 All Critters Pet Sitter 88619 Lewis and Clark Road Astoria Animal sitterAlyssa Jean Graybeal 1667 6th Street, Astoria Not providedDirty Tours 342 14th Street #807, Astoria Farm and...
View ArticleClatsop County Property Transactions
Sale Date Sale Price Year Built Acres Address Buyer Seller06/01/16 $540,000 2015 0.47 4564 Sheridan Court, Gearhart Cameron Moore North River Homes LLC06/02/16 $255,000 1980 0.00 Columbia House Condo...
View ArticleSeaside New Business Licenses
June 2016Bath and Body Works LLC PO Box 182515, Columbus, Ohio RetailFive Rivers Construction Inc 1381 Industrial Way, Longview, Wa ContractorCoin Star 1 Towe Lane #900, Oakbrook, Il Coin counter...
View ArticlePacific County Property Transactions
Sale Date Sale Price Address Buyer Seller 05/25/16 $143,500 651 Seeley Street, Raymond Niel and Tracy Williams Dee Roberts and Larry Jones05/31/16 $30,500 19 Fairley Street, Lebam Thomas Lodholz WRA...
View ArticleIlwaco New Business Licenses
June 2016MLO Media 1309 NE 51st Street, Vancouver Advertising salesHeidi’s Inn LLC 126 Spruce Street E, Ilwaco MotelThe Inn at Ilwaco Harbour LLC 120 Williams Avenue NE, Ilwaco B&B and event...
View ArticleAstoria Building Permits
City of Astoria ResidentialName Address Value Description ContractorAva Blum 373 Altadena Avenue $5,000 8x12 exterior deck Michael Joseph BatesChristopher Nemlowill 478 Kensington Avenue $10,000...
View ArticleCannon Beach Building Permits
City of Cannon Beach ResidentialName Address Value Description ContractorHugh Finnan 767 S Hemlock $18,000 Deck Coaster ConstructionBrands et al 963 Ocean $80,000 Remodel, addition Coaster...
View ArticleLong Beach New Business Licenses
June 2016 Cervesia Gratis, Inc Outside city limits AlcoholBack Country Horse Adventures Inc 409 Sid Snyder West, Long Beach Horse ridingAramark Uniform and Career Apperal LLC Outside city limits...
View ArticleSteady sales, changing tastes highlight Pacific County housing market
LONG BEACH — A robust real estate market in Pacific County has some feeling optimistic amid changing tastes and election-year uncertainly among potential buyers.“It’s been really good. We’re seeing...
View ArticleA ‘seller’s market’ in Clatsop County
CLATSOP COUNTY — Real estate values are climbing in Clatsop County amid increasing interest from metropolitan markets, apartment scarcity and attractive financing options.“In 2016 we’ve seen a 9...
View ArticlePurchasing a home in Pacific County: Mortgage Origination Office offers...
LONG BEACH — Pacific County residents looking to purchase real estate will have a new financing option on the Peninsula in September. Wauna Credit Union, based in Clatskanie, is opening a Mortgage...
View ArticlePeninsula pot: First recreational marijuana stores setting up shop in Seaview...
ILWACO — On July 8, 2014 Washington’s first recreational marijuana retailers opened their doors for business. A little more than two years later, recreational pot is a budding business on the Peninsula...
View ArticlePostlewait named SBDC small business program manager
ASTORIA — Walt Postlewait, executive vice president and chief lending officer for Craft 3, has been named the program manager for the Clatsop Community College SBDC Small Business Management Program....
View ArticleThe art of boatbuilding: Bennett Boats
SEAVIEW — Marty Bennett has been building things by hand all his life. What began with whittling wood as a boy would eventually grow into welding colossal vessels. “I was blessed with the ability to do...
View ArticleHome cooking on the coast: Captain Bob’s Chowder lands on top-10 list
LONG BEACH — When it comes to home-cooked, comfort food, Captain Bob’s Chowder in Long Beach is one of the best in Washington, according to a June article published on onlyinyourstate.com Located at...
View ArticleWELL PRESERVED: George C. Flavel Residence
ASTORIA — “I can’t go any place without someone asking me about the house,” said Greg Newenhof, the owner of one of Astoria’s most intriguing residences: the George C. Flavel house.It began two years...
View ArticleFaces of lending
Senior loan officer, Bank of the Pacific, Seaside“I moved to Seaside in 1966. I left to go to college and was hand-posting mortgage payments at Nevada National Bank in 1979. I’ve been in banking ever...
View ArticleMeet the merchant: Martin Martinez, North Coast Antique Mall
“I have people from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, from Idaho to the sea — from all over the place. Most of them have houses in different places including here. The age of the vendors...
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