[1] In late 1995, about 30 people attended a community meeting organized Judd Burrow at his Arbors Bed and Breakfast.
The group met to discuss a lack of news coverage from the Tillamook Headlight-Herald on the communities of Manzanita, Nehalem and Wheeler.
Burrow proposed the creation of a newspaper for people living in north Tillamook County.
[2] After that meeting, ten people helped create the first edition of the North Coast Citizen, which was published in April 1996.
[3] The couple ran it for three years until selling it in July 2007 to East Oregonian Publishing Company (now EO Media Group).