Expansion on horizon for Anytime Toffee
Plans to create warm welcoming in Ferndale By Leora Watson For the Record FERNDALE — Warming up the corner of Vista Drive and 3rd Avenue is Anytime Toffee owner Tara Wright’s ...
Ferndale police begin safety emphasis near school zones
FERNDALE — To remind people to drive carefully near schools, Ferndale patrol officers will conduct a safety emphasis over the next couple of months. Officers will be located on or ...
Micro weather zone plays role in two Birch Bay Lynden Road accidents Wednesday
By Bill Helm Editor WHATCOM — Two accidents, one with serious injuries, took place the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 16, on Birch Bay Lynden Road just west of Lynden. Shaun Ward, Division ...
UPDATE: Shewmake leads Sefzik in LD42 senator race
Rule, Timmons also lead in state representative elections By Bill Helm Editor WHATCOM — With more than 84,000 ballots counted and approximately 23,000 more to be counted, Sharon Shewmake, ...
Star Park vandalized: Ferndale Police ask for help identifying suspects
Staff Reports FERNDALE — Ferndale Police Department is looking for help identifying anyone responsible for vandalism done to the Star Park restroom and shelter the weekend of Oct. ...
Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing celebrates 50th anniversary
FERNDALE — A three-generation success story, Ferndale-based Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing is celebrating its 50th anniversary by giving away $25,000 in services and/or ...
Air quality burn ban ends in Whatcom, Skagit, Island counties
But counties continue their fire safety burn bans The Northwest Clean Air Agency is ending a Stage 2 air quality burn ban for Island, Skagit, and Whatcom counties because air quality ...
Border Patrol agents seize over $1.7 Million of meth
BLAINE — Blaine Sector Border Patrol agents seized a 2006 Hummer H3 and nearly 450 pounds of crystal methamphetamine in a residential area near the international boundary. On Sept. ...
Briefly: Lynden and the surrounding areas in the news, Sept. 7, 2022
Advertising helps support Ferndale High School band FERNDALE — The Ferndale High School band program will participate in band camp this school year, the school’s band boosters ...
Tom Van Berkum
Tom Van Berkum
Theunis “Tom” Van Berkum passed away peacefully at his home in Lynden, surrounded by his family on Sept. 2.
Tom was born in Molkwerum Friesland on April 1, 1932, ...