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, ...
Ruth Maier
Ruth Maier
Ruth Maier went home to be with her loving Savior on Monday, Aug. 29.
Ruth was born to Bert and Hannah (Vander Vorste) on July 10, 1926 in Westfield, ND.
Ruth was one of ...
Herb Aalpoel
Herb Aalpoel
Mr. Herbert Aalpoel, 93, of South Easton, Massachusetts, passed away on Monday, Aug. 29 at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Herb was the loving ...
GUEST OPINION: Fall has beautiful virtues
I grew up on the remnants of my mom’s childhood farm. It had become a hobby farm for our tenure after being a working farm. My neighbors had dairy farms with a few small berry farms ...
GUEST OPINION: Eco-Utopian ideas fail on constitutional principles
The climate-emergency-snoots who populate the governments of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, are having their Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference near Blaine on Sept. 12-13. ...