Ferndale City Council hears from county health head
No pressing business done in 75-minute meeting By Cal Bratt For the Record FERNDALE — Beside approving payroll and meeting minutes, the Ferndale City Council had no business to act ...
Community calendar for March 20, 2024
Through March 23 Lynden Winter Ride Sign-ups are open for this year’s Lynden Winter Ride program. The Winter Ride program is a multi-week chaperoned ski and snowboard program for ...
UPDATE: Inmate charged with controlled substance homicide at Whatcom County Jail
Staff Reports WHATCOM — A 38-year-old inmate has been charged with controlled substance homicide in the March 13 death and overdose at Whatcom County Jail. Angel Leffingwell was also ...
COUNTRY LIFE: New life and color for lawn and garden
IN BLOOM By David Vos LYNDEN — Charles Dickens once wrote of sunny March days as “summer in the light and winter in the shade.” With the promise of sunny, warmer weather arriving ...
COUNTRY LIFE: Benchmark jumps 91 cents from January
The nation’s benchmark milk price reversed two months of decline in February but still has a ways to go to return profitability to most U.S. farms. The Federal order Class III milk ...
Farmers object to break for rural parcels
Up to a half-acre of yard watering could use Ecology’s easier short form By Cal Bratt For the Tribune WHATCOM — The state-mandated adjudication of water rights in the Nooksack ...
Dominguez wins Crystal Apple Award
RENTON — On March 6, Kristi Dominguez received the 2024 Crystal Apple Award from the Washington School Public Relations Association (WSPRA) today at the association’s winter conference. ...
GUEST OPINION: Whatcom winters: An inward focus
By Rachael Maddalena Winter in Whatcom County is an acquired taste. As the years render on we allow the beauty of the winter outweigh the inconvenience of the cold. The focus turns ...
Helen Beckman Rossmeisl
My beloved sister, Helen, passed into the arms of our Lord on Dec. 10, 2023, following an extended illness. She was born in a log cabin, on the family homestead in Custer to our parents, ...
GUEST OPINION: Enthusiasm makes a difference
By Rameshinder Singh Sandhu More than a decade ago, as one of my school mates concluded his morning assembly speech on the topic of enthusiasm, our headmaster, Manjitinder Sing Bedi ...