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Public Meetings — Oct. 26, 2016

Wednesday, Oct. 26 • Portage Bay Shellfish Protection District Advisory Committee, Civic Center Annex Garden Room, 322 N. Commercial St., Bellingham, 3 p.m. • Meridian School Board, ...

Letters to the Editor — Oct. 26, 2016

Remembering a home Thank you for emailing the Friday news alerts edition of the Tribune to me. I read with interest your story about traffic revision on Main Street. Our family grew ...

An unbelievable finish

By Kevin Doucette [email protected] BELLINGHAM — Ferndale head coach Rigel Weis said that in his 30-plus years of being around soccer he has never seen anything like what he ...

Shining on senior night

By Kevin Doucette [email protected] FERNDALE — On Brittany Olinger’s final serve at Ferndale High School she aced it into the back corner of the court to seal the victory ...

Halloween events return for another year

By Ashley Hiruko [email protected] FERNDALE — Haunt the Park and Downtown Trick or Treat are back for another year. On Saturday, Oct. 29, starting at 5 p.m., Main Street will ...

21 miles of county road to receive rumble strips

WHATCOM ­— Approximately 21 miles of county roads will be adapted to rumble strips, with work starting on Monday, Oct. 24, and scheduled to last about three weeks, according to Whatcom ...

Eight injured in two crashes on Lummi Reservation

WHATCOM ­— Two separate crashes on the Lummi Reservation over the weekend sent a total of eight people to the hospital. In both crashes, the driver was suspected of being under the ...

October is National Adopt-A-Dog Month

There are a million good reasons to consider adopting a dog during American Humane’s yearly Adopt-a-Dog Month in October – in fact, it’s a lot more than that. Each year, an estimated ...

Bringing in the best to prepare for the worst

By Brent Lindquist [email protected] FERNDALE — At least 34 different agencies were involved in a massive mobilization on Thursday in an exercise designed to prepare Whatcom ...

The big windstorm that wasn’t

By Calvin Bratt [email protected] WHATCOM ­— The county experienced scattered power outages and three local high school football games were postponed from Friday to Monday ...