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GUEST OPINION: Misleading information negates pandemic’s ‘impact on society’
Hello, readers of the Ferndale Record newspaper. As a local advocate for truth and justice, I feel it is my responsibility to speak up when I see potentially harmful misinformation ...
Letters to the Editor — Dec. 1, 2021
• Vaccinated or not Editor, Thank you Vicki Strand for writing your Letter to the Lynden Tribune. It was principally well done. However, your statistics are poor and not accurate. ...
GUEST OPINION: For the community, by the community
As we enter the giving season, people nationwide will be looking to give back to the communities that have supported them. They’ll also look to ensure that their heartfelt giving—however ...
GUEST OPINION: A year in the life means a difficult week interlaced with smiles
Elisa Claassen for the Record “Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.” — Cheryl Strayed Neighbors in our community ...
Letters to the Editor — Nov. 24, 2021
• Thank you to the ‘Donut Angel’ Editor, To the donut angel who left a box of donuts on the steps of our flooded house on the Hampton Road Wednesday, I do not know who you are, ...
Letters to the Editor — Nov. 17, 2021
Americans ‘don’t like being lied to’ Editor, Too many wars, America. Too many endless wars. Too many brave men killed, leaving all the cowards at home to procreate. Whatever happened ...
Dark house, laptop, and flashlight
— Longtime Whatcom County resident and Lynden Tribune correspondent Elisa Claassen wrote this Monday evening “in a dark living room with no power on a laptop with a flashlight ...
Letters to the Editor — Nov. 10, 2021
Healthy kidneys, healthy me Editor: The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 disease upended daily life in the United States as infections surged across the country. If we pay even ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same
By Bill Helm [email protected] You wouldn’t think someone who recently moved roughly 1,700 miles northwest – to the Pacific Northwest – would not be hugely fond of change. ...
Letters to the Editor — Nov. 3, 2021
Pull together, fight COVID-19 Editor, I am very concerned about continued refusal by many in Whatcom County, and our country, to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Unless you have a legitimate ...