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Farmers pay tribute to a dear friend
This is a guest column from Scott Bedlington, chair of the Whatcom Ag Water Board, and Brad Rader, president of Whatcom Family Farmers. Whatcom farmers lost a dedicated friend with ...
What We Are Thankful For
We invited staff throughout the Lynden Tribune & Print Company plant to offer their statements of what they are thankful for this year as we enter into Thanksgiving Day celebration. ...
Mayor: We’re a 50/50 city
By Jon Mutchler Ferndale Mayor After the dust of the election settled, I looked up the vote totals for Ferndale and guess what? It was within five votes — 2,508 people voted for Hillary ...
Letters to the Editor — Nov. 16, 2016
Buys is right Rep. Vincent Buys said (Nov. 2 edition) that the state budget is $12,000 per student. Patti Fairbanks, director of finance for the Lynden School District, said they get ...
Letter to the Editor
Some recommendations I attended a Whatcom County council meeting this past week after hearing that one of the items on the agenda dealt with the recent Washington State Supreme Court ...
Both sides on wrong track on Cherry Point
This is a guest column from Natalie McClendon of Bellingham, a Whatcom County planning commissioner. The Whatcom County Council has not banned the export of unrefined fossil fuels, ...
Letters to the Editor — Nov. 2, 2016
Supports Van Werven I am proud to personally know Rep. Luanne Van Werven. She is a person of her word and has a high level of integrity. As a resident of Kendall I greatly appreciate ...
County Council on wrong track on Cherry Point
This is a guest opinion from Tony Larson, president of the Whatcom Business Alliance. On Sept. 27, 2016, the Whatcom County Council passed a six-month moratorium that bans the export ...
A farewell from the Tribune’s sports reporter Headline
I’m thinking back right now to a conversation I had with a family friend last spring about high school sports. He had grown up as a talented athlete in the small eastern Washington ...
EMS levy crucial to maintaining service
This is a guest column from Erica Littlewood Work, chair of the county EMS Saves Lives Committee. A car crash . . . a heart attack . . . a home or workplace injury . . . these events ...