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Comforting pasta dish makes for a speedy dinner

  I really, really like pasta, and not just because it’s so delicious, but also because it’s so versatile. Pasta can be served hot with creamy Alfredo, tangy marinara or earthy ...

Gravy Days: Here’s transportation everyone uses

The fact that I often discuss food in this column is not lost on me. I’ll admit to passion about the subject and think I inherited more than a few tendencies and practices concerning ...

Letters to the Editor — Aug. 26, 2015

Disputes Murray   Sen. Patty Murray is off base. State and regional partnerships financed by her proposed Promoting Innovations to 21st Century Careers Act, accompanied by a higher ...

Letters to the Editor — Aug. 19, 2015

Supports Mutchler   I have lived in Ferndale for the past 23 years and have been involved in various community organizations and had many encounters with Jon Mutchler. Jon and I ...

Letters to the Editor — Aug. 12, 2015

Supports Buys, Van Werven on Planned Parenthood   My compliments to Representatives Vincent Buys and Luanne Van Werven, both of the 42d District, for their necessary and courageous ...

Gravy Days: The divine nudge should be heeded

  If you’ve ever read anything I write, you know I believe in divine guidance. Sometimes I rebel and have to learn the hard way that God expects more of me than I do of myself. ...

Letters to the Editor — July 29, 2015

Supports Briscoe The Port of Bellingham is connected to about 10 percent of all private jobs in Whatcom County. This is why your vote is important to think about on the primary ballot. ...

Letters to the Editor — July 22, 2015

Candidate responds to citizen concern   A citizen in last week’s Record (7/15/2015) wrote to argue that my career as the pastor of a neighborhood church precludes me from serving ...

A real estate ‘perfect storm’

by Brent McMillan, Real Estate Specialist, Windermere Whatcom Inc.   Welcomingly, the questions I hear constantly are, “What’s the housing market like here in Ferndale?” and ...

Letters to the Editor — July 15, 2015

Supports Bersch   In the cross I see the vertical as primary, the horizontal as important, but secondary. So that cross represents all I hold dear: God first, people second.   As ...