The 23rd Annual Spring Craft & Antique Show, scheduled for March 19, 20 and 21 at the NW Washington Fairgrounds in Lynden, will feature Blaine crafters.

To have a helpful companion as you travel through life is a marvelous gift. This poem by Gerald Fleming, a long-time teacher in the San Francisco public schools, celebrates just such a relationship.

Reports of credit card fraud to the Blaine Police have tripled over the past couple of months but so far investigators have not connected it to any specific local business or criminal source.

Have you ever had company for dinner, and had them all gather in the kitchen? To Bellingham architect Marshall Dobry that reflects one of the basic flaws in the ways that kitchens have been traditionally built.

Two women were booked into Whatcom County Jail after stealing a vehicle containing two children and leading Bellingham police, Whatcom County sheriff’s deputies, Washington State Patrol and Blaine police on an erratic chase from Bellingham to the Peace Arch border crossing.

Whatcom County Council has given the go-ahead to the parks department to demolish 11 buildings at Bay Horizon Park in Birch Bay. Bids for the demolition are expected to go out in March or early April.

“Our immediate goal is to save the Blaine train depot by working with both the city of Blaine and the Port of Bellingham to move the building to Plover Park where it will become the Waterfront Station, a multi-purpose community venue,” said Janet Pickard, president of the newly formed non-profit Blaine Coalition for Historic Preservation.

A donation fund has been established to help a local family get back on their feet after their house burned last week. Friends say Bobby Whitehead and Sandra Stacey and their two teenage children lost all their belongings to fire and smoke damage when their rental house on Birch Bay-Lynden Road burned March 2. According to North Whatcom Fire and Rescue, the fire started after a pizza box that caught fire on the stove was put on the back porch after it was thought to be extinguished. The box later ignited some garbage which quickly engulfed the back of the house. Donations to the Whitehead Family Assistance Fund can be made at any Bank of America.

When the current recession first started more than a year ago many of us experienced a feeling of déjà vu.

With the nation’s jobless rate topping 8 percent, the highest in 26 years, it’s little wonder consumers are suffering anxiety from the threat – either real or perceived – of job loss, foreclosure on their home, or possibly both.

The city of Blaine is now offering residential electrical customers rebates for Energy Star light fixtures and appliances.

Know why daylight savings time started earlier this year, just a week into March? So Americans could have more time to enjoy the snow after work.

A 43-year-old woman who worked at the Ferndale Dairy Queen was arrested Friday after allegedly adding a cleaning agent to a mix used to make malt shakes.

Welcome Dana! The Blaine Senior and Activity Center has hired Dana Hanks as their new coordinator.

• Birch Bay clean-ups nixed by county • 23rd Annual Spring Craft & Antique Show next weekend • Vendors needed for Ferndale Farmer’s Market • Sheriff’s Office to provide vacation house checks • Auditions for Barrington Bunny play this Saturday • Public invited to principal interviews • Free business classes offered • Sherman Alexie to speak next Thursday • Submissions sought for poetry contest • Kinder Eggs banned at border

Fresh flavors! A new Blaine restaurant uses fresh ingredients for lively flavors.

A Blaine couple, Bill and Shannon Rector, filed a lawsuit on March 6 in U.S. District Court in Seattle against the Kellogg company alleging that the company’s Austin brand peanut butter crackers made their family sick because it was tainted with salmonella.

After a grueling series of tedious and lengthy discussions, Blaine City Council voted to give Plover ferry operators the budget they asked for.

A Coquitlam man with a second home in Blaine was pepper sprayed, handcuffed and held for three hours before being denied entry last week after asking for more courteous treatment from a border inspector at the Lynden/Aldergrove crossing.

Those wanting a say in the future of Blaine’s skate park will want to attend a planning work session of the Blaine Parks and Cemetery Board next week.

As travelers cross through the Peace Arch border crossing this spring, wooden whale tails, bronze acrobats and stainless steel dancers will be just some of the sights visible from their vehicles.

The Blaine Chamber of Commerce has set a date for their annual Bite of Blaine food festival, which will be hosted by the Semiahmoo Resort on Monday, February 16.

Primary school hosts family night; Primary school hosts family night; City hosts short course on local planning; Sheriff’s office offers citizen’s academy

Open the door to Blaine veterinarian Jack Schuman’s office and you’ll be greeted by a very friendly and energetic Jack Russell terrier named Brady. When you reach out to pet him Schuman will ask if you want to take Brady home.

Welcome February, it means another month of fabulous fun, fellowship and food at the Blaine senior center. Welcome, everybody, join the crowd, here is a really great place to explore new ideas, encounter lively discussions, exercise with the weight-training equipment, borrow books, videos, and puzzles and devour delicious hot cooked meals within a circle of both new and old friends.