Thu, Mar 21, 2002
Birch Bay State Park gets its boat launch back
Local boaters can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Whatcom County hearing examiner Michael Bobbink has ruled against a county planning and development...
Thu, Mar 14, 2002
Study checks prostate cancer, nutrition link
A joint cancer prevention study by the National Cancer Institute, St. Joseph Hospital, Cascadia Clinical trials and Swedish Hospital is looking for local...
Firefighters celebrate successes
Fire district 13 marked its first year as part of North Whatcom Fire and Rescue Service at its annual award banquet last Saturday. A crowd of over 100 ...
The Blaine Boys & Girls Club recently selected Alex Lawrence as its 2001 Youth of the Year.Fourteen-year-old Alex has been a member of the Blaine club...
Gardner pushes for marker removal
Senator Georgia Gardner is quietly working to move the controversial Jefferson Davis marker beside the Peace Arch to the Semiahmoo museum and out of the...
Supersized cell in middle school
Three weeks ago Todd Apple’s seventh grade class didn’t know cells had parts. Today, they know what those parts are, how they work, and they ...
Volunteers needed for math match
You don’t have to be a math whiz to lend a hand at the 2002 Washington State Math Championship, where youngsters from across the state will match ...
Cleaning up their act, or just the facade?
There is no more mention of adult or XXX content on the outside of the Blaine Book Company. To read the building’s signs, it’s just another video...
Council hears somber financials
Despite a year of cuts and belt-tightening, Blaine still is paying out more than it’s taking in. “Our beginning fund balance for 2002 has declined...
St. Joseph Hospital’s Community Cancer Center is coordinating a free colo-rectal Cancer home-testing kit distribution until March 15. Hemoccult II...
A cel phone is not a marine radio
A recent search and rescue case off the Washington coast highlights the concern of Coast Guard officials over the reliance that boaters place on the use...
Crab feed fuels fastpitch team
The Blaine Force girls’ fast-pitch softball program gets underway this weekend with a benefit crab feed and dance at the Dakota Creek Roadhouse. &...
Five local businesses will participate in the Country Collection spring arts and crafts show at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds in Lynden this weekend...
Birch Bay plan clears population hurdle
The Birch Bay steering committee has learned a potential snag in the utilities chapter of their community plan has disappeared.They heard on March 6 that...
Dip in electric rates due in April
Electric rates in Blaine are going down, at least for a while. At their March 11 meeting, city council members adopted a staff recommendation to pass along...
Transit sales tax hike squeaks by with low turnout
Whatcom County voters gave enough thumbs up to the proposed sales tax hike supporting public transit to pass the measure by 55 percent of the vote. With...
NEXUS to cost fifty dollars for five years
Details continue to trickle out about how, and when, the proposed new NEXUS commuter lane will be in place at local borders. The good news is, it’...
Thu, Mar 7, 2002
The numbers on drinking and driving
Of the 41,821 fatalities in motor-vehicle crashes in the United States in 2000, 40 percent involved the use of alcohol, according to data from the National...
Bessie Andrews, Lenore Westman, Mary Onyon, Elaine Murphy and Elinor Blakely of Blaine’s Deborah Rebekah Lodge #321, a charitable society affiliated...
Elder Service Providers is hosting its 7th annual Caregiver Conference, Saturday, March 16 at the Best Western Lakeway Inn & Conference Center in Bellingham...
MATURE ADULTS Help with housing decisions
Choosing housing or long term care solutions can be a tricky business for older adults, but two recent publications can give you the information you need...
In a sea of 132 teams from 30 schools participating in the Whatcom County math championships last Saturday, Blaine students stood out.Sixth grader Patrick...
Local students climbing the scholastic ladder
Isaac P. Gilman, son of Suzanne and Eric Gilman of West 44th Street in Vancouver, formerly of Blaine, has been named to the Merit List at Kenyon College...
No fee for credit card payments at Birch Bay district
Birch Bay Water and Sewer District commissioners have opted for the district to pick up the cost of customers paying their bills by credit card.In his ...
The bill to rename highway 99 after black civil war soldier William P. Stewart instead of confederate president Jefferson Davis died in the hands of the...
Borderites are going to state finals
The Trackima...To YakimaThis year will mark the Borderite boys’ 21st appearance at the state basketball tournament.The boys went to State six times...
Lend an earand a hand to a neighbor
According to a survey done by the U.S. Department of Education, one in five adults in Whatcom County is illiterate. And for them, illiteracy becomes a ...
Older Articles: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251
Subscribe to the News
RSS Feed