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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) promoted Harmit Gill to serve as the Blaine area port director at the end of March. The Northern Light sat down with Gill to discuss what he hopes to …
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By Grace McCarthy |
7/13/22 06:53 PM
• Blaine High School boys basketball team lost 64-51 to an undefeated Lynden Christian January 12, 2022, in the Blaine High School gymnasium.
• Blaine girls basketball beat Mount Baker …
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By Ian Haupt |
1/4/23 06:06 PM
A cable that shorted under Semiahmoo Resort left Semiahmoo and some surrounding areas without power for about eight hours Tuesday morning.
City of Blaine Public Works Department crews were …
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8/2/22 09:16 PM
An elderly woman from B.C. was found dead in a vehicle that was fully submerged in water at the boat launch in Blaine Harbor.
At about 7:20 a.m. on September 29, Blaine police officers responded …
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Jami Makan |
10/9/19 06:21 PM
Blaine is about to have an oyster festival.
The Blaine Tourism Advisory Committee (BTAC) recently approved a motion for the city to start planning a downtown oyster festival for Saturday, October …
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By Grace McCarthy |
8/31/22 07:31 PM
Anyone who has ever driven through Seattle is familiar with the daily congestion, made worse by rush hour or game day traffic.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) released …
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Kira Erickson |
9/4/19 05:50 PM
All of Blaine City Council met January 10 for the first time in council chambers since August, when it voted to conduct online meetings until governor Jay Inslee lifted the state mask mandate. …
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By Grace McCarthy |
1/12/22 07:25 PM
Whatcom County Library System (WCLS) will move forward with plans to renovate the Vogt family homestead into a library express after Washington state legislature approved the project’s …
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By Ian Haupt |
4/26/23 07:30 PM
With a knack for sweets and vision to create a more inclusive community, Blaine resident Tana Reneau opened a buttermint business that employs people with intellectual and developmental …
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By Georgia Costa |
1/20/22 04:44 PM
Two stop signs expected to be installed at the intersection of Birch Bay Drive and Birch Point Road within the next month have Birch Bay residents concerned over safety.
Whatcom County Council …
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By Grace McCarthy |
3/1/23 07:16 PM
Many Blaine and Birch Bay residents received a newspaper called “The Flame” in the mail last week without a mailing label that left them with questions as to why they had received it and …
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By Ian Haupt |
1/19/22 08:11 PM
The Blaine Borderites American Legion AA baseball team qualified for the state tournament in Yakima after going 3-1 in the district tournament in Port Angeles July 15-16. The boys came up short in …
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8/10/22 07:01 PM
Devastating floods that hit Whatcom County earlier this week forced hundreds of evacuations for residents along the Nooksack River and have emergency responders scrambling to understand the extent of …
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By Grace McCarthy |
11/17/21 08:02 PM
As reported in the March 31 issue of The Northern Light, following recent elections, the Birch Bay library project is currently on hold while the Whatcom County Library System (WCLS) evaluates …
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By Christine Perkins, WCLS executive director |
4/6/22 07:49 PM
A research institute at Western Washington University is partnering with two Canadian universities to study several cross-border topics in the Cascadia region, including the impacts of pandemic …
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By Grace McCarthy |
3/22/23 06:23 PM
The Editor:
How would Blaine react to a mass shooting incident? We should work on issues of angst and community building. Let’s encourage “we” rather than “they and …
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6/1/22 07:23 PM
Question: I have noticed a high number of cars and trucks without their lights on in bad weather. But here’s the thing: About 75 percent of them are black, dark blue, dark gray – the …
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By Doug Dahl |
3/16/22 06:30 PM
A 30-year-old woman was pulled from a burning vehicle in the early morning of April 11 after crashing into an electrical pole on Birch Bay-Lynden Road and entangling the vehicle in live wires. …
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By Ian Haupt |
4/13/22 07:21 PM
