Eight year old actress, Kayleigh Finnegan, stars in the new movie “Shattered” The Lowell Elementary School student plays the sister of an unstable boy in a southern political family with a sinister past. Kayleigh says acting is work, ” work is involved because you then have to be home-schooled and there is still work involved…
According to a survey conducted by WWU Center for Economic and Business Research on behalf of the City of Bellingham, Bellingham residents rate their quality of life high but still have concerns regarding homelessness, housing affordability and economic development, in that order. 94% of the respondents rate the city’s quality of life as either excellent…
Whatcom County’s unemployment rate in February, 5.9%, was down nearly a full percentage point from last year and just about one-half percent from last month. Whatcom County employers added 1900 jobs compared to last years numbers. 900 of these created jobs are State and Local Government positions. Nearly every employment sector is up.
The Lynden legislator wants to assist agencies that focus on helping developmentally disabled adults vvin Whatcom County and beyond. Cascade Connections in Whatcom County along with similar agencies in the state of Washington need more state money. Buys says he is attempting to find these agencies additional funding. “People have a passion for helping the…
Iranian born Canadian, Ghobad Ghasempour, was taken into custody Tuesday, March 28. The Seattle PI reports that he is charged with conspiring to ship a device used to calibrate missile guidance systems to Iran. Federal prosecutors are still in search of two other men who assisted Ghasempour smuggle items out of the United States to…
The Federal Building finished in 1913 and one of Bellingham’s Postal Centers, is scheduled to receive extensive renovation starting in April. Some people who still have their mail delivered to PO Boxes in the building, are going to see some changes. If you are one of these PO Box holders you will want to stop…
Ostrom’s Mushroom Farms will be closing it’s Everson facility in June. The farm is “small, aging and no longer cost effective to operate, it has become increasingly difficult to attract labor to the farm” says Ostrom. The closure will effect 65 employees. Fred Meyer, Haggen, Safeway and Whole Foods all carry Ostrom’s Mushrooms.
March 30, 2017 Earlier this month I learned from the news media that Whatcom County, along with many other counties in Washington, is listed on a federal web-site as having “enacted policies which limit cooperation Immigration and Customs Enforcement” (ICE), a component agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is in…
I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power.
To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.