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A Western Washington University student was crowned Miss Whatcom County Saturday, March 10.

Kimball Gainor, 20, got the top prize in the Miss Whatcom County Pageant held at Whatcom Community College, along with $3,000 in scholarship money.

Mr. Hune was a very insightful teacher. In my ninth-grade yearbook he wrote “to a future newspaper reporter.”
How did he know?
I do not believe Mr. Hune, who taught the newspaper class at my junior high school, realized I would later venture into an enjoyable career…

Monroe voters like their members of Congress to be Republican. But for a dozen years, they've gone without.

That streak could end this fall.

As a result of redistricting, Monroe finds itself in a physically reshaped and…

Seattle novelist Amy Hatvany pays close attention to the way society ticks and how people interact with one another. That's probably why she pursued a degree in sociology at Western Washington University back in the 1990s, and it is certainly reflected in the subjects she has chosen to…

A little journalism lesson learned: Sometimes, the best way to find out about something is to stop talking to spokespeople — and start listening to their stomachs.

With spiking local gas prices being partially blamed on the Feb. 17 fire that swept through the BP…