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Lab hopes to help turn high-tech ideas into Bellingham businesses

Kemp first saw the issue of not enough high-tech jobs in this area while attending Western Washington University in the late 1990s. After graduation, he couldn't find work in this area and eventually moved to Seattle, working for Microsoft. His role at Microsoft included helping launch鈥

Artist revels in fishy project

Carol Rae is a multi-disciplinary artist who has worked in every realm from bookbinding and costume design to voodoo doll-making -- so spawning a fishy project to draw attention to the environment was no problem.

With great glee, she has created a school of papier-鈥

Ethel Stockton, key figure in downtown Bellingham debate, dies at age 94

Ethel Stockton, the business owner steeped in contentious debate about the future of downtown Bellingham after Bellis Fair opened, died Wednesday, Sept. 1, in Mount Vernon. She was 94.

After her career in the paint and design business, Stockton moved to Mazatl谩n, Mexico, where she ran a鈥

Bellingham women break new ground with Kenyan school

Two Bellingham friends are making waves in the educational system of Kenya.

Several years ago, Jeana King and Debra Akre organized a free high school in a dirt-poor area east of Nairobi, the capital. Last March, the school celebrated its first graduating class of 27 students, 18 of whom鈥

Artist profile: Bryan Forsloff

Smooth-jazz guitarist Bryan Forsloff, 47, has been performing regularly at the Hotel Bellwether's Harborside Bistro for several years. He's recently released his new CD, "The Final Touch," which features local musicians Bill MacDonough, Mark Kelly, Tom Anastasio, Mike Black鈥

Bellingham man's car goes from Canada to Mexico on one tank of fuel

Bellingham resident Craig Henderson has driven the car he built in the 1980s from Canada to Mexico on one tank of diesel, getting an average of 119.1 miles per gallon, he said, and shattering the old record the car set back in 1986.

Henderson started his border-to-border drive Sunday, Aug鈥

MAX Update No. 57: The Avion Goes 100+ MPG from Canada to Mexico

Craig Henderson is my hero. He was an automotive technology student at Western Washington University when he and his friend, Bill Green, designed and built the Avion. Other than paint and graphics, it doesn't look much different than it did in 1986, when it first broke 100 mpg on the鈥

Skyline alum is named outstanding grad at 草榴社区

While touring the Italian art scene in Siena, Italy, in summer 2009, Wesleigh Richardson noticed a seemingly insignificant detail in the 14th century 鈥淢adonna Enthroned with Saints鈥 painting by Italian-born Duccio di Buoninsegna 鈥 Arabic writing.

Many people might鈥

Sherri Bennett named YWCA executive director

Sherri Bennett has been named executive director of the YWCA Clark County, Y officials announced Monday.

Bennett, currently the director of programs at the YWCA, was selected by the organization鈥檚 board of directors following a national search.

Wa-Hi grad noted in book by Teach for America

Seven years since graduating from Western Washington University, Bickford is being recognized as an exceptional teacher in a book recapping 20 years of success stories through Teach for America. The national education corps draws and trains top college graduates to become skilled teachers.

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