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Sehome hires Walton to replace 鈥楳r. Mariner鈥 as baseball coach

The best way to replace a coaching legend, of course, is to hire another legend.

That鈥檚 exactly what Sehome athletic director Colin Cushman did when he announced Thursday, Oct. 29, that Monte Walton will take the reins as coach of the Sehome baseball program, replacing 鈥淢r. Mariner鈥濃

Attracting top tech talent at Seattle Startup Week

Are you sitting on the next great, big idea? Ever dream of leaving your current job and venturing out on your own?

Thousands of entrepreneurs and mentors from the region are gathering for a series of events as part of Seattle Startup Week.

Event topics range from obtaining鈥

Carrie Brownstein: Before 'Portlandia,' a rocky childhood and a killer band

Carrie Brownstein's new memoir "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" barely mentions "Portlandia," her hit TV series. The omission is intentional; Brownstein has a story to tell, and it doesn't include satirical sketches about a certain element of local culture.

Crowd sings 鈥榊ou Are My Sunshine鈥 for WCC鈥檚 Heiner at memorial

On what would have been Harold Heiner鈥檚 birthday Oct. 27, a crowd of people sang 鈥淵ou Are My Sunshine鈥 in the building named after the 24-year college president.

Friends, family and former colleagues sang the song at the end of a public memorial as a tribute to Heiner, who died Oct. 17 at鈥

Daniel Beard discusses water policy in the West at Dixie Center

On Friday, Oct. 30, Citizens for Dixie鈥檚 Future is sponsoring 鈥淎n Evening with Daniel Beard.鈥 Daniel Beard is the former commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency responsible for the vast majority of the dam construction and management in the West. He is calling for the鈥

Bennink to discuss business sustainability Oct. 22
Bleedingham offers horror, gory short films

Langley J. West, who founded the festival in 2012 with Western Washington University graduates Gary Washington and Avielle Heath, said in a 2012 opinion piece in The Bellingham Herald that 鈥淏leedingham provides an arena for low-budget filmmakers to practice their skills, show the results and be鈥

ComiCon indulges cosplayers, comic-book fans Oct. 24

Travis Bundy, who lives in Auburn, owns and operates Creator鈥檚 Edge Press, an indie comic company. He鈥檚 also a writer and artist for two of his company鈥檚 releases, 鈥淛eff鈥 and 鈥淏illy Love Nibbles.鈥

Bundy attended Western Washington University from 1996 to 1999 and graduated with a bachelor鈥

Former WCC president Harold Heiner dies

Former longtime Whatcom Community College President Harold Heiner died Saturday, Oct. 17, at the age of 76 after a battle with Parkinson鈥檚 disease.

Heiner was instrumental in creating a central campus for WCC during his 24 years as president. Family and former colleagues say he will be鈥

Lean Enterprise Institute Accounting Awards Go to Professor and Student

A graduate of Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, and a professor at Northwood University, Midland, MI, are the winners of 2015 Excellence in Lean Accounting Awards from the nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI).
The awards were presented to Patricia Hart Timm PhD, CPA,鈥

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