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Western鈥檚 small business center helps hundreds in 2015

Western Washington University鈥檚 Small Business Development Center has announced its Whatcom County economic-impact figures for 2015.

Among the highlights from last year鈥檚 efforts by SBDC staff:

Leadership students present community projects
Professor helps Cambodian university establish climate change program
Bellingham hemp advocate hopes to change the way we build

Pam Bosch of Bellingham is trying to build a future for industrial hemp in the United States.

The 62-year-old artist acknowledges that hemp, which generally refers to the inside stalk and seeds of the cannabis plant, gets a bad rap because of its association with marijuana. But she says鈥

Albertsons to close its Bellingham store May 7

A longtime grocery store in the Birchwood neighborhood will be closing in May.

The Albertsons store at 1650 Birchwood Ave. is scheduled to close on Saturday, May 7, said Sara Osborne, a spokeswoman for the company. Albertsons has worked out an agreement with the union UFCW 21 to move the鈥

草榴社区 pledges better response to victims after review of threats

Western Washington University police and officials responded appropriately after a threat against a student prompted cancellation of classes in November, according to a consultant鈥檚 report released March 2.

However, consultant John N. Vinson, the chief of police at the University of鈥

Camps for youth in Whatcom County for summer 2016

Thinking summer yet? If you鈥檙e thinking a day camp or overnight camp adventure might be good for your child this summer, here are some sneak peeks at summer camps in our area.

A few spring camps are included in this list.

York Neighborhood to discuss town/gown relations March 9
5 great rock-climbing routes in the Cascades

Climber Blake Herrington has scaled more than 100 peaks around the world, from Patagonia to all the gorges around Chulilla, Spain.

These days, the Western Washington University alumnus is back in his home state, where he learned to climb 10 years ago. He鈥檚 written a guidebook, 鈥淐ascades鈥

WCC workshops point boys, girls toward nontraditional careers

A 鈥淕uys & Guts鈥 workshop aims to steer middle-school boys toward the careers in the medical profession that are more frequently held by women with presentations and activities from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Whatcom Community College.

Participants will visit a biology lab鈥

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