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Whatcom Day Academy preschool teachers soon will be helping to improve early childhood literacy education across northwest Washington.

The Whatcom County independent school recently won a $30,000 grant to document specific literacy teaching practices and then share those ideas with early…

Sylvia Tag, a librarian at Western Washington University, grew up in the United States, the daughter of a Scandinavian father and an Egyptian mother.
With the political revolt in that country, she has stayed in e-mail contact with relatives on her mother's side in Alexandria,…

As a dragon emerged from the blue waves before them, a group of Happy Valley third-graders broke into a measured scream.
The students weren't at risk of losing life or limb. The sea was in a classroom, and the dragon was a puppet, but it didn't make it any less fun for the…

Whatcom County Executive Pete Kremen acknowledges that his job takes much of his time.
So when deciding whether to run for re-election, he had a long discussion with his wife, Fidela. In the end, he got her support to run for another four-year term.

Arlan Norman, dean of the College of Sciences and Technology at Western Washington University, will be retiring this summer.

Norman has been the dean since 2003 and was the first dean of the college when ��������’s colleges were reorganized in 2002.

The No. 1 reason Mead and Central Valley school district officials think their capital improvement bonds failed Tuesday: the economy.

“I had dozens of discussions with people who have talked about many things that they are dealing with as far as (economic) issues,” said Thomas Rockefeller…

Interfaith Coalition of Whatcom County is presenting an afternoon of spiritual music Saturday, Feb. 12.
The choir festival begins at 1 p.m. at Church of the Assumption, 2116 Cornwall Ave.
Choirs from 10 congregations that are members of Interfaith Coalition will each present a…