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Program on sea star wasting disease kicks off series

A marine invertebrate expert will kick off the 2014-15 Discovery Speaker Series with a program Thursday on sea star wasting disease.

Presented by the South Sound Estuary Association, the free six-part series brings experts to the South Sound to talk about issues…

Whatcom’s GDP jumps 8.6 percent in 2013

Whatcom County’s penchant for making things continues to grow substantially, according to a new federal report.

This area’s gross domestic product grew 8.6 percent in 2013 compared to the previous year, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.…

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Ice cream social will honor retired Bellingham public health nurse Anne Brown

When she was a child, Anne Brown’s family members treated themselves to ice cream every year on the date they landed in New York City in 1939 to escape the Nazi terror in their native Germany.

Decades later, Brown and her own family still gather for ice cream every…

Survey indicates cross-border shopping becoming routine in Whatcom County

Even with a weakening loonie last winter, significantly more Canadians are coming down to shop in Whatcom County than six years ago.

That is one of the insights from a vehicle survey recently released by the Whatcom Council of Governments. The survey estimates 247,…

Ferndale music teacher’s two sons to play with Whatcom Symphony

Joanne Donnellan, a longtime Ferndale music educator who was concertmaster for Whatcom Symphony Orchestra for years, has two sons who’ll be performing in the WSO’s opening concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, at Mount Baker Theatre.

Her son Grant, a professor of music at Western Washington…

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