Thu, Mar 17, 2005
Giventhe gravity of my responsibility as a music reporterfor The Northern Light, I naturally appeared at our performingarts center 15 minutes early Saturday...
Localofficials worry about border
Border inspectors working at the Blaine crossing havea new building to look forward to that may be finishedjust before the 2010 Winter Olympics, but the...
Legaleagles spar over real eagles and other birds
“It’slike a Perry Mason movie in there,” saidDonna Lee Elke as she left last week’s Blaine planningcommission hearing, the second...
Thesetrees are far from being free
Blainecity council has authorized city finance director MeredithRiley to prepare the payment to Robert Carruthers forhis land abutting the Blaine airport...
Thu, Mar 10, 2005
Twospecial concerts in support of Blaine community theaterwill be taking place on March 12 & 13,7 p.m. at the theater location in the Blaine InternationalCenter...
Volunteersneeded for state math championship
Youdon’t have to be a math whizto lend a hand at the 2005 Washington State Math ChampionshipSaturday, March 19, at the Blaine school campus. Volunteersare...
There’severything you need at the home show
Washingtonsenator Maria Cantwell is promising to block administrationefforts to raise Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)rates for electricity, changing...
Allthe children may be above average in Lake Woebegone but ... in Washington state?
GarrisonKeillor claims all the children are above average in LakeWoebegone, but I have not found that to be the case inthe schools I have been involved...
Harborroad facing indefinite fix delay
Theclosure of Drayton Harbor Road to through traffic maylast a lot longer than anyone at first anticipated, accordingto Whatcom County engineer Joe Rutan...
Cityenlists Senator Murray’s help
Almost50 years ago, when the freeway was put through the middleof town, short-sighted planning left Blaine without anysouthbound exits past the one almost...
MarineDrive reconstruction to get underway
The first phase of the $30 plus million project that willultimately relocate city wastewater treatment facilitiesto Marine Drive gets underway this year...
Propertysales boom results in tax windfall
Thehighlight of the city of Blaine’s year-end financialreport is evidence of a run on Blaine real estate. It startedwith a bang in 2003, when the...
Thu, Mar 3, 2005
Cityhonors service of its employees
SandyPeterson got a pen for one year as Blaine’sassistant public works director. “He’s gotthe shortest tenure and the longest bio,&rdquo...
Foam & cement:A look at construction
Donand Debbie Scherck are building a new 3,500 square foothouse on Allan Street out of styrofoam and concrete usinginsulated concrete forms (ICF) made ...
Researchersmonitor continuing decline in seabirds
“Youhave to get up early for ducks,” said Dave Nysewander,a trained biologist and project leader for the WashingtonDepartment of Fish and Wildlife...
TheWhatcom County Sheriff’s Officehas responded to 453 car prowls throughout the county in2004.
Icelandicdescendant reflects upon marina life in Blaine harbor
In theearly 1970s, a man of Icelandic descent became the successorto Berg Shipyard on the Blaine Harbor landfill. He namedthe family business the Westman...
Plannersand public in for heavy slog as Sea Grass hearings continue
TheBlaine planning commission opened hearings last weekon the 22-acre Seagrass Cottages development plannedfor Semiahmoo spit. For many of the 200 plus...
Residentsapprehensive of future impacts
Blainecity manager Gary Tomsic had to coax testimony out ofa reluctant group of east Blaine residents and propertyowners attending a public hearing on ...
Thu, Feb 24, 2005
SenatorCantwell urges citizens to join online petition
SenatorMaria Cantwell has started an online petition to senda message to the White House that the northwest doesn’twant to pay more for power.
TheTrillium Corporation sold 150 acres to local developersJim Kaemingk and Fred Bovenkamp last week for a planned 450unit partially gated community to ...
Localman connects with Iwo Jima
One of the best-known WW II photographs shows six soldiersraising a large American flag atop Iwo Jima’s MountSuribachi. The 60th anniversary of that...
Matureadults - aging gracefully
Whydo we age? What can we do about it?“I was taller then,” laughed Chuck Stanfordat his Valley View Road home, reviewing his days as a minorleague...
MarkNadler comes to Blaine with worldwide acclaim and Broadway fame
Arearesidents are in for a world-class and funny treat onSaturday, March 12 when screen and stage star Mark Nadlerappears on stage at the Blaine performing...
WhatcomCounty is asking cities to invest in building the newinterim jail facility in Bellingham in exchange for jailcredit that could more than triple ...
It’sa no-go on Drayton Harbor Road for the time being
Recentrains softened the bank along the south side of DraytonHarbor Road so much that the road began washing out,so Whatcom County put up temporary barricades...
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