Fourth-graders’ families get first dibs on Christmas trees

  EVERETT — The U.S. Forest Service is spreading holiday cheer to fourth graders across the country. As part of the national Every Kid in a Park initiative, all fourth-graders ...

What we’re thankful for this Thanksgiving

  Reflecting on Thanksgiving each year brings much to be thankful for as we near the 40-year mark of working in the family community newspaper business.   The one word that ...

Judy Rodeman

  Judy Rodeman, born Jan. 14, 1954, died peacefully at the University of Washington Medical Center on Nov. 4, 2018. She succumbed to leukemia after valiantly fighting it for 10 ...

Dennis Nieuwendorp

  Dennis L. (Denny) Nieuwendorp, born July 6, 1951, in Bellingham, passed away on Friday, Nov. 2, 2018.   Denny grew up in Lynden with his brothers Mark and Steve, raised by ...

Jerry Vogel

  Jerry Vogel, 55, was called home to be with his Heavenly Father on Nov. 14, 2018, after an eight-month battle with cancer. He passed in the comfort of his own home with family ...

Gladys Ammerman

  Devoted wife, mother and grandmother with a steadfast love for her Lord, Gladys Elaine Ammerman, age 81, died on Tuesday Nov. 13, 2018 at St. Joseph Hospital. She was ready to ...

Winston Buford, Janice Metzger-Buford

  Winston V. Buford, born June 2, 1929, died July 5, 2018, and Janice S. Metzger-Buford, born July 14, 1930, died Oct. 14, 2018.   The services for them are at noon on Friday, ...

Michael Bartelds

  Michael Bartelds, age 59, of Maple Falls, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Funeral arrangements are pending with Gillies Funeral Home and Cremation Services.

Nicholas Bruland

  Nicholas Bruland, age 35, of Nooksack, passed away at St. Joseph Hospital on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. Funeral arrangements are pending with Gillies Funeral Home and Cremation ...

Robert Nichols

  Robert Nichols, 61, of Clyde, North Carolina passed away peacefully at Spicewood Cottages on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.   He was preceded in death by his parents, William Carl ...