Lucille Feenstra Clark

  Lucille Feenstra Clark was born in Bolsward, Friesland, the Netherlands, on March 6, 1920, and passed away on Nov. 1, 2019.   She was preceded in death by her husband, Peter ...

Robert James

  Robert Fred James went to be with his Lord on Oct. 31, 2019. He was 85 years old.   He was born Aug. 8, 1934, in Seattle to Fred and Alberta James. He grew up in Sumas and ...

Alice Briant

  Alice Briant, age 95, died on Oct. 12, 2019, at Birchwood Adult Family Home in Bellingham. She was the kindest, gentlest, smartest and sweetest person on earth and she will be ...

Betty Jean Mayo

  Betty Jean Mayo, age 94, a 22-year resident of Lynden, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, at Whatcom Hospice House in Bellingham.   Mrs. Mayo was born in Seattle on Nov. ...

Grace Gortsema

  Grace S. Gortsema, 97, went home to her Lord and Savior on Oct. 29, 2019.   Grace was born Feb. 4, 1922, in Grangeville, Idaho, to Gerben and Minnie (Sloot) Kingma. There ...

Nellie Vriesman

  Nellie Mae Vriesman, age 93, of Lynden, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019.   Funeral arrangements are pending with Gillies Funeral Home and ...

Mary Huff

  Mary Louise (Pruett) Huff, age 98, of Vancouver, Washington, and formerly of Lynden, passed into the arms of her loving Savior on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019.   Mary was born July ...

Letters to the Editor — Nov. 6, 2019

‘The Realities of Advanced Medical Intervention’   Some of life’s most simple pleasures — the first blooms of spring, summer days at the beach, crunchy leaves of fall, or ...

Council mulls major property tax hike

Increase would fund police needs, parks, a flawed court facility By Brent Lindquist [email protected] FERNDALE — Massive and terrible. Those were two words used by Ferndale ...

Close gaps widen in some Ferndale election races, narrow in others (Friday night update)

UPDATE: Paul Bulanov now trails Ali Hawkinson by 26 votes after leading by just one in last night’s updated vote count. Paul Shuey leads incumbent Teresa N. Taylor by 35 votes. Greg ...