Scares inside

Halloween events coming up in Ferndale this weekend By Brent Lindquist [email protected] FERNDALE — For the past five years, Beth Hensley and her merry band of volunteers have ...

Gardening through the cold

Multiple varieties can survive the harsher seasons By Brent Lindquist [email protected] FERNDALE — Ferndale mayor Greg Hansen kicked off the Ferndale City Council’s Oct. 18 ...

Four vying for two school board spots

By Brent Lindquist [email protected] FERNDALE — Lee Anne Riddle and Andrew McLaurin are running to re-take seats 4 and 5 on the Ferndale School Board, and Steve Childs and Peggy ...

Whatcom County 4-H teams win awards at state fair

By Brenda Dunford Contributing writer WHATCOM — On Sept. 18, Whatcom County’s 4-H livestock judging teams competed at state in Puyallup. A 4-H (or FFA) judging contest is a contest ...

Great ShakeOut celebrates anniversary

For the 10th year in a row, hundreds of thousands of people in Washington state will participate in the world’s largest earthquake and tsunami drill: The Great ShakeOut.  At 10:21 ...

Louis Kingma

“It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” — Francis Drake Louis Kingma, age 94, died peacefully with his family by his side. He enjoyed ...

Betty Oberwortmann

With both sadness and gladness, we share that Betty Duncan Oberwortmann passed away Monday evening, Oct. 11. Betty was born on March 8, 1929, to Vernon Van Duke Duncan and Elizabeth ...

David Maricle

David (Dave) E. Maricle, age 65, died peacefully at home in his sleep on Oct. 12. Dave was born in 1956 to Theodore and Dolores Maricle in Bellingham. He graduated from Nooksack Valley ...

Ann Hibbs

Ann Elizabeth Hibbs, age 96, of Lynden passed away Saturday, Oct. 16. Ann was born on July 18, 1925 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She graduated from high school in Pennsylvania and ...

Carol Lagerwey

Carol Ann Lagerwey, age 84, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 17 at the Christian Health Care Center. She is remembered for her kind and friendly spirit. She was always welcoming to friends ...