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2023 general elections: Whatcom County Council District No. 5:

Editor’s note: This week, the Ferndale Record is publishing candidate statements for the following contested elections: Whatcom County Executive, County Council Districts No. 4, ...

2023 general elections: Whatcom County Council District No. 4

Editor’s note: This week, the Ferndale Record is publishing candidate statements for the following contested elections: Whatcom County Executive, County Council Districts No. 4, ...

2023 general elections: Whatcom County Executive

Editor’s note: This week, the Ferndale Record is publishing candidate statements for the following contested elections: Whatcom County Executive, County Council Districts No. 4, ...

Whatcom County News Briefs: Oct. 18, 2023

Serve on WCLS board of trustees WHATCOM — Whatcom County Library System (WCLS) seeks a Whatcom County resident who loves libraries to fill a term on its board of trustees. This five-year ...

Gallery: Vintage Trail

Sept. 22-23, visitors were invited to see different craft and antique vendors along the Vintage Trail at 10 different venues and farms across Whatcom County. Photos were taken at Hazel ...

Pumpkin-growing contest to return next year

Pumpkin seeds foster relationship between sister cities Ferndale and Minamiboso, Japan By Taras McCurdie Staff Reporter FERNDALE — In 1988, Kathy Chasteen started a pumpkin-growing ...

Ferndale Record wants your military service stories, photographs

WHATCOM — We at the Lynden Tribune and Ferndale Record newspapers are making plans for our annual Veterans Day special section.  The past two years we have received several stories ...

Ready to be spooked?

Local haunted house events this weekend and next  By Taras McCurdie Staff Reporter WHATCOM — With Halloween less than two weeks away, it is time to finish carving those pumpkins ...

Gallery: Ferndale violinist kicks off Lynden Music Festival

Ferndale resident Carolyn Canfield was one of the dozens of musicians who performed at this year’s Lynden Music Festival, Oct. 11-15. Canfield, on the violin, spent many years in ...

Ferndale keeps floodplain building clearance at 1 foot

Other Whatcom towns on the ‘volatile’ Nooksack River are going to 2 feet By Cal Bratt For the Record FERNDALE — Until FEMA officially updates floodplain maps for the Nooksack ...