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Benchmark milk price jumps $1.94/cwt.

The Agriculture Department announced the November Federal Order benchmark Class III milk price at $16.76 per hundredweight (cwt.), up $1.94 from October and $1.46 above November 2015. ...

Caring for plants in harsh winter conditions

In the last couple of years, we’ve come to associate winter in the Pacific Northwest with mild temperatures and minimal precipitation. This year is so far proving altogether different. ...

EQIP funding again available for dairy nutrient management

SPOKANE — USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington State will again make financial assistance available for Animal Feeding Operations and Confined Animal Feeding ...

Celebrating the Olde-Fashioned way

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Mutchler opts not to reappoint Goldsmith to Planning Commission

City Council did not approve mayor’s recommendation for new commissioner FERNDALE — At Monday evening’s Ferndale City Council meeting, Ferndale Mayor Jon Mutchler announced that ...

FSD hosting holiday event

District hopes to foster community connections with feature movie, choir concert on Tuesday By Ashley Hiruko [email protected] FERNDALE — The Ferndale School District will ...

Hospice auction raises $415,000

BELLINGHAM — The Whatcom Hospice Foundation’s 16th annual “Light the Night” gala auction on Nov. 12 hosted 377 guests and raised just over $415,000 for Whatcom Hospice. Hospice ...

State highway lights being switched to LED

WHATCOM ­— Washington State Department of Transportation crews are retrofitting lighting poles along various highways around the state. They are replacing lights with energy-efficient ...

Recent Municipal Court results

Everson-Nooksack Municipal Court was held Nov. 10, 2016, with Michael Bobbink presiding as judge, and the following were found guilty: Nicholaus Kendall Campo, 31, of Bellingham, third-degree ...

Licensing offices switching to new computers over this weekend

WHATCOM — County Auditor Debbie Adelstein reports that all licensing offices will close either by 4:30 or 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, and stay closed over this weekend, resuming normal ...