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Roadwork will delay Mount Rainier park-goers
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 2 hours ago
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Staff writer Crews will resume work Friday on 10 miles of Stevens Canyon Road, the major east-west road in Mount Rainier National Park. This will be the second and final season of road rehabilitation that began last summer by Tucci and Sons, Inc. of
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Meridian High School's Old Main building comes down after 91 years
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 7 hours ago
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It was a bittersweet day Monday, May 20, as staff and current and former students of Meridian High School watched demolition start on the school's nearly 100-year-old Old Main building. Once the Old Main building, built in 1922, is demolished and
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Greens to Corps: ‘Comprehensive' coal study a must
Longview :: TX :: USA | 8 hours ago
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Army Corps of Engineers must undertake a comprehensive, region-wide study of all possible impacts of three remaining proposals to export coal from Wyoming and Montana out of Northwest ports to China, public health and environmental groups said
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Northern Whatcom County beaches closed to recreational shellfish harvesting
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 10 hours ago
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The state Department of Health has closed beaches in northern Whatcom County to recreational shellfish harvesting because of unsafe levels of the biotoxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning. The ban affects beaches from Point Whitehorn north
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Tax hike on garbage transfer stations to go to new Ferndale library
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 11 hours ago
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The City Council raised the solid-waste utility tax from 12 to 12.5 percent on Monday, May 20, to help cover $1.05 million it has agreed to pay for construction of a new library west of City Hall...The 7-0 vote was taken after Ferndale voters on
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Whatcom's housing affordability index hits new high
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 12 hours ago
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Even as home prices are rising in Whatcom County, homes are still more affordable than they have been in years. Whatcom County's affordability index was 159.5 in the first quarter of 2013, according to the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at
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Work to begin soon on Wharf-Boulevard roundabout in Bellingham
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 12 hours ago
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The City Council has approved Ram Construction Co.'s $1.14 million bid for construction of a roundabout at the snarl of asphalt where State, Forest and Wharf streets link up with the Boulevard. Bellingham-based Ram was the lowest of six bidders on
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Brewers' Lohse to miss next start
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 12 hours ago
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The Sports Network Brewers veteran pitcher Kyle Lohse will miss his next start on Saturday against the Pirates with what manager Ron Roenicke called "irritation" in his right elbow. Lohse signed a three-year, $33 million contract with the Brewers one
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Bellingham woman gets nine years for role in local drug ring
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 18 hours ago
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A Bellingham woman who was involved in a drug ring that distributed methamphetamine and heroin throughout Whatcom County was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday, May 21, according to the U.S...Rosie Castaneda, 37, pleaded guilty to conspiracy
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Bellingham council offers cut-rate lease to dance group for Parkade space
Bellingham :: WA :: USA | 18 hours ago
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On a 5-2 vote, City Council has approved giving a local dance group a below-market rental rate for lease of retail space inside the city's Parkade on Commercial Street. But the deal comes with one big catch: To get the lease on the 3,847-square-foot
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