Beber's blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
New car sales take big drop Bellingham Herald, WA - 1 hour ago Across the US, sales of new cars have been down sharply, and Whatcom County is no exception. In May, consumers purchased 223 new cars in the county, ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- A man accused of attacking a woman camping in Bellingham's Maritime Heritage Park has been charged with rape.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
A man accused of attacking a woman camping in Bellingham's Maritime Heritage Park has been charged with rape. Bail for the 36-year-old man...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Unfortunately it looks like this event already happened on April 25. Click here for more info and images. Anyone know if this was a one time thing or a yearly event? There was also an electronic arts festival (BEAF) April 23-26. BTW, for those of you in the Seattle area, the Decibal Festival 2008 is September 15-28 .
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Anna Walters, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 7--BELLINGHAM -- Silver Beach Road, the primary car-access point to lower Whatcom Falls Park across from Kenoyer Drive, will be closed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
By Kie Relyea, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 6--BELLINGHAM -- An outpouring of community support has helped the nonprofit Mother Baby Center raise much of the $60,000 it needs to bail itself out of financial straits for the short term.
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
CNNMoney.com recently ranked Whatcom County as the 28th best place in the United States to live and launch a new business. In 2004, Bellingham led the state in business creation, with 14 new ventures per 1,000 residents, according to the Washington State Employment Security Department....
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
By Dan Radil, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 6--We seem to hear the term "sustainability" quite a bit these days, maybe so much so that we've become numb to its meaning and purpose.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... include: Breaking Fenrir’s Chains (Tacoma), Rootchildren (Tacoma), Make It Hot Press (Bellingham), Bloodlust (Tacoma), Earthlight Books (Walla Walla), Prisoner’s Dilemma (Seattle), Just Seeds (Portland), Entarchy (Tacoma), Malkriados (Portland), Blackrose (Portland), Evergreen Animal Rights Network (Olympia), Strangers in the Tangled Wilderness (Portland), Eberhardt Press (Portland), Fueling...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The 15th-century Gatehouse in Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, has fallen into decay, its southern end in ruins, while the 3,000-year-old earthworks at Huggate, East Yorkshire, are under threat from plough damage and the 13th-century Tarset Castle, near Bellingham, Northumberland, which played a key role in England-Scotland border disputes now faces another formidable enemy - erosion.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
By The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 4--Where to see fireworks Haggen Family Fourth of July Celebration: Enjoy a free, 20-minute fireworks display over Bellingham Bay. The show will begin about 10:30 p.m.
anacronyms (Free subscription) | yesterday
... water, we headed south. We had to stop to get some clip-on sunglasses for Chris, and we stopped in Bellingham, in Old Fairhaven, for dinner. Fairhaven has undergone a revival over the last 20 years. I first started going there in 1987 or 88, when I’d go down for dinner at The Colophon Cafe, which at the time was attached to Village Books. Village books has moved to its own building down...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Granville's fiance Paul Bellingham then held a pair of nunchucks, a martial arts weapon, above his head and shouted "I'm going to gouge your eyes out" during an argument over an unpaid bill for stable fees at Red Hill Farm livery yard in Newent, Gloucestershire, the court heard.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The AAA survey finds the highest prices for gasoline at Bellingham at $4.46 and the lowest at Spokane at $4.13. Some other cities: Seattle $4.38, Tacoma $4.35, Olympia $4.38, Vancouver $4.33, Yakima $4.30 and Tri-Cities $4.27.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over the years, Nancy Powell of Bellingham has eriodically dipped into her 401(k) retirement plan before she retired. She took out money to take care of medical debt, and later to pay off credit card bills and a truck loan.There would have been $50,000 in the plan had she not tapped into it, but Powell felt she had no choice at the time.Q: Is there a good time to borrow against or withdraw money...
