To celebrate 26 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpts are from the April 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: The Whatcom County based Trillium Corporation purchased land in Tierra del Fuego, Chile to log the lenga tree — [Read More...]
Editor’s Note: Lummi Island has been spared the wrecking ball. In 2015, the Lummi Island Heritage Trust secured a deal to purchase the 105-acre Lummi Island quarry property. The April issue of Whatcom Watch will have an update on the quarry purchase. by Albert W. Marshall It is difficult now [Read More...]
To celebrate 25 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpts are from the February 1997 issue. Editor’s Note: In 1996, the Madrona Development Corporation of Seattle proposed the Chuckanut Ridge Planned Development. The proposal would have built 1,464 units on [Read More...]
To celebrate 25 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we are printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The article below is from the January 1997 issue of Whatcom Watch. by Jemae Pope and Aaron Ostrom Washington residents drove over 50 billion miles in 1995. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to [Read More...]
To celebrate 25 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpts are from the December 1996 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: When this article was written, the Gannett Corporated owned The Bellingham Herald. Knight Ridder acquired the paper in 2005. [Read More...]
To celebrate 25 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpts are from the October-November 1996 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: In 1992, the Whatcom County Council passed the Conservation Futures Levy by a vote of 4-3. In 1995, a [Read More...]
To celebrate 25 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpts are from the September 1996 issue of Whatcom Watch. by Nicole Oliver Susie Stephens of the Northwest Bicycle Federation made a presentation to the Bellingham City Council at its August [Read More...]
To celebrate 25 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpts are from the August 1996 issue of Whatcom Watch. by Kurt Denke On June 17, 1996, Judge William L. Dwyer of the United States District Court ruled in favor of [Read More...]
To celebrate 25 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be printing excerpts from 20 years ago. The below excerpt is from the July 1996 issue of Whatcom Watch. by Erika Wittmann “No one has a clear idea of actually how many storm drains there are,” states Carl Weimer of [Read More...]
by David M. Schmalz Editor’s Note: In 1993, Whatcom County issued a shoreline substantial development permit to Cherry Point Industrial Park/Joseph Sheckter. The permit allowed the construction of a fourth pier at Cherry Point. Five citizen groups appealed the decision to the state Shoreline Hearings Board. The following article is [Read More...]