august – 2018
Action Taken at June 5, 2018 Meeting Shall the commission: 80. Authorize the sale of one vessel for the nonpayment of moorage fees? An auction is scheduled to be held in the Squalicum Harbor office on June 28 for a 25-foot sailboat with unpaid moorage fees of $1,758. (7585/Consent Agenda [Read More...]
Compiled by Barry MacHale Action Taken at June 5, 2018 Meeting Shall the council: 87. Authorize the executive to award the low bid of $197,549 to Iverson Earth Works of Custer for levee repairs? (Council acting as the flood control district board of supervisors). The engineer’s estimate was $197,078. Four [Read More...]
Compiled by Boris Schleinkofer Action Taken at June 4, 2018 Meeting Shall the council: 75. Direct staff to work with the Governors Point owner and move forward with a wholesale water agreement? At the 6/29/2009 meeting, vote #140, the council denied a wholesale/retail water application to serve a proposed 141-lot [Read More...]
by Robert A. Duke Enter and Look Around — Free and Easy The front entrance to the doctor’s office is typically a patients’-only view of the health care system, but Whatcom offers a back door with a welcome mat inviting you to tour what we can usually only see when [Read More...]
The chair of the Mount Baker Group of the Sierra Club, Randy Walcott, took up the cause of protecting Blanchard State Forest and Blanchard Mountain from ongoing logging. In December 1998, he formally petitioned the Washington State Department of Natural Resources requesting that Blanchard Mountain be declared a natural resource [Read More...]
Starfish along the shore in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary in Washington State. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/gallery/image.php?siteName=nosimages&cat=Colorful%20Starfish by Nichole Schmitt As a child in the 1980s, I loved clam digging and oyster picking with Dad and Grandpa. Because Grandpa had a hard time walking the tide flats, we launched a small [Read More...]
Hikers enjoy the trail to Oyster Dome on Blanchard State Forest. Photo: Anna Hogenson by Mitch Friedman “Dad, is it true that Blanchard Mountain might be logged?” It hurt to hear those words from my daughter almost two years ago, reflecting the [Read More...]
Lorraine Loomis by Lorraine Loomis Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson didn’t have to take the culvert case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead of continuing the state’s shameful history of denying tribal treaty-reserved fishing rights, he could have chosen a path of cooperation that has [Read More...]
Vista area of Huntoon Drive, 1929. The road was closed to automobile traffic in 1975 and reopened to pedestrians-only in 1978. [Read More...]
Since January 2014, Whatcom Watch, has been rerunning articles from issues printed 20 years ago. The below article appeared in the August 1998 issue of Whatcom Watch. by Amy Kenna Recently, a concerned citizen wrote Whatcom Watch requesting an article on the environmental impact of automobiles on the Lake Whatcom [Read More...]