February-2017
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...]
This article reprinted with permission by Crosscut.com and first published December 13, 2016. by Nick Turner Canada’s recent approval for the construction of a pipeline in British Columbia could signal big changes for killer whales in the Puget Sound. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave the green light to a [Read More...]
Peter HeffelfingerPhoto: Evelyn Adams by Peter Heffelfinger In the middle of February we usually get a winter thaw: The cold lets up for a bit; the sun comes out a little brighter, and the hardy, over-wintering plants in the vegetable garden perk up, thinking of spring. After the [Read More...]
The coalition backing the following statement includes Citizens for a Healthy Bay, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, the Center for Food Safety, Snake River Waterkeeper, OneAmerica, the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project, Aqua Permanenté, the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Center for Environmental Law & Policy, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Spokane [Read More...]
Two seven-bedroom rentals loom over a 1910 cottage in single-family zoned area. If there are more than three unrelated people as tenants in the rentals they are classified as boarding houses and not permitted in a single-family zoned area. [Read More...]
Erik Dyrland with some kids at the Boys and Girls Club on Kentucky Street.photo: Jeff Judkins Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County by Kathryn Fentress The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Whatcom County (Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden and Blaine) is to enable all young people, [Read More...]
The Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival offers the Bellingham community an annual 10 day film festival of powerful, thought-provoking films on the rights of people and Earth. The Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival is composed of volunteers whose primary goal is to present the community with free films that will [Read More...]
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