Ferndale News

Ferndale vocalist Nancy Button's swing-and-jazz ensemble, Stirred Not Shaken, plays for this month's Chuckanut Radio Hour on Friday, April 25, 2014 at Whatcom Community College's Heiner Center Theater in Bellingham.

Most people who spoke during the hearing urged the council to keep pot businesses out of Ferndale, saying it wasn't something the city should be known for and that the industry wasn't family friendly.

Ferndale's Lauren Maley pitches against Blaine on her way to a 10-0 shutout in five innings, Monday, April 21, 2014 at Ferndale High.

Blaine's softball team picked up the pace in the later innings and topped Bellingham 25-10 in a Northwest Conference game on Saturday, April 19, at Bellingham.

In spite of a fondness for bunny ears, Payton Price, 2, is wary of meeting Carrot Cake the Bunny before she and other kids grab candy filled eggs at The Great Community Easter Egg Hunt at Pioneer Park on Saturday, April 19, 2014 in Ferndale.

Folksinger and composer Daisy O'Conner, a Ferndale native who attended Western Washington University and did social work in Whatcom and Skagit counties for five years, returns from her current home in Austin, Texas, to perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 19, 2014 at Green Frog, 1015 N. State St. in Bellingham.

The City Council will hold a public hearing Monday, April 21, about its six-month moratorium on recreational marijuana businesses in Ferndale.

Voyager plays a tribute to hard rock and metal Saturday night, April 19, at Skagit Valley Casino Resort's Winners Lounge, 5984 N. Darrk Lane, Bow.

With a new name and a relatively new owner, a Ferndale manufacturer is making new inroads in the pet products market.

Nathan Jorgensen, co-owner of Subdued Excitement, uses an angle grinder on March 26, 2014, to cut a rim joint for the steel beams for the new ceiling at Subdued Excitement in Ferndale.

Kent Holsather, left, and Wes Gannaway are authors of a book about the history of baseball in Whatcom County.

Ruth Appel, manager of The Cheese Shop at Appel Farms, stacks fresh cheese curds on top of a display case Thursday, April 10, 2014 in Ferndale.

Plans are underway to build a playground on a 14-year-old unused lot in Pioneer Park early next year.

Plans are underway to build a playground on a 14-year-old unused lot in Pioneer Park early next year.

Lummi fiddler, poet and storyteller Swil Kanim will explain how the elements of honor can work in everyday life as part of the HonorCoin Project at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12, 2014 at Lummi Gateway Center, 4920 Rural Ave., in Ferndale.

A major route to the city's residential north side will be closed for construction for about half a year.

Police fired a Taser at a 24-year-old man accused of running from an arrest Wednesday morning, April 9, in a field west of downtown Ferndale.

A Whatcom County man was found hiding up a tree after a car chase that began on Interstate 5 and ended when he crashed a truck in a swamp at the end of a gravel driveway early Wednesday morning, April 9, according to the Washington State Patrol.

Winchester was recently named the Novalash's Lash Artist of the Year. Novalash is a global distributor of eyelash extension products.

Alan Parsons Live Project plays at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at the Silver Reef Event Center at Silver Reef Hotel Casino Spa, 4876 Haxton Way, Ferndale.