Lummi Island News

People 21 and older are invited to a "Concert on the Lawn" Sunday, July 5, to raise money for the Lummi Island Boys & Girls Club.

Lummi Island homeschooler Simone Prince-Eichner proved on Thursday, June 18, that she knows history better than other U.S. middle school students.

The 63rd annual Lummi Stommish water festival gets into full gear Friday, June 12, at the Stommish Grounds, one mile south of the Lummi Island ferry terminal near Gooseberry Point.

Whatcom County Councilman Carl Weimer will have a challenger for his District 3 seat, while District 2 candidate Ken Mann now has an opponent.

The Beach Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization is having an auction Saturday, June 6, to raise money to offset proposed budget cuts.

We gave nine house concerts, two bookstore performances, and visited a couple dozen bookstores from Mendocino all the way to Lummi Island, Washington and back, with layovers in Arcata, Coos Bay, Astoria, Seattle, Bellingham, Port Townsend, Portland, Medford, Ashland, and Sacramento.

Angie Dixon, of Lummi Island Realty, LLC, has successfully completed the educational and testing requirements to become a licensed broker.

Two people were injured in an early morning crash Sunday, May 24, on Lummi Island, according to Washington State Patrol.

Rows of people sitting on blankets and lawn chairs lined Cornwall Avenue Saturday, May 23, to watch the 2009 Ski to Sea Grand Parade.

The board of commissioners for Whatcom County Fire District No. 11, located on the island, has approved spending about $157,000 to buy a new ambulance.

County leaders approved a plan for the island that reduces development potential and makes it harder to install new wells.

When May tides are considered their best, local Northwest tribes paddle to Penn Cove for a Saturday packed with canoe races, tribal dancing, storytelling and singing.

The Lummi Island ferry will have passenger-only service through much of September as the Whatcom Chief enters dry dock for annual maintenance.

Beach Elementary School will remain open and enroll all elementary grades under a proposed 2009-10 budget cut plan for the Ferndale School District.

Beach Elementary School families are worried their school will be closed for budgetary reasons, but they won't let it happen without a fight.

The Jane and Loren Davis house on Chuckanut Drive has been awarded two design honors for The Miller/Hull Partnership: A 2009 national American Institute of Architects Housing Award for One/Two Family Custom Housing and a Merit Award for Architectural Interiors from Residential Architect magazine.

Lynda Fell might not remember her prom date or the details of all her high school dances.

Liberty Bell, I object to internal, suspicionless Border Patrol checkpoints and roadblocks.

County singer Taryn Cross, who says she's "a bit shy of 18," was last featured in The Bellingham Herald in 2006, when she performed at the Northwest Washington Fair and KING5 News aired her story on "Evening Magazine." She recently completed shooting a video for her new song, "I Can Break My Own Heart," recorded by Bellingham's Eero Johnson of ...

I'll say again, who cares, we're only talking jobs. The less of jobs the better, more welfare for all.