Lynden News

This Washington Department of Transportation traffic camera shows snow falling on Front Street in Sumas on Monday morning, Dec. 9, 2013.

Shoppers look for the best deals at the beginning of holiday shopping season, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, at Best Buy in Bellingham.

It's been three months since we kicked off this year's United Way campaign and we have seen tremendous generosity of time, energy and spirit.

The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office lists the following people as being booked into the Whatcom County Jail.

Some big holiday celebrations in Whatcom County begin the first weekend in December : Lynden's Lighted Christmas Parade, Ferndale's Olde Fashioned Christmas at Pioneer Park, Bellingham's tree lighting at Depot Market Square, and a gingerbread contest at the Holiday Port Festival at Bellingham Cruise Terminal.

The third annual Small Fruit Conference & Lynden Ag Show will be held Dec. 5-6 at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds.

Three more applications for marijuana retailers in Whatcom County were filed in the last week, including one in Point Roberts and another along Guide Meridian north of Bellingham.

Burien's nationwide search for a new city manager "goes live" with the publication and online posting of a recruiting brochure on Tuesday, Dec. 3. Applications for city manager will be received through Jan. 3 by SGR, the executive search firm retained by the city council earlier this fall, interim City Manager Craig Knutson told The B-Town Blog.

Snow at levels 500 feet and above, temperatures down in the teens and high wind warnings are in the forecast for the San Juans.

Whatcom County and Canadian shoppers swarmed the Cordata area in the evening hours of Thanksgiving Day, particularly around the big box stores and Bellis Fair mall in a sales event that featured staggered openings.

Lynden Performing Arts Guild presents its holiday show, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," Friday, Nov. 29, through Dec. 15, 2013 at Claire vg Thomas Theatre, Dutch Village Mall, 655 Front St., in Lynden.

The state Liquor Control Board has so far received 23 applications from businesses that want to grow marijuana in Whatcom County.

The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office lists the following people as being booked into the Whatcom County Jail.

Extra troopers, police officers and deputies will be on patrol looking for impaired drivers in Whatcom and San Juan counties as part of a holiday season Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign.

That was the message that more than 200 members of Bellingham City Club heard Wednesday, Nov. 20, from glacier scientist Michele Koppes and Taylor Shellfish Farms public policy manager Bill Dewey.

What does the legalization of marijuana in Washington state mean for B.C.? And how can we learn from its mistakes? Living as I do down the road from Point Roberts, Wash., I've wondered if or ever it will see a retail marijuana outlet there, now that the state has legalized its sale.

The weight limit on a damaged bridge on West Badger Road has been reduced from 25 tons to 15 tons "out of an abundance of caution," said Joe Rutan, assistant Whatcom County director of public works.

This brought out some Monday morning quarterbacking from county Republican Chairman Charlie Crabtree, with whom I did an election post mortem over coffee and tea on -- that's right -- Monday morning, Nov. 11. That same day he put out his own election analysis for those on his email list.

Candidates backed by the Democrats won all four seats in a crucial Whatcom County Council election watched by the nation.

Tom Griffiths is trying to find the "lost tugboat of Lake Samish." That sounds like the title of a children's book, but it was a real-life tug, the "Trojan," that used to tootle on the lake starting back in the 1980s.