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Larry Farr has announced his candidacy for the Ward 3 City Council seat that Barry Buchanan is expected to vacate as he launches his mayoral campaign.
As things stand now, Farr would face off against Cathy Lehman, director of the Whatcom County chapter of Futurewise. Lehman announced her candidacy for the Ward 3 seat earlier in the week.
Farr also sought the seat in 2007 but lost to Buchanan in the general election, with Buchanan garnering 58 percent of the vote.
It’s no wonder Vikings women’s basketball coach Carmen Dolfo wastes little time putting Kristin Schramm in games. A player this hot could burn up the bench. Schramm scored 23 points, including 15 in about five minutes during a crucial first-half run, in her usual sixth man role to help Western Washington University defeat Montana State Billings 76-49 on Wednesday, March 2, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament semifinal at Sam Carver Gym. The Vikings, who were ranked No. 11 in the latest national poll, will now host Alaska-Anchorage, a 68-66 winner over Seattle Pacific, in the championship game on Saturday, March 5. “I come off the bench,” said Schramm, who shot 9 for 13 and 4 for 5 from 3-point land. “I guess my role is to try and change the game and try and get everyone going. And that’s what I really look to do with my scrappiness. ... My offense comes when I work hard, I guess.”
Western Washington University said it’s received a $590,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to recruit and graduate more female students in the school’s math and computer science programs.
Read more: Western Washington U. gets $590K grant to recruit female math students | Puget Sound Business Journal
For all things optional, money is disappearing. For the things we like government to do, but don’t absolutely insist upon, support is fading and, for some, soon to vanish. The unavoidables are chewing it away. On the state level, that means that constitutionally mandated spending on K-12 education and must-funds like health care, prisons, public safety, employee benefits, interest and debt payments, are eating up everything else. On the federal level, it’s the entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, along with defense and debt doing most of the chewing.
If it isn’t on the must-fund list, no matter how valuable or beneficial, funding will be in jeopardy. It can’t be helped. Look at higher education in Washington, our state universities and community colleges. They once were our pride, their contribution to society unquestioned, their necessity in a modern world obvious. Their research and contributions to science, medicine and agriculture sent great waves of energy through the economy. The idea that any student with talent and modest means could walk up and attend one of the finest universities in the world, with most of the cost covered by taxpayers, we thought was one of the ultimate aims of a democratic society. Opportunity for all was a noble goal.
Western Washington University's Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" is a co-production of WWU's Opera Studio and Theatre Arts Department, and is staged Friday through Sunday, March 4-6, and March 11-13 at Western's Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theatre.
How much do you miss right in front of you when you're using your cell phone? It turns out you might even miss a spectacle. In a groundbreaking study out of Western Washington University, researchers wanted to see how distracting a cell phone can be with the help of a clown on a unicycle.
Kevin Ashe predicts that the primary topic of conversation in his grocery store today will be the high school girls basketball team.
Out in front of the IGA on Highway 530, Ashe's reader board says, "Good Luck at State DHS Girls BB."
Former Kitsap prep players and Western Washington University standouts Lukas Henne and Derrick Webb will re-join the Bellingham Slam for the 2011 International Basketball League season.
The Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI) at Western Washington University has received $49,000 in funding to conduct field research on wait times and lane reconfiguration at the border.
Funding for higher education was on the mind of hundreds of students, faculty and community members today with both a community forum and an on-campus rally highlighting the issue.
In the face of continuing severe budget cuts to higher education facilities, such as Western Washington University, Bellingham Technical College and Whatcom Community College, as well as a decrease in grants and available funding for students, concerned citizens expressed their concerns.
“The time to be silent is over,” said WWU student trustee Ramiro Espinoza at the mid-morning rally.