In the Media
Guard Megan Pinske hit a crucial 3-pointer with 1:18 to play to help preserve a narrow lead as Western Washington University won its 19th consecutive game, holding off Montana State Billings 63-57 in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Billings, Mont.
Standing tall at 6-foot-1, Issaquah High School’s Rachel Roeder is a formidable foe on the volleyball court.
The outside hitter has a recorded 469 kills, 252 digs, 67 service aces and 28 blocks this past season while posting a kill percentage of .449; enough to attract the attention of Gatorade in its search for Washington Volleyball Player of the Year.
Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh returns to Bellingham Sunday, Feb. 27, to perform with the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra.
Koh and the orchestra will perform a violin concerto by modern composer John Adams. The concert also includes Schumann's Third Symphony and Tchaikovsky's thundering "1812 Overture."
Koh has become a regular with the orchestra during the past decade, making her Bellingham debut in 2004 and returning in 2007.
With the domestic housing market still in a slump, area mills are working to land more export contracts with buyers in Australia, China and India.
As part of the strategy to send lumber to overseas buyers, the Vaagen Bros. Lumber mill in Colville will soon be taking over operations of a mill at Midway, B.C.
Vaagen Bros. will use the mill to help produce specialty metric lumber for the Australian market.
The former Pope and Talbot mill, now known as Boundary Sawmill Inc, was recently purchased by Fox Forest Products of Montana. Vaagen Bros. affiliate, Vaagen Fibre Canada, ULC, has signed a 10-year lease contract with the company, with option to renew.
Vaagen Bros. Vice President Russ Vaagen said that the company had been looking at the plant for some time, but they needed to further “investigate the timber supply.”
After more than a month of negotiations, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Friday a package of deficit cutting measures that attempt to patch a shortfall of more than half a billion dollars in the current fiscal year.
But the action on Friday still leaves the state hundreds of millions of dollars in the red.
The agreement trims several state programs, including the state's health care program for the poor and aid for the disabled, as well as transfer funds from other programs. In total, the plan slashes the estimated deficit by about $370 million, with about $242 million in cuts and $125 million in transfers.
WASHINGTON state's 2011 supplemental spending plan wields the budget ax heavily on our four-year universities.
It has proved difficult for lawmakers fixated on the budget to carve out attention for higher education. Reps. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, and Larry Seaquist, D-Gig Harbor, top a list of notable exceptions.
But the Legislature must get behind a road map charting a better course for universities struggling to pay for the level of access and academic quality state residents expect.
Hundreds of public employees and other protesters showed up at the Capitol on Monday to oppose proposed budget cuts and show solidarity with Wisconsin government workers.
Many were taking advantage of the Presidents Day holiday to send a message to lawmakers, who face a nearly $5 billion shortfall in the next two-year budget. A State Patrol trooper estimated more than 1,000 people were on the steps and hundreds more were inside the statehouse.
With Egypt's future unsettled after the ouster of President Mubarak, The Herald asked professor Leonard Helfgott to share his thoughts about the pivotal country.
Helfgott teaches Middle Eastern, Jewish and American cultural history at Western Washington University, where he has been a faculty member since 1970.
For Western Washington University students who have spent the recession in school, challenging times are ahead as they try to find their place in a job market that has been slow to recover.
Students who graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in 2008-09 had the lowest employment rate in almost 20 years, with fewer than 69 percent of students finding a job, according to a survey taken three months after graduation by WWU's Career Services Center.
Last year, people celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Outback farm at Fairhaven College.
This Saturday, Feb. 26, people are invited to a workshop to brainstorm the future of the college's back forty.
The Outback actually covers about five acres from the college south to Western Washington University's Buchanan Towers residence halls. About three of the acres are filled with gardens, greenhouses, ponds, a toolshed and other trappings of a small farm nestled in the narrow valley with southern exposure.