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Western Washington University is dealing with a wet mess. A sprinkler pipe burst in frigid temperatures causing damage to offices in the school's Old Main building.
Facilities management director Tim Wynn said the pipe burst Tuesday night in the ceiling above the fifth floor, causing water damage to offices on the four floors below.
"The water was in the walls but started migrating to the interior of the building," he said. "We even saw water coming out of these lights. It was surreal for a while."
Western Washington University graduate Jackie Rolfson weaved around a classroom in Lucille Umbarger Elementary School on Thursday afternoon talking about critical questions each student can ask about their homework.
James Williamson of Ferndale has found a way to make a full-time living as a commercial artist for more than three decades.
His latest accomplishment is earning a spot in the prestigious Foss Maritime tugboat calendar for the 11th consecutive year. For the 2011 edition, he was among 12 artists chosen from 136 entrants.
Williamson, 61, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a 1978 graduate of Western Washington University. He and his wife, Norma, operate Williamson Illustration.
The gray November sky outside the windows provided the only light in John McIntyre's classroom in the Conservatory of Music at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College.
The dimness allowed his music history students to see a PowerPoint display on legendary German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The ambiance clashed with the colorful stories and quips delivered by McIntyre, a tall guy with wavy hair and a dark suit. When a snippet of Beethoven's 9th Symphony (the 2nd Movement) hummed through the stereo system in the room, McIntyre said, "People my age will remember this as the theme to the 'Huntley-Brinkley Report.'"
Then he grinned, knowingly. That NBC nightly newscast ended in 1970, long before these students were born.
Coach Carmen Dolfo shouldn't have to worry about her Western Washington University women's basketball team becoming overconfident, despite its 4-0 start.
Even though the nationally 24th ranked Vikings won the WWU Lynda Goodrich Classic with a clinic in defensive tenacity in both games, their 59-36 victory over the Montana State Northern Skylights on Saturday, Nov. 27, was the third consecutive game in which they have struggled offensively.
Generally speaking, the closer to salt water the voter lived, the more likely he or she was to support Bellingham's sales tax increase for transportation, an analysis of election data shows.
But that's not the case with Edgemoor and part of Birchwood neighborhood, where voters rejected the measure.
Speaking of books, Western Washington University's annual Children's Literature and Young Adult Book Sale is from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, on the sixth floor of the Wilson Library.
An attempted armed robbery in a grocery store parking lot Friday night, Nov. 26, could be connected to earlier gunpoint incidents in the Sehome area, according to Bellingham police.
Friday's incident took place just after 7:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Sehome Haggen.
A woman who had been shopping had put her groceries and purse in her car when an Asian man approached and asked for directions to a local mall. He then displayed a handgun and demanded all her money. The woman screamed and the suspect ran away around the back of the store, according to Sgt. David Richards.
Their sons Reuben, 22, and Henry, 19, are students at Western Washington University.
Marcus Walker is pretty sure Reuben will turn out OK. He’ll graduate with a major in physics and vocal performance, a natural combo.
Henry might be more of a problem. “He’s been studying theater some,” Marcus Walker said. “It’s a little scary.”
Amanda Dunbar has seldom lacked for confidence in three seasons as Western Washington University's scoring leader.
So it wasn't surprising one of the nation's best 3-point shooters nailed one of the highlights of Western's 68-39 victory over Cal State East Bay in the opening round of the 14th annual WWU Lynda Goodrich Classic on Friday, Nov. 26.