In the Media
Apparently former Western Washington University long snapper Matt Overton isn't destined for a future with the Seahawks, as the team released him for a third time on Wednesday in order to add linebacker Anthony Heygood back to the 80-man roster.
A group of Western Washington University students will return from Detroit Thursday to celebrate their showing in the Progressive Automotive X-Prize Competition.
The students competed against more than 140 teams to build a car that can travel 100 miles per gallon. They made it to the second-to-last round, the furthest a college team has ever gotten in the competition.
A celebration will begin at noon Thursday, Aug. 5, for the Western Washington University team and the Viking 45 car that competed for the Progressive Automotive X Prize.
The international competition was to build a super fuel-efficient vehicle with consumer appeal. Viking 45 was eliminated July 26 in the second week of finals.
Kenneth Ahrens, a Washington State Patrol trooper based in Port Angeles for 20 years, retired Aug. 3.
Ahrens graduated from Richland High School, later attending Peninsula College for an associate's degree and Western Washington University for a bachelor's degree.
We’d mentioned in passing a few weeks back that the Bellingham Tea Party’s candidate forums at Whatcom Community College were excellent, and the Gristle would like to elaborate on that: They were excellent, both in the quality of the format and the professionalism of the moderator—Western Washington University pyschologist Robert Thorndike—which offered a brisk round-robin of questions and brief responses while keeping the angry polemics to a minimum.
When one is reminded of their first job, often the things that come to mind are summer cash, drive-through mishaps, register memorization, and some form of embarrassing uniform.
However, if you’re in your mid to late teens today, finding that first taste of adolescent employment isn’t so easy.
Just ask recent Colville High School honors graduate and current Alpine Auto-View Drive-In employee Ryan Schafer.
A controversy of classic proportions has begun playing out over the past couple of months.
At stake is the future of Grand Island, one of Oregon's most prized enclaves of agricultural enterprise. Those who have been following the story know it involves the proposed siting of another gravel quarry on the island - one projected to operate for the next three decades.
On Friday, a mother and daughter stood painting at a desk set up with acrylics, brushes, and cups of water. It could have been any painting workshop – except for the nervous atmosphere and the stack of camouflage jackets on the back desk.
Show girls at the Seattle World's Fair.
Interviews with civil rights leaders.
Campus life, including a Vietnam War protest, at Western Washington State College during the 1960s.
Those are some of the 16 KVOS TV news segments now viewable online at YouTube.
The selections were chosen from more than 70 reel-to-reel films that the Bellingham TV station donated to WWU's Center for Pacific Northwest Studies more than three decades ago. It's the first time that the center has made any of its audio-visual materials accessible online as part of the Western Libraries' digital collection.