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Study Reveals Cause Of Higher Melanoma Rates In Whatcom County

Medical researchers studying the possible cause of higher melanoma rates in Whatcom County think they may have found an answer.

The State of Washington, and particularly Whatcom County, is consistently higher than the national average for melanoma.

2011-10-13
Never too old to learn – or too young to teach

On Wednesday at the Brookings Activity Center, senior Neal Digre is introducing senior Irene Bain to the first steps on the road to computer literacy.

He's 17 years old and will graduate from Brookings High School in May 2012; she's 77 and graduated from Brookings High School a…

2011-10-13
Slocums celebrate 60th anniversary

arold and Loretta Slocum celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Aug. 25, 2011, with family and friends.
The couple met in Snohomish, Wash., in 1949 and were married in Nooksack, Wash., in 1951. Harold graduated from Western Washington University in 1957, where he majored in math and…

2011-10-10
Newcomer earns best paper award at engineering conference 2011-10-03
County redistricting affects Bellingham, Lynden precincts

New district boundaries for the Whatcom County Council and Port of Bellingham Commission have been released.
They were developed by a bipartisan districting committee of five people. The district boundaries are the same for County Council and the port districts.
While there are no…

2011-10-03
WWU grad a finalist in international design competition

When recent Western Washington University graduate Thomas Kloucek designed a small multifunctional tool for scuba divers for a class assignment, he thought he had just designed something for school and that would be the end of it.
But now the invention is one of 10 projects representing…

2011-09-26
ASSE’s WISE Group Honors WA’s Nicole McOmie as One of 100 Women Making a Difference in Safety

The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Women in Safety Engineering (WISE) Common Interest Group has honored Nicole McOmie, M.S., of Vancouver, WA, for making a difference in the safety, health and environmental (SH&E) field as part of the WISE ‘100 Women, Making a Difference in…

2011-09-21
NSF funds $2.9M study of elementary science teacher prep at Western 2011-09-06
WWU's Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center Receives Grant from Murdock Charitable Trust 2011-08-23
Bellingham auto repair facility expands

Dan's Automotive, a Bellingham service and repair center, has moved to a larger facility in the same business park after achieving 74-percent growth in its second year of business.
Dan's Automotive now utilizes three bays for customer vehicles after moving to its new facility in…

2011-08-16
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