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Longtime immigrant activist continuing her work

Guandique said every job she has held has been about helping people move out of poverty. The only way to do that, she said, is through education.

“All I had was a high school diploma all those 24 years when I worked with farmworkers,” she said. “…

2017-04-07
Two Lynden athletes to be inducted into WWU Hall of Fame

Former Lynden Christian basketball star Grant Dykstra and Lynden golf standout Tim Feenstra will be among four athletes inducted into the Western Washington University Athletics Hall of Fame on May 20.

2017-04-05
Can’t make it to the property showing? This company says no problem

A new local company is making use of technology that may be helpful to those buying and selling a home.

Pine Tree 3D was started last…

2017-03-20
This Bellingham company's equipment just might save your life someday

“His stuff is everywhere,” said Bill Boyd, recently retired chief of Bellingham Fire Department. “I was in Hawaii on the beach with my wife and the lifeguard was driving around, there were Conterra kits in that.”

Boyd and Lipke were friends at Western Washington…

2017-03-20
Gone: Local film gets an encore

When I first heard about the movie Gone, which was produced, written and directed by a collective of Western Washington University students and filmed locally, its premise of “strangers brought together by a hit-and-run car crash” caused me to envision some kind of low-…

2017-03-08
Farm boy to head honcho, Sterk uses his past to lead Missouri

Jim Sterk never envisioned leaving Whatcom County.

The Missouri athletics director grew up in Nooksack, Washington, a town of about 1,500 people just south of the Canadian border. He lived on a farm, was a good student and once totaled his 1967 Plymouth Roadrunner by…

2017-02-27
WWU alumna Ijeoma Oluo to speak Feb. 23 on social change and politics 2017-02-15
Western alum Ty Minton-Small to present award-winning documentary 'Gleason' 2017-01-13
Inspiring young minorities to pursue science

Anne D’Aquino and her twin sister, Andrea, started to dream aloud about their ambitions in science as undergraduates at Western Washington University. Several years later, the family is on track to earn two PhDs before the end of the decade. Andrea is pursuing her…

2017-01-04
WWU RN-to-BSN Graduates Selected for National Conference 2017-01-03
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