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Lydia Ahn has been promoted to principal at VSH CPAs in Bellingham.
Ahn has worked at VSH since 2006. Her specialties include real estate, construction and professional services, cross-border business expansion, compliance for U.S. persons living abroad and foreign investments in U.S.…

The American Institute of CPAs awarded Paul Wright, a student at Western Washington University, with the Beta Alpha Psi’s Medal of Inspiration Award Aug. 3 at the honorary organization’s annual meeting in Baltimore, Md.

The AICPA-sponsored award, which includes a $…

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has announced that Paul Wright, a student at Western Washington University, was awarded Beta Alpha Psi's Medal of Inspiration Award at the Beta Alpha Psi Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. 
The award, sponsored by the AICPA, is…

A $1 million gift from a Western Washington University alumnus and his family's foundation will help build an athletic field that will be the new home for Western's NCAA Division II men's and women's soccer teams.

The total price tag for the project is $4.6 million,…

To say that this year's inductee into the supplier wing of the Convenience Store News Industry Hall of Fame was surprised by this honor from his customers and colleagues would be an understatement.

"When I read the letter informing me that I had been…

The City of Edmonds has a new finance director.

Shawn Hunstock was formerly the finance director for the City of Tukwila and was also serving as the interim city administrator.

When Major League Baseball's season began, so did Darren O'Donnell's.

O'Donnell was two years out of Western Washington University, where he majored in economics and accounting. He worked at a Bellingham food co-op, where he had been promoted to…

ON THE ONE hand, says Bellingham craftsman Stan Miller, the gorgeous mandolins he makes are essentially "a box with a stick at one end."

Of course, that's like saying the Sistine Chapel is an auditorium with a colored ceiling. Miller's mandolins…

The McClatchy Co. has named Mark Owings president and publisher of The Bellingham Herald.

Owings is a 12-year employee of the newspaper who has been finance executive since 2004. With Thursday's announcement he replaces former publisher Glen Nardi who left last year when he was named…

Jim Kaemingk Jr. has joined Keller Williams Western Realty in Bellingham as director of its commercial division. Kaemingk brings 10 years experience in local commercial real estate, including work with vacant land and new construction. He also has accounting degree from Western Washington…