Latest Bellingham, Washington Stories
By Isabelle Dills, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 22--Each week The Bellingham Herald takes a closer look at a business. This week: Tenaska Ferndale Cogeneration Station. What's new: The state Department of Labor and Industries recently gave a workplace safety award to the Tenaska Ferndale plant as part of the Voluntary Protection Program. The Ferndale plant has been designated as a STAR site, meaning the facility has reached the highest level of workplace safety. The award honors the...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Jeff Worden, APR, The Pipeline Group, +1-412-253-0816, jeff.worden@pipelinegroup.com ATLANTA, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pipeline Group, Celeritas Technologies and PIER Systems introduced today a communications platform designed specifically to help pipeline operators meet their commitments for public awareness, safety, emergency response and RP1162 compliance. On the first day of the Southern Gas Association's annual Operating Conference here, officials...
By The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 20--"The Extremities" Timothy Kelly Oberlin College Press 68 pages $15 "Meaning a Cloud" J.W. Marshall Oberlin College Press 79 pages $15.95 Is it too much to ask for a contemplative spell during the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer? I've been thumbing through two books of poetry that provide that kind of relief. In its latest batch of releases, Oberlin College Press has brought out volumes from two Northwest poets. "The Extremities"...
By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 19--The struggling population of Cherry Point herring sagged by about a third this year, erasing much of the modest gains since a low point in 2000. "We had a bit of a downturn here in 2008, which was kind of disappointing," said Kurt Stick, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist who conducts annual studies to determine how many herring spawn along Cherry Point and nearby shorelines. Stick estimated the 2008...
By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 18--"We had a bit of a downturn here in 2008, which was kind of disappointing," said Kurt Stick, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist who conducts annual studies to determine how many herring spawn along Cherry Point and nearby shorelines. Stick estimated the 2008 spawning population at 1,352 tons, down from 2,169 in 2007 and the lowest since 2002 when the estimate was 1,330 tons. Herring are considered an important...
By Sam Taylor, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 18--Whatcom County is very unlikely to get federal help in the upcoming fiscal year to clean up asbestos-laden Swift Creek. But the state Department of Ecology is paying $190,000 for limited channel excavation, stockpiling and bank armoring of the creek. County Council members will be asked Tuesday, July 22, to approve an agreement with the state for the work. The state's money will pay for nearly half of the project. Another $200,000 will...
By Peter Jensen, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 17--Charity Jacobsen, a nurse in training who just happened to be at the lake, saw the girl was purple, her lips were blue and she wasn't moving. Jacobsen's education kicked in, and she began performing CPR. "My first thought was, this child is dead," Jacobsen said. "My adrenaline just kind of took over. I just had a CPR class last winter. It was only a day class, but I sort of remembered what to do." Jacobsen said the girl started moaning...
By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 15--Whatcom County Public Utility District No. 1 has decided to take a serious look at enlarging its role in providing electric service here. The district's three commissioners recently voted unanimously to hire a consultant to study whether there would be any advantages to extending the district's electric power service territory. Since its creation by voters in 1937, the utility district has had only one electric power customer: the...
By Isabelle Dills, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 15--Each week The Bellingham Herald takes a closer look at a business. This week: Architectural Elements. What's new: Architectural Elements began three months ago by Joe Clark. Clark has 10 years of experience in metal fabrication and two years experience in custom-home building. He said he decided to start his own business because he had a desire to do creative work and design, and see a project through from start to finish. What...
By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jul. 15--BELLINGHAM -- Up to 20 city construction projects could be eligible to avoid some of Bellingham's own environmental rules, after a City Council decision. Without the exemptions, city staff says, some of those projects might be impossible. The City Council on Monday voted to approve a new law that could allow street, trail, water and sewer, stormwater and parks projects to avoid the critical areas ordinance, which protects wetlands,...
