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Aint No Big Deal's downhill skier Rob Whitney, right, gets a timing chip from cross country skier Holly Brooks during the annual Ski to Sea Race at Mount Baker Ski Area Sunday morning, May 29, 2011.

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Fairhaven Festival has food, fun and its own beer garden on Ski to Sea Sunday

BELLINGHAM - Fairhaven Festival organizers are willing to cede the title of "Eighth Leg of the Race" to the beer garden near Ski to Sea's finish line at Marine Park. The festival's own beer garden, on McKenzie Avenue between 10th and 11th streets, stands on its own. 9 minutes ago

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Riordan resigns as WWU provost, academic affairs VP

BELLINGHAM - Western Washington University's provost and vice president of academic affairs has announced that she is resigning from the university in July.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Affiliation between PeaceHealth, UW Medicine raises questions

A "strategic affiliation" between PeaceHealth, which operates Bellingham's only hospital, and UW Medicine announced Monday, May 20, has raised some concerns about secular hospitals doing business with religious health-care systems.
LOCAL NEWS

Canadian coal export plans under fire in Surrey, B.C. (Politics Blog)

A new plan for export of U.S. coal through a Canadian port is arousing some opposition north of the border.
SKI TO SEA

Ski to Sea organizers keep an eye on Nooksack River, say rest of race course is good to go

If you want to know how the Nooksack River will be running for this year's Ski to Sea, wait until Saturday, May 25 - the day before the seven-leg relay race that covers about 93 miles from Mt. Baker Ski Area to Bellingham Bay.
LOCAL NEWS

Ferndale might reverse decision to put gas tax on ballot

FERNDALE - City voters might not be asked to approve a gas tax after all. A Ferndale City Council member who voted in favor of putting a penny-per-gallon tax on the November ballot might change his vote when the council revisits the decision at its next meeting, on Monday, June 3.
LOCAL NEWS

Work to begin soon on Wharf-Boulevard roundabout in Bellingham

BELLINGHAM - The City Council has approved Ram Construction Co.'s $1.14 million bid for construction of a roundabout at the snarl of asphalt where State, Forest and Wharf streets link up with the Boulevard.
LOCAL NEWS

Meridian High School's Old Main building comes down after 91 years

LAUREL - It was a bittersweet day Monday, May 20, as staff and current and former students of Meridian High School watched demolition start on the school's nearly 100-year-old Old Main building.
NATIONAL

Driver in Ill. van wreck had license suspension

A New Jersey man behind the wheel of a van that careened off of an Illinois freeway and overturned, killing five passengers returning from a California ministry gathering, had his driving privileges suspended last year for administrative reasons, motor vehicle records show.
NORTHWEST NEWS

Little known about suspect in Wash. ricin case

A 37-year-old janitor who has been charged with threatening to kill a federal judge in a case that involves letters containing the deadly poison ricin is a registered sex offender who lived in a rundown apartment building near downtown Spokane.
CRIME

Whatcom County Jail report for May 22

The Whatcom County Sheriff's Office lists the following people as being booked into the Whatcom County Jail. In many cases, charges have not been filed. Guilt is determined by the courts.