"My community needs its own food," says Winona LaDuke, executive director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project. "We cannot afford the industrial food system."
Native American tribes across the country are rediscovering food plants well adapted to their regions and conducive to good health.
A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a car that runs on electricity when its battery has enough charge, runs as a gas-electric hybrid when its battery is low, and can be plugged into a wall outlet to charge when it is not in use. PHEVs have the climate-friendly benefits of an electric car with the long range of a gas-powered vehicle.
Some people might call Barbara and Richard Ramsey's house a mansion - but they wouldn't.
"I'd use 'farmhouse,'" Barbara Ramsey said. "Most people call it a mansion, but to me, it's just very comfortable."
... It has been owned by two families that made their mark on American history: the son of George Westinghouse, a pioneer of the electricity industry, and the son of Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator, both raised their families in this three-story home.
Read More
Read "Historic house of many names", a sidebar that accompanied this article.
With the way Kate Simmons talks about Bellingham's Heritage Flight Museums old airplanes, you would think the old war birds were veterans too -- in addition to the airmen who flew them.
"You can strap everything, plus the kitchen sink, to this aircraft," said Simmons, the museums director of programs and administration, of their Douglas A-1 Skyraider. "This aircraft can carry the same bomb load as a B-17, and it can do it with one engine."
In the newsroom of the Whatcom Independent, there sits a bell, like the ones you see at hotels next to signs reading, "tap for service." Every week after the editors put the paper to bed - or finish it and send a digital copy to the printers - they ring the bell to the applause of anyone left in the room.
The bell rang for the last time in June. The weekly newspaper covering Whatcom County published its last issue June 12. This ended a five-year attempt by a group of five owners - only one of which had any prior experience at a newspaper - and a staff of part-timers and volunteers to run a newspaper that was free of agenda or corporate ownership.
Greg Aanes's car doesn't look unique to the casual observer. The white, late '80's paint job has faded, and the car blends in among a line of other vehicles parked on the street. Aanes' bike hangs from a rack over the back window. The car even has a few rust marks on it.
"It looks remarkably like an '87 (Ford) Escort wagon," Aanes says.
University Police detained a level III sex offender in Fine Arts 102, a computer lab, July 10, on suspicion of using Western computers for downloading child pornography, said Administrative Sgt. Dave Garcia of University Police.
Garcia said the man also matches the description of a wanted suspect in a series of burglaries that occurred in the Environmental Science Building and Arntzen Hall since fall quarter 2005.
The autographs of the many improv comedians whom have performed at The Upfront Theatre in its two years of operation line the walls of its green room.
Some of the names are famous comedians, and others are Bellingham performers who call the Upfront their home base.
The Whatcom Transportation Authority plans to close its bus station in downtown Bellingham for renovations this summer and for the duration of the 2006-07 school year.
Rick Nicholson, WTA director of service development, said the station is being renovated to accommodate the doubling of the service's riders and buses since the original station was built in 1980.
Patrons of Bellingham's Cornwall Park still need to keep an eye out for wayward flying discs, at least for now.
Members of the Bellingham Disc Golf Club and city officials are unable to find a location for a new disc golf course to supplement the course at Cornwall Park.