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Alice Clark and the Downtown Bellingham Partnership Bring Life to Urban Bellingham
Interview by Mike McKenzie
Alice Clark has been synonymous with downtown Bellingham for 20 years. She sold pies at the Farmers Market, worked as a...
Small-Business Startups
Four budding Bellingham entrepreneurs with new ventures they started in the last two years attended Western Washington University at the same time, but didn’t...
Surviving to Maturity: No Small Feat for This Pair of Local Entrepreneurs
Kevin Buck in Bellingham and Tim Lukens in Custer represent the mature stages of owning a business, lasting 32-plus and nearly 20 years, respectively,...
Case of Lynden Organic Dairy Farm Spurs Concerns
Marty Maberry
Hans Wolfisberg grew up in Switzerland, but when he came to Whatcom County in 1996 he felt he had found a true home....
INDUSTRIES
Surviving to Maturity: No Small Feat for This Pair of Local Entrepreneurs
Kevin Buck in Bellingham and Tim Lukens in Custer represent the mature stages of owning a business, lasting 32-plus and nearly 20 years, respectively,...
Case of Lynden Organic Dairy Farm Spurs Concerns
Marty Maberry
Hans Wolfisberg grew up in Switzerland, but when he came to Whatcom County in 1996 he felt he had found a true home....
Q+A with Kevin DeVries
Exxel Pacific employees (left to right in the photo): Adam Bravo, Brian Proctor, Mike Shafer overseeing construction of the new Bellwether Apartments
Kevin DeVries has...
Wight Helps People in Need—Day & Night
By Business Pulse Staff
For Doug Wight, his philanthropy begins when people in need walk through his office door or share their thoughts in a...
Back To The Future of Local Salmon
By Sherri Huleatt
Experts mark 1985 as Whatcom County’s last great fishing season. Stakeholders from business, government, the Lummi Nation, higher education, and more have...
Birch Golf Classic Tees Up Community Caring
Clockwise from top left: Team Birch Equipment (with Jake Locker, far left); Some of Carole Garguile’s team of volunteers with Sarah Rothenbuhler, far left;...
Locals Fish Alaska but Bring the Bounty Home
By Pete Granger
Did you know that Whatcom County has a thriving commercial-fishing industry? Many people don’t. The Port of Bellingham estimates that commercial fishing...
Why the Cattlemen and the Farm Bureau are Suing the County
Ben Elenbaas
Second Vice President, Whatcom County Farm Bureau, and Vice President | Whatcom County Cattlemen’s Association
I submitted a research paper in May of 2014...
Regenis is Converting Manure into an Environmental Success Story
By Dave Brumbaugh
The consumer knows that dairy cows are the source of many delicious and nutritious foods, including milk, cheese, and ice cream. The...
