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Election workers remove ballots from a Ferndale ballot box in August 2024. (Eric Becker)

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Bellingham Mayor Kim Lund waits to speak about the North Haven tiny home village during a celebration in August 2025. The city charter contains the unusual requirement that the mayor must be the city's highest salaried employee. Voters in November will consider a charter amendment that says the mayor's salary will instead be set by an independent commission. (

An aerial view of the proposed future Whatcom Family YMCA site in Barkley Village. The site is located at the intersection of Sunset Drive, Woburn Street and Hannegan Road in Bellingham. The Talbot family has announced it will be donating the site to the YMCA. (Photo courtesy of Barkley Village, by M. Mataio Gillis)

A new Bellingham community center is in the works, after the...

Gov. Bob Ferguson is pushing the Legislature to make completing a state or federal financial aid form a requirement, he announced at a July 13 press conference at Highline College. (Photo courtesy of Governor's Office)

Gov. Bob Ferguson wants to make completing the federal student aid application, or the state equivalent, a graduation requirement, he announced at a press conf...

Travis Kilpatrick competes in the sheaf toss, a sport where athletes compete to see who can throw a sheaf of hay the highest during the Skagit Valley Highland Games July 11 at the Skagit County Fairgrounds in Mount Vernon. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)

Scottish cultur...