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August 2023

Beach eggs
A photographer provides an up-close and personal look at eggs found on beaches in or near Port Townsend.
Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut celebration is a call to action
A celebration of life for Southern Resident orca Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut was a call to action as well as a remembrance.
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Richard A. Walker
Lummi Nation prepares for Sk'aliCh'elh'tenaut's return home
The remains of captive Southern Resident orca whale Sk'aliCh'elh'tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) will be laid to rest in the waters where her orca pod still…
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Richard A. Walker
Detour? Delays? Drivers and businesses cope with summer road construction
Road construction projects throughout Whatcom County are creating challenges now — for benefits later.
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Matthew Benoit
Community Voices: Saving the Samish Crest
Commentary: The trails and views overlooking Bellingham toward the west can and should be saved for people.
Pandemic’s passed but local theaters are (cautiously) optimistic
Post-COVID theater attendance lags but new alignments and venues promise a brighter future.
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Matthew Benoit
Finding happily ever after in Skagit’s ag zone
A proposal that would constrain Skagit farms in operating as event venues has prompted discussion on the future of the area’s sense of place.
Community Voices / One Whatcom forms local network to counter violence and racial intolerance
In a gathering last Saturday, the human rights group One Whatcom supported the local Jewish community against rising antisemitism.
Humans urged to stay away from San Juan’s red foxes
“A fed fox is a dead fox,” warn signs on San Juan Island, urging humans to keep their distance from foxes in the wild — for the sake of the animals.
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Richard A. Walker
Community Voices / Only in a society separated from nature does ‘Rights of Nature’ make sense
There are many ways to interpret the idea of the “rights of nature” — so many layers that most of us can forget that we are nature.
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