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History

Schooner Zodiac celebrates 100 years of exploration and education

Tall ship preserves history, cultivates community on Bellingham Bay

May 15, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Mount Baker School District to sell historic Hopewell Grange building

Sale could bring district needed cash; some hope buyer will restore 112-year-old building

March 8, 2024 10:00 p.m.

Bellingham’s Terminal Building, destroyed in Fairhaven fire, had 135-year history

A treasured meeting place for decades, it housed saloons, cafes and grocery stores

Dec. 22, 2023 5:00 a.m.

Working Waterfront

Bellingham’s shoreline history: A boom, bust of resource extraction

Until 1850, the impacts of European and American settlers was limited

Dec. 10, 2023 5:00 a.m.

Working Waterfront

The reshaping of Bellingham Bay — from past to present

Does the waterfront, as once envisioned, still play a central role? And at what cost?

Dec. 8, 2023 5:10 a.m.

Volunteers keep telling Sumas’s history, despite loss of collection

Sumas Museum persists, 2 years after destructive flood

Nov. 19, 2023 5:00 a.m.

Bellingham historian and visionary gets street named after him

'The community is different and better' because of Brian Griffin

Oct. 16, 2023 5:11 p.m.

Fountain Plaza’s renovations highlight history of survey landmark

Community hopes remodeled space will attract people, events

July 30, 2023 5:00 a.m.

Did Eliza Island have a black cat ranch?

James Wardner spun a faux fur tale

June 29, 2023 5:00 a.m.

Haunted history brought to life in Old City Hall tour

Spooky stories of historic murders told during Sunday tour

Oct. 30, 2022 5:38 p.m.