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WEBThe Salish Current is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, online local news organization serving Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties. Based in Bellingham, we serve 400,000 residents and tens of thousands of annual visitors to the three-county area. Our region is the ancestral home of Native treaty tribes including the Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Sauk ...
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WEBSee Salish Current archived newsletters here. More to read from our nonprofit news partners. Crosscut / Cascade PBS: Independent, reader-supported, nonprofit news for the Pacific Northwest ICT News: Independent, nonprofit, multimedia news covering Indigenous peoples InvestigateWest: Dedicated to change-making investigative journalism for the Pacific Northwest
2021: A look back at some stories from the first full year of Salish ...
WEBDec 31, 2021 · 2021 was a year like no other, with themes such as public health vis-à-vis COVID-19 and opioid addiction; social justice in the courts, the arts, housing and policing; and climate change and natural resources including water rights management. Salish Current offers a look back via articles published during the …
Events - Salish Current
WEBMar 17, 2022 · Current Affairs 2024 Speaker Series. Truth, Trust and the News 2023: “Calling Bullshit “. Sponsored by Salish Current, Western Washington University’s Ralph Munro. Institute for Civic Education and Whatcom Community College, in partnership. with Village Books; April 13, 2023. Watch the video [talk begins at 25.30]. Read the book review.
Anticipated Salish Sea vessel traffic increases spark calls for more ...
WEBJan 28, 2022 · Ready to assist large vessels transiting the Strait of Juan de Fuca and outer coast, the tug Barbara Foss sits dockside at Neah Bay. As vessel traffic is expected to increase in the region, some are calling for additional safeguards against associated risks — such as devastating oil spills.
Signs of a hidden threat: preparing for the really big one
WEBSep 6, 2023 · The signs and attention are meant to prepare people, especially visitors, for the certainty of a tsunami, if not the precise timing and magnitude of it. But at times, fatalism settles in. Rusk said, “If the tsunami comes, then maybe it was sort of meant to be.”. Still, making a plan is smart. Ray has an informal one.
Old is new again with early music festival - Salish Current
WEBMay 13, 2022 · Early music—from the 15th through 19th century—becomes new again in the hands of Jeffrey Cohan and other players in the 10-year-old Salish Sea Early Music Festival each spring. Using instruments replicating those of the Baroque and Renaissance eras, musicians from throughout the globe join the …
Locals in small operation take on 'tall order' in marine ecosystem
WEBSep 22, 2023 · The resulting Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative launched in 1998 through of an act of Congress. Unlike a sanctuary, it included no regulatory powers. For a quarter-century, the initiative has worked to improve two problems, one ecological and one political. The first addresses the deteriorating marine ecosystem in the Salish Sea ...
Have enough water? San Juan prepares to find out, with USGS study
WEBJul 21, 2021 · That survey was completed in 2002, when the county’s year-round population stood at 14,077, and was based on field work done in 1997 and 1998. “The total cost of the [new] study for San Juan County is $150,000, with USGS providing a share of $58,000,” said environmental health specialist Ethan Schmidt. The county has had some extra time ...