Local events for a frighteningly fun Halloween
As temperatures drop and days get shorter, rustling leaves become potential ghosts and pumpkins become jack-o-lanterns. It’s increasingly clear: Halloween is approaching.
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As temperatures drop and days get shorter, rustling leaves become potential ghosts and pumpkins become jack-o-lanterns. It’s increasingly clear: Halloween is approaching.
Bellingham local Dana Carr began her Taylor Dock sunset silent discos in January 2023 as a way to bring together the community after the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Costumes, breweries and relay races are great ways to enjoy the season and contribute to the community. On Sunday, Oct. 15, Whatcom Events hosted its fourth annual Trails to Taps race, where participants dress up and enjoy a fun run through Bellingham’s trails and breweries.
The Northwest Mushroomers Association is hosting its 31st annual Wild Mushroom Show in the Viking Union at Western Washington University this Sunday, Oct. 22, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is the association’s first show after a four-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
View a snapshot into the world of photography with other local enthusiasts on Saturday, Oct. 21.
The seventh annual Boulderham climbing competition is returning to Vital Climbing Gym after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
When I became the opinions editor for The Front this quarter, I was lucky enough to have a good idea of what I hoped to write about. My idea isn’t exactly “original,” per se, but thankfully, I learned from the best.
For many years, Wednesdays have been an informal holiday on Western Washington University's campus, permitting students to let off some steam by partying in the middle of the week. For businesses in downtown Bellingham, this means a shift in demographics to a younger crowd during the academic year. For students, it provides an opportunity to connect and meet new friends.
Western Washington University students have the opportunity to attend all 2023-24 home games free of charge. This development came from the partnership of Whatcom Educational Credit Union and The Foundation of WWU & Alumni. Together the organizations donated $25,000 to the university.
If you live in Bellingham, you’re no stranger to rain. For many, it means grabbing an umbrella on their way outside, but for Whatcom residents like John Heptonstall, it provides water to their homes.
Bellingham Bells head coach Jim Clem will step down for the 2024 season. He coached the Bells for 12 seasons, primarily as a pitching coach but recently as head coach in 2023.
In the city of subdued excitement, one man’s passion project, Subdued Sessions, is capturing strums on guitars all across Bellingham.
It is the start of a new quarter. You have a course load full of GURs that you don’t even remember signing up for. You’re taking Introduction to Poetry, which sounds interesting enough until the cycle of writing two or more poems each week almost makes the task nauseating by the end of the quarter.
Western Washington University hosted its first and only home event of the season with the Women’s Golf Invitational taking place Oct. 9-10. Western finished in second place with Dani Bailey leading the way for the team.
An annular solar eclipse will be visible in Bellingham this Saturday, Oct. 14 from 8 to 11 a.m. In an annular eclipse, the moon appears slightly smaller than the sun, leaving a thin ring of sunlight visible around the moon’s shadow. The Whatcom Association of Celestial Observers is hosting a free event at Zuanich Point Park for people to come view this rare solar occurrence.
The Western Washington University women’s soccer team narrowly defeated Northwest Nazarene University 2-1 in a close game on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023 at Harrington Field.
As an incoming Western Washington University student, Jen Black was excited to take an integral step in the journey of becoming a Viking. In the fall of 2021, Black sat down at a computer and joined a Zoom meeting: Western’s newly-implemented online freshman orientation.
Boasting huge windows overlooking north campus from the second floor of the Performing Arts Center at Western Washington University is the Music Library.
On Railroad Avenue, wedged between Avenue Bread and Mallard’s Ice Cream, sits the Bagelry – Bellingham’s classic bagel shop, with its distinctive green canopy and white cursive font.
The renovation of Western Washington University’s heating system was one of the four major capital projects in the university’s 2023-25 budget. In April, the state approved a $10 million fund to complete phase one of this project.