With environmental cleanup set to start next month on one project, the state has announced the next cleanup project, a former log-handling area near Pier 2 on the Guemes Channel.

Artist Bill Mitchell has completed his first new mural in two years, pictured here with museum advisory board President Lewis Jones.

The next cleanup project for the Port is the former Shell Oil tank farm, which was originally on tidal flats, then covered with fill in the 1925-’29 period between what is now 13th and 14th streets just east of McDonald's on Commercial Ave.

Mayor Gere is appointing Don Measamer as Director of Planning, Community & Economic for the city, in essence, making permanent his interim appointment made last March with the departure of Ryan Larsen.

First Friday Gallery Walk, this Friday, will feature new watercolors and etchings of the northwest by Elizabeth Ockwell, including "Bellingham Channel," shown here, as well as photography by Peter Kuhnlein and a new show by the Skagit Valley Camera Club.

When Police responded to a report of a man walking down the center of Commercial Ave. and jumping in front of cars, the man told Police he wanted to be arrested to get a free meal.