Lone senior diver from Bellingham High School, Sunni Sternhagen, prepares to pass the torch to her younger fellow divers and teammates Chloe Roth and Emma Kenoyer. Sunni has been a part of the dive team all four years of high school. Her coach, Jeff Anderson believes that Sunni has climbed the ranks since her start and is…
This school year, Alderwood Elementary is hosting a new program made possible by generous funding from the Whatcom Community Foundation. The Bellingham Food Bank will use the Alderwood Elementary gym as a pick-up site one day a week. The program began on Oct. 15. Use of the food bank is open to any family needing assistance. Alderwood…
Great progress is being made on the new Happy Valley Elementary School that is being built on the eastern section of the school’s property. Students, staff and principal Karen Tolliver recently signed a large beam that will be built into the new school. Tiger Construction, the Everson-based contractor that was awarded the Happy Valley bid, worked with Principal Tolliver…
Bellingham Public Schools has three semifinalists and 26 commended students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Competition. To qualify for the competition, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during the 2014-15 school year. Sehome High School students Nicholas Bourlier, Katherine Cunningham and Max May are semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship…
Izaya Taylor, a senior at Bellingham High School, auditioned for the All-National Honor Ensemble this year and was accepted in the “Mixed Choir” division. He will travel to Nashville, Tenn. at the end of October. Izaya auditioned for and was accepted into the Washington All-State Choir his sophomore year. Last year, Taylor auditioned for…
Eight middle school students from Bellingham Public Schools received scholarships from the Bellingham Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) to attend the Tech Trek summer camp at Pacific Lutheran University in July 2015. Students attending were Fairhaven Middle School’s Linnea DeVange and Elena Wolgamot; Kulshan Middle School’s Susannah Bloom; Shuksan Middle School’s Makenna Fowler and Amanda Smith; and Whatcom Middle…
Ten Bellingham elementary schools took their fourth graders on the Salish Sea Experience. The trip took place between May 26 and June 17 at the end of the 2014-15 school year. In total, 27 individual classes, 546 students and 251 chaperones had the opportunity to participate. During the Salish Sea Experience students traveled to Lime…
For the past six years, Sterling Meadows along with community partners has hosted a community back-to-school event the day before school starts. The event was started because staff saw the importance of connecting school and home, according to Lindsey Karas, resident services coordinator at Sterling Meadows. Sterling Meadows is an apartment community owned by Mercy Housing…
The United Way of Whatcom County awarded the Western Washington University Foundation a grant of $41,000 to help fund “Closing the Opportunity Gap Through Free Extended-Day Programming.” This is a collaborative effort between Western’s Woodring College of Education and Bellingham Public Schools. The grant will make it possible to offer new enrichment opportunities at Cordata…
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