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The 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 ...
‘It's our identity, our culture, our everything’ - Salish Current
1 day ago · Everything points back to salmon. It’s our identity, our culture, our everything.”. 2024 is the 50th anniversary of U.S. District Court Judge George H. Boldt’s ruling upholding the fishing rights of tribal nations that signed treaties in 1854–55 by which the U.S. obtained land for its expansion into the Pacific Northwest.
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Back to the Future: Film is Truth returns - Salish Current
3 days ago · It was called Film is Truth: 24 Times a Second, after a quote attributed to French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. The full quote from Godard is actually longer, but Freske said it wouldn’t fit on the store’s awning. “I just thought it was a cool phrase that didn’t sound like the name of a store,” he said.
Local schools embrace cellphone restriction - Salish Current
3 days ago · A recent Pew Research poll found that 68% of American adults support prohibiting middle and high school students from using cellphones during class. In contrast, only a third supported a full-day ban. Support is even higher among educators. The National Education Association, the country’s largest educator union, reports that 90% of educators ...
Changes at the border: questions remain in Sumas - Salish Current
6 days ago · Ed.: A plan for the Sumas border crossing site including expansion from 4 acres to around three times that area has been through a comment cycle with General Services Administration staff. But as the project proceeds, some questions remain as to how it will affect the town of about 1,500 that has had little actual say in the plans for changes ...
Signs of a hidden threat: preparing for the really big one
Sep 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.
Rising seas force adaptation to climate change - Salish Current
Jan 12, 2024 · SeaLevelRise.org and Washington Sea Grant predict the sea level will rise in the San Juan Island six more inches by 2050 and two feet by 2100. Photographs of a historic structure at San Juan Island National Park’s English Camp — historically a Coast Salish village known as Pe’pi’ow’elh — seem to confirm rising sea levels there.
After the flood: still rebuilding amid uncertainty, anxiety—and ...
Nov 17, 2022 · Editor’s note: Salish Current continues its coverage of Nooksack flooding by revisiting the people and the places written about in earlier stories: “Flood survivors face next flood season while awaiting long-term fixes,” Sept. 15, 2022 “Flood recovery continues in Sumas, seven months on,” June 24, 2022 “Whatcom farmers face manure management challenges after flooding,” Dec. 22, 2021