Public Hearing to Add Gooseberry Pt. Pedestrian Facility Project to 6-Year TIP

Whatcom County Council will hear comments about proposed amendments to the 6-year Transportation Improvement Plan (2012-2017) at their meeting on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Among the proposed changes is the addition of a “Gooseberry Pt. Pedestrian Facility.” According to the supporting documents (linked below): This project is in fulfillment of the ferry lease obligation. This [...]

County Council Approves Adding Fender Pile at Fairhaven

This County Council action appears to have slipped by under the radar here on the Island. The County apparently is taking steps to make it safer for the Whatcom Chief to dock in Fairhaven. From a report by the Council office of County Council actions taken at their 1/24/2012 meeting: 6. Request authorization for the [...]

Lummi Business Council Passes Lease

From KOMO news (Seattle) yesterday and the Bellingham Herald today today, a press release from the Lummi Nation about the Lummi Indian Business Council approving the lease. The Herald article said that County Council would introduce the agreement on August 9, presumably to have a public hearing (and vote?) at their next meeting on September [...]

A Review of Traffic Accidents on Haxton

Bud Jewell researched the issue of traffic accidents on Haxton Way from January 2004 to January 2011.  In the attached report, he gives us detailed statistics that address the type of each accident during this period, including who was involved, who was charged, and where the accident occurred.  He has also included many excellent suggestions [...]

Kremen Addresses Lummi’s Safety Concerns

Pete Kremen, Whatcom County Executive, sent us the following note, as well as the letter he sent to Chairman Cultee, addressing the County’s response to Lummi Nation’s traffic safety concerns.  Folks, Please find attached a letter I sent to Chair Cultee today.  Please know that it is the County’s intention to continue normal, regular ferry [...]

Report on ‘Community Connections’ Dinner

Note: I am writing this description of last night’s meeting for our many (~1800) full or part-time fellow Lummi Island residents and property owners who couldn’t  attend last night’s dinner (this is NOT a ‘media’ report!), as well as any Lummis who are curious about what happened.  I took few notes and may have missed [...]

Lummi Dinner/Discussion Invitation to Islanders

Yesterday the Lummi Nation invited all islanders to a community-to-community dinner/discussion on March 29, via Brown Betty Service.—- —– email —- Below is a community dinner invitation from the Lummi Nation to all Lummi Island residents. Also see the attached flyer. Paul Davis, Editor; Paul Revere, Horse Rider; and Brown Betty, Horse The Tome of [...]

Whatcom County minutes re: Haxton Road Improvements (Dec 2009)

Barbara Ryan sent this email, with attached minutes from a December 16, 2009 meeting of the Whatcom Transportation Board.  The minutes shed new light on the County’s actions / priorities in December 2009 concerning road improvements for Haxton Road safety.  The minutes also reveal what some county officials thought, at least in December 2009, about [...]

Summary of County expenditures on roads in the Lummi reservation

Thanks to Jared Paben for pulling out the essentials from the excel document that Pete Kremen emailed recently and posting the main elements on the Bellingham Herald Traffic Blog, along with the Department of Public Works spreadsheet that the summary came from (we posted just the summary page yesterday). I just went through the details [...]

Herald story on Safety and Gooseberry Pt

Here’s the Bellingham Herald‘s latest story on Gooseberry Pt, reflecting Cultee’s, chair of the Lummi Indian Business Council’s plan (as stated in his memo linked to in yesterday’s Ferry Forum story) to ‘tell the Lummi story’ to the Herald editorial board. (Most of the comments are a bit better than usual, some long and with [...]