Julia Tellman

1 week ago | cascadiadaily.com | Julia Tellman

What was your Reddit journey? Alexarc: I’ve been online since I was a kid. I enjoy online communities and seeing how people react and the interactions people have. I joined Reddit in 2012 or 2011. It was only a few years old at that point. [Around 2019, after r/Bellingham cycled through several moderators] suddenly I was a head moderator. It was quite the learning curve, and especially learning how to moderate almost 70,000 people. Dana: I joined in the middle of the pandemic.

1 week ago | cascadiadaily.com | Julia Tellman

At 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, the day the federal REAL ID law finally went into effect, the wait time for walk-in appointments at the Bellingham branch of the Washington State Department of Licensing was three hours as residents scrambled to get their enhanced identification. The REAL ID Act of 2005 set minimum security standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and state identification cards.

1 week ago | cascadiadaily.com | Julia Tellman

Donna Bury hadn’t seen her oldest son Benjamin for two years when police came to her door in La Conner in June 2024 to tell her he was dead. After several years of sobriety, he had fallen prey once again to his drug and alcohol addiction and severed ties with his family.    She assumed Ben had left Washington for California, but it turns out he was much closer to home — his body was found behind the IHOP in Mount Vernon.

1 week ago | cascadiadaily.com | Julia Tellman

The City of Bellingham is rolling out a new Community Streets Program to learn where residents see high traffic speeds, bad driver behavior, poor intersection visibility and other safety issues that can be addressed either with simple, creative fixes or through more significant capital projects. The predecessor of the Community Streets Program, called the Neighborhood Traffic Safety Program, was first implemented almost 20 years ago.

2 weeks ago | cascadiadaily.com | Julia Tellman

Faced with the likelihood that the population will grow by between 40,000–80,000 residents in the coming years, Whatcom County has released its draft environmental impact statement for the county’s once-in-a-decade comprehensive plan update. The community can review and comment on the document through the next month. The county, along with its seven cities, is reviewing the community’s vision for the next 20 years in order to update its comprehensive plan.