The Bellingham Herald

• Local charity event raises cash, supplies for two Bellingham agencies 
  The Charity Supply Drive, sponsored by The Easy Entrée, resulted in over $2,400 in donated office and art supplies as well as $300 in cash. Blue Skies for Children and Marianne's House were the agencies receiving the donations from the drive, which was held in May. The Easy Entrée is still accepting donations. Evelyn Turner, owner of The Easy Entrée, said OfficeMax and Wal-Mart allowed Western Washington University students to set up tables outside their businesses to solicit donations, which played a key role in the success of the drive.
  

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• WWU's Jordan Welling earns ESPN honor
  Western Washington University distance runner Jordan Welling has been named a first-team College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN The Magazine College Division District 8 Academic All-Star in men's track and field and cross country. Welling, a sophomore from Burlington, is a Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management major maintaining a 3.55 grade point average (4.0 scale).

The Skagit Valley Herald

• On the hunt for oysters
  As empty clamshells crunched and tidal mud squished under their rubber boots, Christine Woodward and Pamela Maxwell scrutinized their finds, looking for signs that the native Olympia oyster is reproducing in Fidalgo Bay.
  But the species is in trouble. The number of oysters in Washington has declined from historic levels by as much as 90 percent, said Paul Dinnel, a marine scientist who specializes in marine invertebrates and toxicology at Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center.

The Seattle Times

• 41 percent in state didn't finish college in six years
  Only 59 percent of Washington university students manage to graduate from the college they start at within six years, a new report has found — but that's still better than in most other states (WWU finished second among the state's public institutions behind only UW).

Centralia Chronicle

• Community Critic: 'Sin Nombre'
  This review for “Sin Nombre” should be written in Spanish, but as I am still figuring out English, a second language will have to wait. Fortunately for people like me, the movie has subtitles. And if you are one of those moviegoers who refuse to see movies with subtitles, quit being a wimp, as you are missing some good films.
  -  Terry Nelson, Centralia, is a former theater manager who has a degree in English Literature from Western Washington University, where he also studied film.

Seattle Examiner.com

• Performance-royalty foes notch a victory
  Opponents of performance-royalty legislation now before Congress announced a victory, saying they’ve amassed enough support for an opposing House resolution that a vote on the original bill now seems unlikely.
  Earlier this week, a group of college and high school radio stations, organized under the banner Free Radio Alliance, sent a letter to Congress opposing the Performance Rights Act. The organization represents more than 80 student stations in 29 states, including Washington. Signees included Dr. Douglas Blanks Hindman of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman, and Jamie Hoover, General Manager of KUGS-FM at Western Washington University in Bellingham.