Love Your Waterfront

10/23/2025

Election Day is November 4, so the Whatcom Working Waterfront Coalition sponsored a Port Commissioner candidate forum on October 18. Current commissioners Ken Bell and Micheal Shepherd and candidate Carly James answered audience questions. Listen now, courtesy of Community Radio KMRE:

Listen to Port Commissioner Candidate Forum, October 18, 2025 by KMRE on

10/09/2025

Tah-Mahs Ellie Kinley is our special guest on today's Love Your Waterfront. She shares with Dan and Kevin plans for the Protector Project: art installations that will mark sites of Lummi Nation reef net sites and villages throughout the San Juan Islands. Listen to KMRE today at 5:30, or go to sacredsea.org to find out more.

08/14/2025

Today on KMRE's Love Your Waterfront: Bellingham Port Commissioner Micheal Shepard discusses the November ballot proposal to increase commissioners by 3, and why that might be a good idea. Plus, Kevin and Dan share the great events coming soon!

06/11/2025

Is your dream boat now a nightmare? Or do know a tired boat on it's way to becoming a derelict? Dana Oster of the Northwest Straits Commission explains this summer's vessel turn in program. The deadline to apply is July 1, so check it out. Dan Tucker interviews Dana in this month's Love Your Waterfront.https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/aquatics/derelict-vessels/vessel-turn-program

03/11/2025

Fun times ahead! Dan Tucker and Kevin Coleman share upcoming waterfront fun: Ocean Trivia at Stone's Throw Brewing this Thursday, March 13? Wine and painting with Kevin on April 2nd? Tide to Table dinner and auction on April 26? Finally, international sail racing on Bellingham Bay, July 21-25!

Listen to Love Your Waterfront this Thursday at 5:30 on KMRE 88.3 or stream it at KMRE.org.
You can also catch this episode on SoundCloud and Spotify.
For details:
https://www.bellinghamseafeast.org/
https://www.whatcomworkingwaterfront.org/

03/11/2025

Fun events, explained: Dan and Kevin review what's on tap this summer in Whatcom County. How about sailing races on Bellingham Bay? Sip and paint with Kevin? Beats on the Bay with the Community Boating Center? Plus, did you know bull kelp is now the official "marine forest" of Washington state?

Join us this Thursday for Love Your Waterfront at 88.3 KMRE, or streaming on SoundCloud or Spotify:
https://soundcloud.com/kmrefm/sets/love-your-waterfront
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Xaz1p9govAGE06kLSmJi7?si=RCn2Cf5dSQ6vXh5-9aqWLQ

02/13/2025

What does a small port city in Georgia have in common with Bellingham? More than you'd guess...Dan Tucker shares interviews from the National Working Waterfront conference in San Diego at 5:30 today. Plus, Kevin Coleman gives his Valentine's Day dining recommendations, and Paul Meyer asks about the new gravel operation at Bellingham's port. Listen to Love Your Waterfront on KMRE 88.3, or find us on SoundCloud and Spotify. (PC: Andrew Silverman, POB)

01/09/2025

Today at 5:30 on KMRE FM: hosts Dan and Kevin talk with Kolby LaBree of Bellinghistory's Good Time Girls and Anna Booker of Whatcom Community College about the Georgia Pacific plant, once the anchor of the Bellingham Waterfront. It was such a great conversation, we'll air part 2 in our January 23rd episode. Enjoy!

Stream at https://kmre.org/

12/21/2024

In this Thursday's Love Your Waterfront episode, Beth Pielert, co-director of Children of the Setting Sun's "Salmon People; Preserving a Way of Life" shares the journey of this new local documentary.

See it now: https://settingsunproductions.org/salmon-people-film

Learn more about Scha'nexw Elhtal'nexw Salmon People: Preserving a Way of Life, a Children of the Setting Sun Production, including a comprehensive teaching guide for educators at settingsunproductions.org/salmon-people-film The Salmon People film is free to view, visit our website for more informat

10/24/2024

What's with all the cranes down on the Bellingham waterfront? KMRE reporter Paul Meyer gets the scoop (literally) from the Port's Mike Hogan and Brian Gouran. Listen today at 5;30 pm on KMRE 88.3

10/10/2024

On today's Love Your Waterfront at 5:30pm: SeaFeast was a blast! Last weekend's festival included a panel discussion featuring Whatcom County movers and shakers: Port Commissioners Micheal Shepherd and Ken Bell, Representatives Sharon Shewmake and Alicia Rule, Xochitl Castaneda of US Dept of Transportation Maritime Administration, and Bellingham Mayor Kim Lund, hosted by Dan Tucker. Topics included infrastructure, "Blue Schools," a vision for the waterfront...and dog parks! Listen in at KMRE 88.3

08/21/2024

On tomorrow's Love Your Waterfront: a bus to our waterfront...at last! And Dan Tucker talks with Dr. Alex Parker of Astraeus Ocean Systems about autonomous vessels that collect sea data, designed and built here in Bellingham.
https://www.astraeusocean.com/
Listen in at 5:30 on KMRE 88.3 or streaming at kmre.org

Ocean Intelligence, Redefined Forget the complexities of traditional ocean data collection. Astraeus Ocean Systems is building a platform for direct access to a smart network of Autonomous Surface Vessels deployed across the ocean, enabling rapid, cost-effective data delivery tailored to your specif...