Calvin Bratt
Tribune editor

Members of the Lynden and Lynden Christian football teams helped the owners of The Loft Restaurant clear out their place in Delft Square on Friday.

LYNDEN -- The Loft Restaurant may have a place to call home after all.

Tim Newcomb
Tribune assistant editor

There was plenty of help when it came time to clear out Three Corners Art & More in Delft Square on Friday.

LYNDEN -- With a rigid set of rules to follow, Delft Square mall tenants were allowed in to assess damage and retrieve property on Friday for the first time since the June 9 fire.

Tim Newcomb
Tribune assistant editor

  LYNDEN -- There are still more questions than answers concerning Delft Square.
  As of Tuesday, tenants still had not been allowed into the building to retrieve property and there is no exact timetable for that.
  Sherman Bronsink, Bellingham resident and building owner, said he doesn’t want anyone inside the building until it has been deemed safe.

Tim Newcomb
Tribune assistant editor

  WHATCOM -- Add just one more thing to the plate of small business owners.
  Under a new rule taking effect July 1, Washington State sales tax will be based on the destination of the product if it is delivered off-site, not the location where the product was sold. It’s an effort to eventually reap the benefits of out-of-state online sales and level the playing field between online retailers not charging sales tax and traditional brick-and-mortar outlets.

Timothy Newcomb
Tribune assistant editor

Insurance representatives, Lynden city officials and a private structural engineer were let into Delft Square on Thursday morning, shortly before the building was released to the owner. Tenants are still waiting to be let into the building pending the engineer's report.

LYNDEN -- Any decision on the fate of the Delft Square building is three to six months away, according to building owner Sherman Bronsink of Bellingham.

Calvin Bratt
Tribune editor

A painting from Three Corners Art lays among ashes on the floor of Delft Square.

LYNDEN -- Larry Harriman, 67, experienced the death of his wife, Gloria, last November, and he said the Delft Square fire was "like another death again."