Past stories

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• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000
• 1999
• 1998
• 1997
• 1996
• 1995

Publisher's Profile

News From
The Old Sod

The Sheehan World Archive

• Capt. Kathy Commissions Another Boat
• Aidan Sheehan: Arlington Soccer All Star
• Kathy Sheehan Elected CYC commodore
• Sheehan World Emerges from COVID isolation
• Daylight Forever Memoir: A child refugee's dangerous, solo journey
• Nick Virgilio Writers House publishes haiku, senryu, tanka
• Chuck and Sharon open for America
• Threefer Rocks Out New Year's Eve
• More Music Than Ever in Bellingham
• Boatless in Bellingham Again
• In Memory of Tanya Kerstiens Rowe
• Nov. 8, 2016: A Day That Will Live in Infamy
• Sheehan World Endorses Clinton for President
• RIP: Bill Dingee Sr.
• Love that Selfie!
• Irish Boys Rule!
• Publisher is officially Irish
• 2009: Year of the Nephews
• Sheehan and Dingee in Blue Horse Gallery

2008 Archive

• Christmas Holiday in Photos
• No Longer Boatless in Bellingham
• Molly Moe Makes Trisha a Granny
• Valentine's Day 2008
• Kathy Photo in Gallery Show

2007 Archive

• Christmas Is for Babies
• SCRABBLE Queen Shuffles Letters on Career Rack ... or Kathy Has a New Job
• Sheehan World Celebrates Births, Reunions, Graduation
• Sheehan Attends Atlantic City Press Reunion
• The Year of the Walrus

2006 Archive

• Walrus Releases CD of 11 New Rock Classics
• CJ McCarthy: Virgo "Sheehan" Boy
• PRWeb Art Show Dazzles
• June Wedding for Mike & Dee

2005 Archive

• A bear, a birthday and ...
• Graduation Explosion!
• Kathy hired at PRWeb
• Patrick Hickey and Liz Wetton to marry

2004 Archive

• It's a boy! Aidan Sheehan arrives
• Link to Colleen and Chris wedding photos
• Siblings celebrate landmark birthdays

2003 stories
in The Sheehan World

• Colleen and Chris engaged
• Bill Sheehan makes "Irish Sports Pages"
• Wedding Fever: John and Rebecca to Wed

2002 stories
in The Sheehan World

• Christmas 2002
• 15-hanky wedding
• Visitors and trolls
• Baby brother to wed
• Lowell family visits Bellingham
• Sheehan family home sold
• Snow falling on hot tub

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2001 stories in
The Sheehan World

• Santa Moves to "Meffa"
• Justice Part II (and Dr. N. Thracks)
• Justice, not Vengeance (Part I)
• Tom and Kendra wed
• Great graduates galore!
• Love and birthdays mark spring 2001
• Guy Mulford, dead at 42

2000 stories in
The Sheehan World

• Holiday wishes and year-end review
• John Sheehan named historic relic at age 50
• Lisa Mahan dies at 44
• Prayers for Lisa
• Brendan and Danny are All-Stars
• Bills invade Washington!

1999 stories in
The Sheehan World

• Holidays and millenium
• Windsurfing sucks!
• Student stories are terrific!
• Alma Sheehan, dead at 77
• Sheehan pal Robin Palley flees Philadelphia for West Coast
• Journalism students' profiles and web projects from winter quarter 1999 published

1998 stories in
The Sheehan World

Kathy and Chuck's 1998 reunions
and Journalism students' fine enterprise reporting during the fall quarter.

McCann da Man

Philadelphia Realtor Mike McCann named Sheehan World "Man of the Year" after he sells publisher's home

Publisher defies Chinese censors,
smuggles notes, photos and silk
from People's Republic of China

Caption contest sizzles, fizzles

Dr. Ruth Harvey, counseling psychologist to the socially awkward everywhere, publishes third book on the dozens of ways and hundreds of places to make new friends -- this time in San Francisco!

1997 Stories in
The Sheehan World

Salmon Murdalizer

Visitors to the Sheehan-Dingee compound in Bellingham
reached near record numbers during the summer of 1997.

Students win journalism awards in WWU reporting class, spring 1997

Thirteen students nominated for Sheehan World awards In the 1997 "Great Ledes" and "Press Hat" contest

Salmon murdalizer strikes, but is caught

"You may salute me now"
Kathy earns Coast Guard license after grueling, two-day exam

Oh, the changes Kathy made in 1996 ...

Pictures of 6-month-old Isaac Best, our great nephew

1996 Stories in
The Sheehan World

We survived the Blizzard of '96!

The Sheehan Family Reunion, July 4th 1996

Kathy D. Sheehan, a lifelong sailor and descendant of a line of seafarers, has attained qualifying status for a U.S. Coast Guard captain's license.

Western students master newswriting in spring 1996 journalism class And one, Ryan Hooser, gets his first story published. It's a profile of windsurfer Gene Gerner, who ran into trouble on Bellingham Bay.

Kathy's sculpture is featured in Fairhaven "Green Art" show

1995: The first issue of
The Sheehan World

Philadelphian Enjoys Pacific Rim Trade-offs
No more quick dinners in Chinatown. Goodbye wage tax and outrageously expensive car insurance bills. The Philadelphia folk festival is a distant, humid memory. New Pacific Northwest resident Kathy Sheehan has discovered the sublime tradeoffs of her 3,000-mile move.