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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 02/10/2026

Friday, Oct. 2, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 25/09/2026

Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 20/09/2026

Maureen Scott is well-versed in MBT’s alleged hauntings by a ghost named "Judy," who is known to appear in photographs as a strange blue mist.

Maureen Scott poses on Sept. 4 alongside a re-creation of Judy the ghost, made with colored lighting and a small amount of haze. MBT staff and visitors say Judy has haunted the downtown Bellingham building for a century. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 20/09/2026

As a lifelong lover of live theater, Sarah Witte used MBT to supplement her kids’ education. “We had four under 5 for a little while, and those were the intense years of going to the theater,” she recalled. “It was something to do with the kids that was great exposure for them."

Sarah Witte, president of the Mount Baker Theatre Board of Directors, sits inside the auditorium surrounded by the hundreds of recently installed new seats. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 20/09/2026

Ahead of Mount Baker Theatre's 100th season, we spoke to current and former residents who’ve come to know MBT through the eras: as a cinema, Broadway venue, educational resource and — allegedly — one of the city’s most haunted landmarks.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 18/09/2026

Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 11/09/2026

Friday, Sept. 11, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 07/09/2026

Now, “Monument 47” has become a northern terminus for the 2,600-mile trek. “I’ve had dreams to say what it feels like to finish the PCT,” said hiker David Whitehair at the monument Wednesday. “While this isn’t the northern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail, it is nothing short of astonishing.”

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 07/09/2026

But this summer, a 5-foot-tall pillar located 47 miles east of Point Roberts — an unknown artifact in the Whatcom backcountry until six weeks ago — was found by PCT hiker and French schoolteacher Lucile Sarrazin as she sought to find the U.S.-Canada border.

French schoolteacher Lucile Sarrazin stands at Monument 47 on July 31 in Whatcom County. Known as “Early Bird” on the PCT, Sarrazin, 36, created a route from Concrete to a remote spot above Glacier. Now other hikers are choosing to end the PCT at the Whatcom County border obelisk. (Photo courtesy of Lucile Sarrazin)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 07/09/2026

The traditional northern terminus of the PCT is 30 miles north of Harts Pass in the Pasayten Wilderness. The route has been closed since late July because of the Ptarmigan Fire.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 07/09/2026

Bellingham's backyard has suddenly become an outdoors “underground railroad” for thru-hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail after wildfires in Washington have necessitated an alternate ending.

Someone left a notepad in a Ziplock bag at Monument 47 so thru-hikers can log the day that they finished the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. (Photo by Elliott Almond)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 04/09/2026

Friday, Sept. 4, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 31/08/2026

“Local repair shops are a treasure,” Right to Repair pioneer Kyle Wiens said. “They’re part of the fabric of our community, and it’s so important that we have local entrepreneurs who are supporting our community, who can repair our phones, our laptops.”

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 31/08/2026

There hasn’t been much coverage since the legislation went into effect, but a lot has happened behind the scenes. Around one-third of Americans now live in a state with some form of Right to Repair laws, and members of Congress have renewed their push for federal action.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 31/08/2026

Washington’s Right to Repair Act passed in 2025, enabling owners and independent repair businesses to maintain and fix certain consumer devices.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 28/08/2026

Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/08/2026

A dispatcher transferred the call to Bellingham Mountain Rescue, an all-volunteer nonprofit group offering free year-round service. About 90 minutes after talking to a BMR volunteer, the climbers heard the hum of the Navy’s MH-60s Knighthawk helicopter.

Dempster heard the whirl of a rescue helicopter after he fell on the Fisher Chimneys. The first attempt of an airlift failed because of low visibility. (Photo courtesy of Justin Dempster)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/08/2026

On the descent, Dempster made a false move and slid down 20 feet. He snapped his tibia and fibula bones in his left leg. Unable to move far, he hobbled to a flat spot on the slope and called 911.

Dempster enjoys a quiet moment on Mount Shuksan before the weather turns rainy to make his descent on July 26 challenging. (Photo courtesy of Justin Dempster)

Dempster, with broken left leg secured, waits while rescuers prepare for his evacuation off the rugged mountain. (Photo courtesy of Bellingham Mountain Rescue)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/08/2026

Justin Dempster has been summiting Washington’s volcanoes for the past two years. On July 26, Dempster and his friend started their descent down Mount Shuksan after a forecasted drizzle turned into a cold, wet morning on the glaciated massif.

Justin Dempster, 36, works on his gear high on a ridge on 9,131-foot Mount Shuksan in the North Cascades. (Photo courtesy of Justin Dempster)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 14/08/2026

Friday, Aug. 14, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 09/08/2026

Frustrations don’t only stem from recreational crabbers skirting the rules. State commercial crabbers must wait the longest to begin harvesting. Once recreational crabbers’ reports are in, state commercial fleets can fish, but they have to wait up to two months to know what share remains for them.

Clint Avery measures a Dungeness crab before putting it in his livewell. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 09/08/2026

All three groups are required to report their harvest on a catch reporting card. Recreational crabbers abide by what critics call an "honor system" with meager penalties. Not reporting on time can delay scheduling for commercial crabbers, who face strict enforcement and consequences.

Brandon Sly takes a crab out of the pot. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 09/08/2026

Puget Sound’s Dungeness crab season is nothing short of an ordeal. As tribal commercial, state commercial and recreational crabbers divvy up a finite resource, no one is 100% satisfied with harvest shares, enforcement or scheduling.

Clint Avery pulls his crab pot from the water a few days after a tribal opener in Marina 7. Thirteen state enforcement agents are responsible for tracking harvests in the state’s Marina 6–12, where the majority of harvests occur. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 07/08/2026

Friday, Aug. 7, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 31/07/2026

Friday, July 31, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 26/07/2026

While Amelia Pichardo grows without chemicals, the organic label is costly. She can't justify it when the land she grows on this year might be unavailable next year. Selling without the organic label has raised questions from customers: “Some customers do believe me, and other customers don’t."

Amelia Pichardo ties string along her rows of fava beans to keep the plant stable as it grows the large legume. Save for the occasional help from a long-time friend, Pichardo operates alone, balancing work across multiple fields, Saturdays at the Bellingham Farmers Market and driving her daughter to work in the mornings. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 26/07/2026

Livestock operation success can be measured by the number of animals on a farm — hosting more animals requires more land. Even if Elizabeth Link could get a loan for $1 million, the idea of “being mortgaged to the hilt from the very beginning doesn’t sit well with my family,” she said.

Elizabeth Link stops by to visit her sheep, who are currently grazing on a 16-acre plot just outside of Bellingham. She gives them water and, in the case of this ewe, checks their skin in spots where flies gather around its wool. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 26/07/2026

The land Eden Lopez Paramo rents has been reliable, and he gets along with the owners. He wants to buy land, and they want to sell it to him. But the loan available through the federal Farm Service Agency (FSA) maxes out at $600,000 — “it’s not enough to buy the land,” Paramo said.

A jet of water chips away at the dirt still clinging to the carrots Juan Sandoval Reyes is washing. His niece, Sonia Morales, and her husband, Eden Paramo, own Eden’s Wonderful Garden. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 26/07/2026

First-generation farmers do not inherit a legacy including land, resources and a customer base. Instead, they build a business from the ground up — doing the laborious work of farmworkers while juggling operations and struggling to turn a profit.

From top to bottom: Elizabeth Link, Eden Paramo and Amelia Pichardo work on land that they don’t own. Their time on it is as temporary as the rows of vegetables and herds of livestock they tend to. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/07/2026

Friday, July 24, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 17/07/2026

Friday, July 17, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 10/07/2026

Friday, July 10, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 03/07/2026

Friday, July 3, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News — featuring our special section "America 250." Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 26/06/2026

Friday, June 26, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 21/06/2026

“It wasn’t a bad place,” he tells people. “It was a place where thousands of people had the best lives they could have had at the time.”

John Horne stands inside at the Sedro-Woolley Museum’s Northern State Hospital exhibit on June 13 in Sedro-Woolley. Horne has spent years researching and uncovering headstones at Northern State Hospital. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 21/06/2026

History enthusiast John Horne has spent years researching and uncovering headstones at the cemetery. Northern State left behind a complicated legacy, but Horne says it’s wrong to demonize the institution.

John Horne began trying to find grave markers in the Northern State Hospital Cemetery around 2020. In total, he located about 600 graves and identified about 200. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 21/06/2026

A dedicated volunteer, a descendant of a Northern State patient and an award-winning Seattle Times series helped bring public attention to the state of the cemetery. Now, plans are in place to improve the cemetery and add a memorial identifying those buried.

Grave markers at the Northern State Hospital Cemetery are labeled with only a number and patient initials. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 21/06/2026

There are more than 1,600 people buried at the Northern State Hospital, a former psychiatric institution in Sedro-Woolley, but only one name is preserved in full. The rest are labeled with only numbers and patient initials; their grave markers have sunk into the ground over time.

The Northern State Hospital graveyard, the near field, is not far from buildings associated with the former mental institution. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 19/06/2026

Friday, June 19, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 12/06/2026

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 05/06/2026

Friday, June 5, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-daily-news or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 01/06/2026

Caroline Hardin, an associate professor in computer science, works to convince students they still need to learn how to code by hand and not rely on AI. She said giving a first-year student a generative AI tool to code is like “giving a 16-year-old driver a Ferrari.”

Caroline Hardin poses for a photograph inside the Learning Resource Center. The Western Washington University computer science professor works with her college students and children of all ages so they can better understand the technology around them. While this natural curiosity extends to artificial intelligence, she cautions against the use of the technology as way to bypass learning the fundamentals of computer science. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 01/06/2026

Visiting professor Max Barahona, meanwhile, embraces AI — using it for five hours a day, mostly for professional purposes. He created an AI-generated avatar that looks and sounds like him, which students can interact with to ask questions about the course.

Max Barahona, a visiting professor at Western Washington University, poses with various versions of the AI chatbot he trained using his image and knowledge. Barahona encourages his students to interact with the bot and ask it questions as if it were Barahona himself. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 01/06/2026

Xi Wang, an assistant professor at the Institute for Energy Studies and the Department of Environmental Studies, isn't the strictest professor at WWU regarding AI, but requires students to use pen and paper when answering questions about readings, leading to more “robust discussions."

Xi Wang, an assistant professor at Western Washington University, flips through a stack of their students’ written assignments. Wang put an emphasis on written work and group discussions in their classroom after suspecting some students were using AI to complete assignments. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 29/05/2026

Friday, May 29, 2026 edition of Cascadia Daily News. Read online at replica.cascadiadaily.com/cascadia-dai... or pick up a print copy.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/05/2026

MARR’S finished the cyclocross course first at 12:45:33.6, and Pacific North Sports finished second at 12:47:57.2. Boomer’s Drive-In came in third, 7 minutes behind second-place Pacific North Sports.

Cyclocrosser Ian Fay of team Evil Bike Company hops over obstacles near the start of the penultimate leg of Ski to Sea. (Isaac Stone Simonelli/Cascadia Daily News)

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/05/2026

Flags are flying in the high winds as spectators wait for the first kayakers to reach the beach at Marine Park.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/05/2026

Top-5 cyclocross finishers: 1. MARR'S Heating, AC, Plumbing/Electrical 2. Pacific North Sports 3. Boomer's Drive-In 4. Yeager's Sporting Goods 5. Inn at Lynden The sea kayak leg has begun.

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 24/05/2026

Bob Woodman and Glenn Bond, the dynamic duo behind MARR’s, have finished the leg in first place multiple years in a row. Woodman, 63, said the river was slow and had some “tricky” places, with shallow water.

Bob Woodman and Glenn Bond of team MARR’S Heating, AC, Plumbing/Electrical come charging out of the Nooksack River only a few minutes ahead of the second-place team. (Isaac Stone Simonelli/Cascadia Daily News)

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