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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)
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)
Grave markers at the Northern State Hospital Cemetery are labeled with only a number and patient initials. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)
The Northern State Hospital graveyard, the near field, is not far from buildings associated with the former mental institution. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
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)
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)
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)
Kayaker Ian Sawyer of team Pacific North Sports crosses the finish line first. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News)
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)
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)
Canoeists depart from Riverside Park in Everson. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
Ben Coupaud of Pacific North Sports finished the leg in 38:06.9. (Photo by Eli Voorhies)
Marcus Ribi of MARR’S Heating, AC, Plumbing/Electrical was the first runner to finish with a time of 36:29.2. (Photo by Eli Voorhies)
Matt Bailey, left, was the first road racer at Riverside Park. But Dylan Fluckiger, 24, almost caught him. (Photo by Elliott Almond)
A pack of road bikers race along South Pass Road near Nooksack. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
Larry Bussinger kayaks with friends from Marine View Park to Waypoint Park and back in February. Bussinger plans to compete in his 41st Ski to Sea this year. Now 76, he helped introduce kayaking into Bellingham’s premier Memorial Day weekend event in 1990. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)
The Barnacles paddle back to Marine Park. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)
Surfski kayakers Tim Niemier and Dorothy Burke stretch before setting out on a paddle. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)
Marjorie carries a young Gretchen on her back in an old family photo, circa the 1980s. (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Leggitt)
Marjorie Leggitt dips her brush in more paint as she paints a bell pepper. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
Gretchen and Marjorie practice dance together in an old family photograph. (Photo courtesy of Gretchen Leggitt)
Gretchen Leggitt’s massive kelp forest mural, located at 3805 Elwood Ave. (Photo courtesy of Kris Gray)
Kids’ water bottles stand on homemade shelves nailed into a tree in the Lil’ Sprouts Child Care playground. Whatcom County is funding a kitchen expansion project that will enable the Blaine center to take in an additional 15 kids. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)
A “Subsidy Available” sign hangs prominently from a Lil’ Sprouts Child Care building in Blaine. Zabrina Swendt, center director at Lil’ Sprouts, said about half the children she helps care for attend on subsidy. She said the center is working on opening more subsidized slots. “We’ve been noticing a very huge increase in need for care,” Swendt said. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)
Lydia Dahl gives her children, Logan, left, and Elaine, a hug when she picks them up from child care at Lil’ Sprouts in Blaine. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)
Puget Sound Energy fish and wildlife specialist Josiah Lugg lifts a tank of fish from Baker Lake with a crane. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
The floating surface collector sits in Baker Lake at the Upper Baker Dam near Concrete. The structure is used to gather juvenile salmon, survey them and then load them into a container to be transported to the lower Baker River, bypassing PSE’s two dams. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
The Baker River flows downstream below the Upper Baker Dam. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
Juvenile salmon swim down a chute en route to being released beyond the Lower Baker Lake dam. (Finn Wendt/Cascadia Daily News)
Early into the walk, Kate Brown points out a tree she often stops at to look for birds. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)
A yellow-rumpled warbler clings to a branch blowing in the wind more than 25 feet above the ground. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)
Clove Veach peers at a duck through their binoculars during a bird walk hosted by Bird Bellingham in Whatcom Falls Park. (Santiago Ochoa/Cascadia Daily News)
Daffodils bloom at Maggie Murphy’s family’s land on Samish Island on March 21. Dutch farmers weren’t the first people to bring tulips to Skagit Valley. That honor belongs to Mary Stewart, who had bulbs shipped over from Holland in 1903 and went on to found one of Skagit’s most profitable early flower farms. (Andy Bronson/Cascadia Daily News)
The cover of a 1935 catalogue for Mary Stewart’s bulb business. (Photo courtesy of Anne Murphy)