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“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.”

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.

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.

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.

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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.”

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.

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."

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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.

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

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.

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.

MARR’S Heating, AC, Plumbing/Electrical has finished the canoe leg in 2:05:47.8. Pacific North Sports is close behind; the team finished the leg in 2:06:54.2. MARR’S has a two-minute lead over the second-place Pacific North Sports.

That means photos and reporting come later, once the highway reopens and our reporters can get back to service.

Coverage of the running to road bike handoff is elusive. Situated at the Shuksan Department of Transportation snow shed (between mileposts 46 & 47) on Mount Baker Highway, the handoff is in a service dead zone.

Fast he went, finishing the leg in 1:18:36.7. That's about 4 minutes faster than Bailey. But thanks to MARR'S lead in the other legs, Pacific North Sports is still in second place.

Matt Bailey, of MARR's Heating and Air, was the first road racer at Riverside Park. But Dylan Fluckiger almost caught him. Bailey had recruited Fluckiger to enter his first Ski to Sea with new team, Pacific North Sports. “It's fun to go fast,” Fluckiger said of the downhill course.

MARR’S Heating, AC, Plumbing/Electrical and Pacific North Sports are neck-and-neck. Both teams have finished the road bike leg. MARR’S took the lead, but only by about 40 seconds. Such a slim lead is surprising after the 41-mile course. The two teams’ canoeists take to the water now.

One of the paddlers, Larry Bussinger, helped put Bellingham on the surfski map and helped launch the kayak leg of Ski to Sea in 1990.

Because the group known as the Barnacles is made up of the "fossils of the sea," or seniors who don't let age define them as athletes.

A rugged team of paddlers take to Bellingham Bay in their surfskis multiple times a week. Atrial fibrillation, polymyalgia rheumatica, strokes and harrowing sporting accidents aren't unusual in this crew. Why?

Sebastian Smith of team Barrett's Privateers juggles while waiting to compete in the canoe leg at Riverside Park.