Dave Crumbo, co-owner of Trestle Coffee Company on March Point Road, sees his business as both a local and international social venture. It’s a comfortable place to sit and drink a superb latté, but it also helps children around the world.

In Queen of the Night, New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance brings back the Walker family—introduced in Hour of the Hunter, terrorized in Kiss of the Bees, and last seen in Day of the Dead. A multilayered thriller, gripping and unforgettable — evocatively set in the breathtaking Arizona desert — Queen of the Night is a chilling tale of murder past and present that connects and devastates three separate families.

The I-5/Chuckanut Drive interchange in Burlington will reopen with a new roundabout and repaved southbound I-5 on- and off-ramps at 5 a.m. on Friday, July 30. The interchange will open one day later than originally scheduled. 

Democrat Kris Lytton is gaining momentum in her race to fill the seat vacated by retiring Rep. David Quall. In the past week Lytton has earned the sole endorsements of both the Public School Employees of Washington (SIEU 1948) and the Washington Education Association.

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