Hungry For Wood

Hoquiam, Washington

Three months ago, Mark Sennis received the news that everyone dreads: Ben Murphy, a friend and coworker with whom he “occasionally went out to lunch,” had been diagnosed with cancer.
“You never think you’re going to be the one,” Sennis said. “At first, I remember thinking, ‘How can this be happening to me? What have I [...]

ABERDEEN—After three years of catching the bus to work at the corner of 4th and Heron, area resident Willard Dawes refused to accept the Twin Harbor Metro System’s reworking of its weekday route, which had been clearly delineated in several flyers. “The C bus should’ve been here at 5:28,” Dawes said Monday, standing on the [...]

Just because I happen to live with my four brothers and sisters in my mom’s two-bedroom South Side apartment, work at Taco Bell, and don’t have a car, some ignorant types assume that I don’t have much money. But, as you can clearly see from my $220 Fubu jacket and $95 Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt, I [...]