cross-border issues
photo: Matt Benoit © 2021
Sumas, border town of boom and bust, stays hopeful
April 21, 2021
Matt Benoit
The main thoroughfare through Sumas on its way to the Canadian border isn’t seeing much traffic since the COVID-19 pandemic forced closure of the border crossing to all but essential traffic. Although the town is home to 1,700 people and still growing, closed gas stations, empty storefronts and a lack of grocery stores give the impression of a town in decline.
Community voices / Cascadia’s media ecosystem connects our cross-border bioregion
January 20, 2021
Derek Moscato
Journalism that embraces a larger vision of the international corridor will best serve the Cascadia bioregion’s constituents by setting up the region up to tackle the big challenges of the next century.