Old News | Cashmere engineer plans for water system; Golden award received by Judge Lawrence Leahy; Central Washington Hospital receives $10,000 grant
115 years ago—1908
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Print article BLAINE, Wash. — In the shadows of COVID-19 travel restrictions, a 42-acre park on the far western edge of the U.S.-Canada dividing line has become a popular opening in an otherwise closed border, a place where Americans and Canadians can gather without needing permission to go through an official border crossing. What is known as Peace Arch Park has lush green lawns, gardens and a 67-foot-tall white concrete arch erected in 1921 that spans the border. It’s an often muddy, sometimes idyllic place. But the pandemic has transformed this patch of historically neutral ground in...