The Bellingham Herald

• Cross Country: Porter, teammates looking to take squad to new heights
  Dial Sarah Porter's cell phone, and her outgoing message says if she can't answer it's because "I'm probably out running right now."
  "Probably" might be an understatement. The All-American distance runner, who will be a junior at Western Washington this year, logs more miles in a week than most vehicles not taking daily north-south routes on I-5.
  "125 miles," Porter said, stopping long enough for a phone interview from Hockinson, where she's staying with her parents and training this summer. "So I'm usually out running when people call."

Puget Sound Business Journal

• Cow powered: WWU gets $500k grant for biomethane project
  Researchers at Western Washington University have been awarded a $500,000 grant that will be used in a project that will turn manure from dairy cows into fuel that will power buses in Bellingham.
  The Bellingham school’s Vehicle Research Institute (VRI) has been given the grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand the Biomethane for Transportation project at the school, which is researching turning dairy cow manure into a clean-burning biomethane fuel. Part of the money will install three new biomethane-powered engines in buses used by Bellair Charters of Bellingham.