I distinctly remember the day my younger brother, Wayne, first came home from the hospital. I was 4 years old and sitting on my front steps when my mom laid that little baby in my arms, and I thought: He's mine. Wayne and I were close our whole lives. I could talk to him about anything.

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The toxicity levels of seaweed at two Skagit County sites were included in a Salish Sea study done by Western Washington University researchers. 

The study, published in the scientific journal PLoS One on Sept. 23, looked at three species of edible seaweed at 43…