Tubs of Salsa So Fresh in the Westside Co-op cooler. (Photo by Sandy Mayes)

Bus riders and their packages were dry and comfy on this warm September day. But this now-barren concrete slab in front of DeGarmo's Pharmacy will be a wet and windy place to wait for a bus once the weather turns. (Photo by Sandy Mayes)

Aaron Dixon, Washington state Green Party candidate for the US Senate. (Photo by David McDonald)

Green Party candidate Aaron Dixon and supporters cross the bridge to Indian Island where a short time later 37 anti-war activists were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Indian Island Naval Weapons Depot. (Photo by Elliot Stoller)

Store sign in front of the westside Olympia Food Co-op. (Photo by Sandy Mayes)

Marie Crystiana Smith, a former WIPworker who passed away peacefully of natural causes September 8 in Lacey.