When the Amtrak train chugs through Skykomish, a town whose population barely breaks three digits, Monica Ainsley stops everything at Sky River Coffee to go outside and wave at the conductor. A year after opening the business, she hangs on to a tradition she started with her young daughter at the tracks that bisect the town.
Ainsley and her partner had to rehab the historic building on Skykomish’s main drag before they opened the coffee shop. As a waitress nearby, Ainsley knew the tiny settlement had little in the way of community gathering places—just a saloon and a few businesses out on Highway 2, the route that connects Skykomish to Monroe and
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