Frank Atwood, respected Bellingham lawmaker and lawyer, dies at 84

Early on, Tom Resick noticed a pattern to references about fellow Bellingham lawyer Frank Atwood.
"The phrase was, 'the respected Frank Atwood,'" Resick recalled. "There was a reason for that. ... You could trust the man."
Atwood, a longtime member of the bar and an influential state senator for a dozen years, died July 9. He was 84.