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Restaurants can begin to offer in-house dining in Washington’s three largest counties, as the state Health Department approved applications from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties on Friday, June 5, to move to new phases of reopening the economy. Above, empty seating at Purple Cafe and Wine Bar in downtown Seattle on April 14. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)
Restaurants can begin to offer in-house dining in Washington's three largest counties, as the state Health Department approved applications from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties on Friday, June 5, to move to new phases of reopening the economy. Above, empty seating at Purple Cafe and Wine Bar in downtown Seattle on April 14. (Amanda Snyder / The Seattle Times)
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Limited restaurant dining can resume in King, Pierce, Snohomish counties as state OKs coronavirus reopenings

Restaurants can begin to offer in-house dining in Washington's three largest counties, as the state Health Department approved applications from King, Pierce and Snohomish counties on Friday to move to new phases of reopening the economy. Updated

Lummi tribal chief Bill James, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, on the Lummi Reservation, Wash. 0438366416 Decade 0438366416
Obituary

Bill James, hereditary chief at Lummi, master weaver, dies at age 75

A patron of the library sits inside the main part of the Columbia branch of the Seattle Public Library, located at 4721 Rainier Ave. S. in Seattle Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Mayor Jenny Durkan is proposing a new 7-year, $213 million Seattle library levy to replace the 7-year levy expiring at the end of this year. The new measure would include $14 million for seismic retrofits of the Columbia, Green Lake and University branches. 209614
Books

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The world’s forests are getting shorter and younger as climate change and land use change, including logging, disproportionately take out big trees. Big trees are more vulnerable to drought, insects, windstorms and lightening, all of which are intensifying in a warming world. Losing old growth also makes climate change worse, because big old trees store the most carbon.
Environment

Death of the giants: Forests getting shorter, younger, in Northwest and elsewhere

Coronavirus

Two security workers are diminished by a giant plywood panels on the sidewalk outside the former Macy’s store at Pine and 3rd Avenue, Wednesday, June3, 2020. Everywhere in downtown Seattle there is plywood covering broken out windows and windows that are still in one piece.. 214149

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Cool, cloudy, gray weather to linger through weekend and beyond in Seattle area

Bethany Jean Clement’s pizza made with the overnight dough recipe of Brandon Pettit of Delancey and Dino’s pizza-fame. This one’s got taggiasca olives and crimini mushrooms on it, with some grated parm in addition to mozzarella.
Food & Drink

How to make really good pizza at home during coronavirus times — with a crust recipe from a top Seattle spot

Megan Rapinoe was on the sideline of Wednesday’s Storm playoff game. The Seattle Storm played the Minnesota Lynx in the first game of the WNBA Playoffs Wednesday September 11, 2019 at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, WA. 211447
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Accountability key to Seattle police reform

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The Space Needle is framed in shifting cloud patterns as the sun tries to peek through Sunday February 17, 2019. 209364

Cool, cloudy, gray weather to linger through weekend and beyond in Seattle area

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Don’t buy the ‘outside agitator’ trope: Arrest records suggest Seattle’s riot was more likely homegrown

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See the traffic patterns before and during Washington’s coronavirus stay-home order

West Seattle Bridge report explains how a partial collapse would lead to demolition

Local transit systems make slow return to charging fares as coronavirus restrictions ease

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Business & Tech

Tech writer Brian Chen rides the electric Ride 1Up 700, which sells for $1,495. A VanMoof S3 e-bike cost $1,998. (Jim Wilson / The New York Times) For use with NYT story by Brian X. Chen

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Nation & World

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, June 5, 2020, in Washington. White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow, left, and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, top right listen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) DCEV408 DCEV408

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Venus Mills, Executive Director of Drug Free Business in Bothell has had her workers hit by false unemployment claims and faces possible costs increases herself, due to the fraudulent payments. Photographed on May 22, 2020. 214039

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Food & Drink

Bethany Jean Clement’s pizza made with the overnight dough recipe of Brandon Pettit of Delancey and Dino’s pizza-fame. This one’s got taggiasca olives and crimini mushrooms on it, with some grated parm in addition to mozzarella.

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THEN: With its distinctive pillars, Plymouth’s third church building stood facing east on Sixth Avenue between Seneca and University Streets (ca. 1940). After structural damage from the 1965 Puget Sound earthquake, it was demolished and replaced by the current building.

Historic downtown church confronts Seattle’s ‘original sin’

Editorials & Opinion

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Three dates that will determine how we get back to ‘normalcy’

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Sports

Safeco Field head groundskeeper Bob Christofferson prepares to mow the newly placed glass for the Seattle Mariners on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. Christofferson said, “It needed a little haircut.” 204083

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The ‘Sodfather,’ Bob Christofferson, ends career as Mariners’ head groundskeeper in bittersweet fashion

Arts & Life

Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. A selection of Pie Guy Bill Hart’s pies photographed at his bakery/restaurant. 204130

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Photography

A group dubbed “The Puffy Pandemic Parade” cross NE 65th St. in the Ravenna neighborhood for a march past the Ida Culver House retirement home, Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in Seattle. Organizer Jean Bryant describes the group as all NE Seattle friends. The group has marched one other time and the goal is to spread cheer during the coronavirus outbreak. On this march, the 14 staged in the parking lot of a pub, getting into their inflatable costumes to wave to residents at the retirement home for half an hour. Many residents and staff waved back. “I was tearing up when I was doing this,” said Bryant as she saw “lots of smiles, dancing and waving.” The group plans to keep marching. In a follow-up text Bryant said “We will definitely continue as long as the pandemic is around.” 214066
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For no other reason but to send out “good vibes,” married couple Mike and Jacqui Schultz, who want to include mention of their camera-shy daughter Marley, have put up an inflatable in their Crown Hill neighborhood in Seattle, seen Sunday, May 24, 2020 during the coronavirus outbreak. They said it’s working, and many neighbors have responded with happy comments and have made regular visits during walks. 214046
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Framed by small flags on veterans’ graves, bagpiper Neil Hubbard plays appropriate songs on Memorial Day at Floral Hills Cemetery in Lynnwood. Songs included “Amazing Grace,” “Going Home,” the anthems of the military branches, “America the Beautiful,” and more. Ref to gallery online. Hubbard walked the grounds and played for two hours. LO Linesonly Monday May 25, 2020 214050
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Bagpipes mark Memorial Day  VIEW

Plenty of roam to roam on the Fisher Green lawn at Seattle Center with no Northwest Folklife Festival this weekend, except online. Saturday May 23, 2020 LO Linesonly 214049
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Sorry folks, no Folklife this weekend  VIEW