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After 7-year battle, neighbors rejoice as dead end becomes public beach

Sue Pope walks her dog Monday at the new city park at the end of Northeast 130th Street, which turns into Lake Washington. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

A tiny beach lot on the Lake Washington shoreline near Lake City now exists as a park. It took seven years of court wrangling and, most recently, an $800,000 payout by the city of Seattle, to make it happen.

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Vanderbilt’s Ethan Paul leads a trio of Seattle-area players in the College World Series | Larry Stone

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Business

Apple plans to add 2,000 employees in Seattle

Apple will add 2,000 employees in Seattle over the next 5 years. The tech giant said it will settle in two buildings under construction in South Lake Union.

United States’Megan Rapinoe scores her side’s second goal from a penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Spain and US at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims, France, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ALT156 ALT156

World Cup

U.S. is in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals after 2-1 win over Spain

The defending champions head to Paris to face France on Friday. VIEW

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Former Seattle SuperSonics great Lenny Wilkens smiles before raising a “12th Man” flag, honoring Seattle Seahawks fans, atop the Space Needle Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Seattle. The Seahawks play the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) WAET103

Other Sports

After 40 years, Lenny Wilkens is stepping away from his foundation

Dr. Ron Naito cuddles his cat, Dolly, at his Portland, Ore., home in May 2019. The poor delivery of Naito’s diagnosis with stage 4 pancreatic cancer left him determined to share his experience with future physicians. (Michael Hanson for Kaiser Health News)

Health

Oregon doctor with grim diagnosis is sharing a final message about how physicians break bad news

A Corendon Airlines (from Turkey) 737 MAX 8, takes off to the south from the Renton Municipal Airport heading to Spokane late Tuesday afternoon May 14, 2019. This 737, on order for the Turkish airlines, was being tested throughout the afternoon. The Renton Municipal Airport is adjacent to the 737 factory in Renton.

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Times Watchdog

The inside story of MCAS: How Boeing’s 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards VIEW

Editorial

Deportation threats don’t fix immigration

Local News

King County Sheriff’s Officers investigate a shooting at SW 98th Street and 17th Avenue SW in White Center Sunday June 23, 2019. –

Sheriff’s office will step up patrols in White Center after recent shootings

Traffic Lab

4,500 Expedia employees are coming to Interbay in Seattle. How will the company avoid a traffic mess?

‘Life changer’: Free Orca transit cards going to 1,500 public-housing residents in Seattle

To improve intersection safety, Seattle is giving pedestrians a head start

After years of complaints, Metro hires a new contractor for its Access paratransit service

Highway 99 tunnel users won’t have to pay tolls until sometime this fall

Business & Tech

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Apple plans to add 2,000 employees in Seattle

SpaceX launches hefty rocket with 24 satellites VIEW Updated 5:00 am
Sellers in Amazon’s bookstore feel beaten up by counterfeit Wild West
Why transparency on medical prices could actually make them go higher
High court strikes down ‘scandalous’ part of trademark law Updated 4:14 am
High rollers: Eldorado buys Caesars in deal valued at $17B Updated 4:53 am

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Just over seven weeks after it rolled out of the paint hangar, Boeing’s first 737 MAX “the Spirit of Renton” lifts off the runway and flew for the first time Friday, from Renton Municipal Airport at 9:48 a.m. January 29th, 2016.

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Local News

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The souther resident orca L87, also known as Onyx) travels a traditional route that follows salmon migration in Haro Strait, a location also bisected by shipping lanes. The route follows the haro strait to boundary pass and then up the strait of Georgia toward the Frazier River near Vancouver right along the shipping lanes. This photo was taken north of San Juan Island near Stuart island. ONE TIME USE!!!

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Food & Drink

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A quest for ‘stereotypical American food’ leads to a universal embrace of cultures, flavors — and boxed Japanese curry mix

Editorials & Opinion

Hard-line immigration policies have our Latino neighbors scared and traumatized | Op-Ed

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At least he’s a talker, not a fighter

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Stop worrying and learn to love Super Hawk Bolton?

Sports

Former Mariners pitcher and current ROOT Sports analyst Ryan Rowland-Smith, trains at Sumner Ninja in Sumner to compete in the TV show “American Ninja Warrior” Friday, May 10, 2019. The show is taping in Tacoma on May 11-12, and it should air around late June. 210218

Former Mariners pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith searches for his inner ninja | Matt Calkins VIEW

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Vanderbilt’s Ethan Paul leads a trio of Seattle-area players in the College World Series

Photography

B-17 Flight Engineer Angel Estrada wipes down one of the four Curtis Wright radial engines on a Boeing B-17G at Boeing Field next to the Museum of Flight Friday, June 21, 2019. The aircraft and four other planes are at the Museum all weekend and are owned and operated by the Collings Foundation. Visitors can pay to ride in any of the five aircraft: Boeing B-17G, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, North American B-25 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang and a P-40 Warhawk. Flights on all the aircraft can be reserved at the airfield throughout the day both Saturday and Sunday.

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Weekend Events

History flies in for a weekend visit at Boeing Field

Friday, June 21, 2019. Artist and architectural designer Kimberly Corinne Deriana smiles after addressing the crowd during the dedication of a Medicine Sundial designed in collaboration with Coast Salish carvers. It is Deriana’s first major public art commission. The temporary public sculpture, which is intended to bring healing, recognition and awareness of First People, has been installed at King Street Station Plaza.
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Local News

Indigenous art installation debuts at King Street Station

It’s not everyday you get to see, up close, a monstrance or vessel from circa 1863 of gilded copper, enamel, glass and precious and semiprecious stones. It’s part of the the new Seattle Art Museum exhibition “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement.” About three dozen took the press preview Tuesday. The exhibit opens Thursday and continues through Sept. 8. The architect J.F. Bentley designed this monstrance for the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi in London’s Notting Hill. The exhibition features 150 works from the Birmingham Museum of Art, many never shown outside the United Kingdom.

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Entertainment

‘Victorian Radicals’ SAM exhibition VIEW

Never too young to dance, Four-year-old Cedar Christopherson contributes to the Alaska Kuteeyaa Dancers performance during the Indigenous People Festival at Seattle Center Saturday. Kuteeyaa means “totem” in Tlingit. Cedar also improvised some steps while the Tlingit group performed on the Armory stage

The festival celebrates indigenous cultures with song, dance, art and food with many Native groups collaborating.

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Seattle Center event showcases Native American culture VIEW

Entertainment

“Washington Black” by Esi Edugyan

Moira’s Book Club’s discussion of Esi Edugyan’s ‘Washington Black’ postponed to Tuesday, July 2

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Jeffrey G. Ojemann, MD, Division Chief of Neurosurgery, left, talks with tattoo artist Gary Williams before undergoing microsurgery to remove the epileptogenic cortex, the part of the brain causing his seizures.

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Epilepsy patient Gary Williams donates part of his brain to science while he — and his healthy tissue — is still alive

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