Workers raise a box from the repair platform suspended from the West Seattle Bridge where patches and other structural work are being done to fix cracking and a threat of structural failure. The bridge remains closed. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
Workers raise a box from the repair platform suspended from the West Seattle Bridge where patches and other structural work are being done to fix cracking and a threat of structural failure. The bridge remains closed. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Seattle transportation leaders watched for seven years as cracks slowly grew in the West Seattle Bridge. Finally, the cracking accelerated and forced a bridge closure.  VIEW

A group of University of Washington students walk down The Quad as students return to the campus and classes go online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 215220
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SEAHAWKS FILE — Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and backup Geno Smith come out of the tunnel before the Seattle Seahawks take on the Arizona Cardinals for Thursday Night Football at Lumen Field in Seattle Thursday November 19, 2020. 215694
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Washington State running back Deon McIntosh (3) runs for yardage against Southern California in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Los Angeles, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP) CAANR914 CAANR914
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“I can’t breathe,” rings out as protesters lay down on 1st Avenue during the #SeattleJusticeForGeorgeFloyd march on Saturday, June 6, 2020. Demonstrators took to the streets for ninth day of action after George Floyd’s killing. 214181
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Sue Brangwin volunteers putting together food pickups at Hopelink, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 in Shoreline. 215739

This nonprofit works to meet the growing need for housing, food on the Eastside  VIEW

Chelsea Henrickson, an inventory coordinator at Treehouse in Seattle, packs a box of clothes to be mailed to a family in need on Thursday, October 19, 2020. Bags at lower left are filled with clothing and toys waiting to be picked up by local families. Treehouse has converted its store for foster youth into a packaging operation: the nonprofit packs up clothes and supplies and is sending them to youth statewide. 215686

Adapting to the pandemic, this agency helping foster youth built 'something that will be a lasting, new part of our program'  VIEW

Monday, November 16, 2020 FUND FOR THE NEEDY Leilani Chaco and her daughter Emilia are using zoom to talk with occupational therapist Lexie Baasch at Kindering. Today she was showing Emilia how to pull on socks, boots and her jacket. 215657

‘Life-altering for everyone’: Kindering bridges the virtual gap to help kids with special needs

Monday, November 30, 2020 Fund for the Needy Shirley Gillespie uses Sound Generations for Meals on Wheels and for transportation to doctor appointments. She is photographed at her senior apartment in Kirkland. 215758

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Musician Hunter Grier, who performs as honeypot, opened The Vera Project’s first “Safe in Sound” streaming concert with advice to “Just wear a fÉ.ing mask and be cool.”

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Customers at Ichiwa, which has been selling grilled rice flour cakes to travelers for a thousand years, in Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 23, 2020. The mochi seller, and many of Japan’s other centuries-old businesses, have endured by putting tradition and stability over profit and growth. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times) XNYT17

This Japanese shop is 1,020 years old. It knows a bit about surviving crises.  VIEW

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Mickey Ganitch holds up a model of the USS Pennsylvania and points to where he served as a lookout during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, in the living room of his home in San Leandro, Calif., Nov. 20, 2020. The 101-year-old has traveled to Hawaii for the anniversary of the attack almost every year of the past 15 to remember those killed. But this year, nearly eight decades after the bombing that launched the U.S. into World War II, the coronavirus pandemic is forcing him to observe the moment from afar in California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Survivors remember Pearl Harbor at home this year amid virus  VIEW

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An assortment of pot pies made by Logan Niles, the owner of Pot Pie Factory Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 in Seattle. 212776

10 delicious Pacific Northwest food gifts for happier pandemic holidays  VIEW

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Russell Wilson takes an 8-yard loss on this 2nd quarter sack. The New York Giants played the Seattle Seahawks in NFL Football Sunday, December 6, 2020 at Lumen Field in Seattle, WA. 215802

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Justin Pritchett, left, joins David McRae as a partner in the Columbia City independent moviehouse, Ark Lodge Cinemas.

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Despite the restrictions on crowds at public events, downtown Seattle lit its Christmas Tree and unveiled its updated star atop the former Macy’s building Friday, November 27, 2020. Also, in place of the Holiday Carousel is a light display. 215773
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Downtown Seattle brightens up for the holidays  VIEW

A nearly full moon shines above Seattle on Saturday night. The moon was at it’s fullest early Monday morning. This photo was made with a 600 mm lens, using f4 at 1/2000 of a second, ISO 1000. 215768
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With dad Ryan Wells close by, 2-year-old Paige Wells shreds at “Sunset Pump Park” for the first time on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020 in Seattle. According to her father, the track was made encircling a vacant Ballard house by a neighbor who wanted to give kids nearby someplace to let off some energy. After several loops Paige appears a complete natural. 215763
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Successful first ride at Ballard’s ‘Sunset Pump Park’  VIEW

Anna McAllister of Seattle walks her rescued retired racing grey hound Trevor along the Seattle Turkey Trot run route on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020 in Seattle. The run was virtual this year and participants went on their own schedules. McAllister said she always runs the race but decided this year she would make a Trot donation, forgo the tee-shirt, sleep in and walk the route ending at Golden Gardens. 215763
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