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King County has reached the 70% vaccination mark, mask mandate to disappear in two weeks.
Customers are seen at the Ballard Farmers Market in an entrance stretch of vendors, Sunday, May 30, 2021 in Seattle. According to Doug Farr, executive director of the Seattle Farmers Market Association, the number of customer capacity goes up with the number of vendors, and those have gone up with local harvest produce heading into the end of spring. 320 customers are allowed in, and according to Farr, usually only regular customers will wait in lines to get in (since tourists and cruise traffic is gone). The market looks crowded but Farr points out this is actually way down compared to pre-pandemic Sundays of 18-20,000 customers. 217279 (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
Masked customers walk through the Ballard Farmers Market in May. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
Health

King County hits 70% vaccination mark, mask mandate to disappear in 2 weeks

Seventy percent of county residents 16 and up have now received either the one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, or both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, triggering a two-week countdown on the county's mask mandate. Updated

Tackle Duane Brown (76) is seen watching a drill during Seahawks minicamp, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 in Renton. 217407
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Mike Kelley is the owner of Reckless Video, 9020 Roosevelt Way NE. After 30 years, Reckless Video – the last family-owned video store in Seattle is closing its doors for good at the end of July. 217274
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Tieton cherries drop into a box at Washington Fruit before being shipped to China Wednesday, June 9, 2021 in Yakima, Wash.
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— EMBARGO: NO ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, WEB POSTING OR STREET SALES BEFORE 3:01 A.M. ET ON TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2021. NO EXCEPTIONS FOR ANY REASONS — Ana Castillo tends to her husband, Alberto Castillo, at their home in Fords, N.J., on Dec. 4, 2020. While working mandatory overtime at Amazon’s warehouse on Staten Island in New York City, in the spring, Castillo had been among the first wave of employees at the site to test positive for the coronavirus. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times) XNYT122 XNYT122
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Off-duty Seattle police officer Alexandra B. “Lexi” Harris was struck and killed by a motorist on I-5 Sunday, June 13, 2021.
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Seattle Seahawks strong safety Jamal Adams (33) before an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, in Atlanta. The Seattle Seahawks won 38-25. (AP Photo/Danny Karnik) (Danny Karnik / AP)
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Veterinary assistants Izzy Kominski, left, and Leandra Burt CQ, shave off matted hair from Jack the poodle at a Seattle Veterinary Outreach clinic at the Ballard Food Bank Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Executive Director and founder Hanna Ekstršm CQ says the clinics provide free pet care, exams, vaccines and social service support for people who are low-income, living outside or struggling with housing insecurity. 217347
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FILE – In this March 4, 2018, file photo, then-MacKenzie Bezos arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher. Dan Jewett wrote in a letter to the website of the nonprofit organization the Giving Pledge, on Saturday, March 6, 2021, that he was grateful to be able to marry such a generous person and was ready to help her give away her wealth to help others. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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Signage for Postmates Inc. delivery service is displayed outside a restaurant window in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 9, 2019. Postmates Inc. has filed for an initial public offering, joining a queue of app-driven companies ramping up to go public this year. The food-delivery company submitted its IPO filing confidentially to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said in a statement. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg 775340249
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FILE – In this June 17, 2019, file photo, an Airbus A 350 – 1000 performs a demonstration flight at Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, east of Paris, France. The United States and the European Union on Tuesday appeared close to clinching a deal to end a damaging dispute over subsidies to Airbus and Boeing and lift billions of dollars in punitive tariffs. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, FILE) PAR102 PAR102

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A vaccination record card is shown during a COVID-19 vaccination drive for Spring Branch Independent School District education workers Tuesday, March 16, 2021, in Houston. School employees who registered were given the Pfizer vaccine.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip) TXDP102
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Veterinary assistants Izzy Kominski, left, and Leandra Burt CQ, shave off matted hair from Jack the poodle at a Seattle Veterinary Outreach clinic at the Ballard Food Bank Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Executive Director and founder Hanna Ekstršm CQ says the clinics provide free pet care, exams, vaccines and social service support for people who are low-income, living outside or struggling with housing insecurity. 217347

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— EMBARGO: NO ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, WEB POSTING OR STREET SALES BEFORE 3:01 A.M. ET ON TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2021. NO EXCEPTIONS FOR ANY REASONS — Ana Castillo tends to her husband, Alberto Castillo, at their home in Fords, N.J., on Dec. 4, 2020. While working mandatory overtime at Amazon’s warehouse on Staten Island in New York City, in the spring, Castillo had been among the first wave of employees at the site to test positive for the coronavirus. (Sarah Blesener/The New York Times) XNYT122 XNYT122

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Karla Jefferies sits in her kitchen in Detroit, Friday, March 5, 2021. Jefferies, 64, a retired state worker in Detroit, Michigan, tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020 and has been bothered by puzzling symptoms ever since. First it was fatigue, fever, and no taste or smell. Then came brain fog, insomnia, a nagging smell of something burning that only recently disappeared, and intermittent ringing in her ears. Now she can’t hear out of her left ear. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

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FILE – This Saturday, March 6, 2021 file photo shows vials of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in Denver. On Thursday, June 10, 2021, Johnson & Johnson said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration extended the expiration date on millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by an extra six weeks. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) NY588 NY588

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Karen Milnor steps over a branch during a hike Friday, May 21, 2021. Milnor started hiking during Covid. 217150

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Tackle Duane Brown (76) is seen watching a drill during Seahawks minicamp, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 in Renton. 217407

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Seattle Public Library’s Central Library will reopen on June 22. (AP Photo / Manuel Valdes)

Seattle Public Library to reopen 10 more branches, including Central Library

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Trayon Michael, a member of the Royal House of Noir, competes in face during the Royal Youth Kiki Ball outside the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center in Seattle Saturday, June 5, 2021.
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University of Washington Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) degree candidates gather for a group photo in front of Suzzallo Library. Mackenzie Koehler, left, Kori Wilson (with camera iPhone), Bernie Brady and Larissa Grieves are among the 24 in their class receiving degrees. The campus graduation ceremony is virtual again this year on Saturday. These students have already had a virtual commencement for the two dozen receiving MOTs> (The one person hidden, NO I.D.) They use the covered front entrance to shelter from the rain. (See more photos online) LO Linesonly Friday, June 11, 2021 217370
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Rain doesn’t dampen UW grads’ enthusiasm

The two-week-old penguin chick mistakes Dr. Karen Wolf’s finger for a piece of herring. Keepers and veterinary staff are hand-rearing the rare Magellanic chick back to good health after it was suffering from what appeared to be dehydration. Staff determined the chick needed extra assistance to survive including syringe feedings four times a day. It now weighs over one-pound. Dr. Wolf says, “without veterinary intervention the chick would not have survived. It was weak, dehydrated and unable to feed.” Feedings include a blend of herring and krill, vitamin supplements and herring with skin, bones and fins removed. Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium has fifteen Magellanic penguins in the colony. (Wolf is the head vet at PDZA) It’s the first penguin in the colony they’ve had to hand-feed. Ref to more photos online Linesonly Thursday June 10, 2021 217364
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Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf bobbles a pass but pulls it down as the Seattle Seahawks hold Organized Team Activities Thursday June 10, 2021 at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center in Renton. 217336
Seahawks

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