The Sumner Grade fire, burning up the hillside from Sumner toward Bonney Lake, is fought with helicopter water drops Wednesday. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
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Seattle transportation managers are growing confident that repairs can squeeze at least 15 more years of use out of the cracked West Seattle Bridge. Such repairs would restore six lanes of traffic in 2022, compared to an immediate demolition and replacement that would disrupt travel until 2026 or longer, at greater cost.  VIEW

Mayor Jenny Durkan emerges from the Seattle Emergency Operations Center Tuesday where she would address thousands of demonstrators. Tuesday in Seattle saw a continuation of demonstration and protest over police conduct, but this time demonstrators got what they wanted: an audience with Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best. Photographed Tuesday, June 2, 2020 214134 214134
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The giant Pacifc octopus the Seattle Aquarium named Kraken explores his public exhibit tank. He weighs 35-pounds and only has seven arms, having lost one in an encounter possibly with a harbor seal or ling cod (second arm down, top left) It’s not likely to grow back but is healed and does not hinder him. He’s estimated to be about 1 1/2 years old. Typically they live 3-5 years, during which they grow from the egg size of a grain of rice to up to 150 pounds. But, most in Puget Sound only reach 40-50 pounds. He’s a mature adult at 35-pounds. The aquarium releases the giant Pacific octopuses back into their home waters when they start to reach breeding maturity, so they can find a mate before their end of life. REF TO more photos online LO Linesonly Sept 9, 2020 215005

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FILE – In this Sunday, June 14, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up while walking across the tarmac as he boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J. Trump is returning to Washington. A far-right Norwegian lawmaker says he has nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Prize 2021 for his efforts to reach a peace agreement in the Middle East. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the far-right Progress Party, said on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 that Trump should be considered for his work “for reaching a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel which opens up for possible peace in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) AMB112 AMB112

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The giant Pacifc octopus the Seattle Aquarium named Kraken explores his public exhibit tank. He weighs 35-pounds and only has seven arms, having lost one in an encounter possibly with a harbor seal or ling cod (second arm down, top left) It’s not likely to grow back but is healed and does not hinder him. He’s estimated to be about 1 1/2 years old. Typically they live 3-5 years, during which they grow from the egg size of a grain of rice to up to 150 pounds. But, most in Puget Sound only reach 40-50 pounds. He’s a mature adult at 35-pounds. The aquarium releases the giant Pacific octopuses back into their home waters when they start to reach breeding maturity, so they can find a mate before their end of life. REF TO more photos online LO Linesonly Sept 9, 2020 215005
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Andrew Futerman sprays down a Volkswagen with an audience as Quake Rugby, a local and primarily gay rugby club, holds a car wash fundraiser at The Cuff in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood Sunday September 6, 2020. 214992
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Cleaning up and cooling down at rugby club car wash  VIEW

Jacobbi Meneses, 20, brings a box to a car as the Greater New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church distributes free boxes of produce outside their church on Rainier Avenue South in Seattle Friday September 4, 2020. 214976
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At Bumbershoot this expanse of lawn hosts the Fisher Green stage but is virtually vacant on this Labor Day weekend because the annual music festival is online only. It’s a Bumbershoot-less Labor Day weekend at Seattle Center. Saturday September 5, 2020 LO Linesonly 214987
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At Seattle Center, Labor Day weekend without Bumbershoot  VIEW