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Thurgood Marshall Elementary School visual arts teacher Laura Stand shows her young charges how to roar in a lesson that will be delivered digitally. Now that schools are closed statewide, teachers are trying to construct lesson plans to use outside of a classroom. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times)

Education

Confusion, uncertainty on first day of state-mandated remote learning for Washington school districts

Across the Puget Sound region on Monday, teachers, parents and students told stories of confusion and stress about how remote learning would be handled during the unprecedented statewide school closure. WATCH

LiveCoronavirus daily news updates, March 31: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the nation Updated 8:35 am
Coronavirus is posing special challenges for those trained to help the dying and their families
For people in addiction recovery, the isolation of COVID-19 threatens hard-won healing Updated 9:37 am
As rent and mortgage payments come due, Washingtonians wonder how they’ll afford survival during coronavirus Updated 9:15 am
Hospitalizations for COVID-19-like illness declined last week in Washington, offering a glimmer of hope
Puget Sound housing market was among nation’s strongest at the start of 2020. Then coronavirus came.
Inslee: Thousands are calling about stay-at-home violators; online complaint forms to fight coronavirus

As the coronavirus outbreak continues, Aley Willis cuddles with her son Milo, 7, while Phinney residents take part in a block-wide “social distancing singalong,” Sunday March 22, 2020 in Seattle. 213417

Life

Neighbors find powerful ways to stay connected amid Seattle’s coronavirus social distancing

Life

A Seattle-based app that brings a night out to you, and other stay-in date ideas

The lower bridge at right, over the Duwamish Waterway is handling all traffic to and from West Seattle while the higher West Seattle Bridge at left, is undergoing repairs for cracking.

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Traffic Lab

West Seattle Bridge closure already causing snarled traffic on bridge below

Coronavirus

People gather outside Ballard’s Mainstay Provisions, one restaurant that has started selling pantry items in addition to sandwiches, pastries, and coffee.

Here are 5 Seattle restaurants now selling pantry staples like housemade sauce and pickles

Health resources & info »

Where to get tested for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — if you qualify

8 tips for taking care of mind and body while at home during the coronavirus pandemic

Therapy during a pandemic: 'This is new for all of us'

As social distancing measures hit the Seattle area’s parks and outdoor spaces, here’s what’s open and what’s closed

Mapping a pandemic »

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Food & Drink

Kids! Try this Eton Mess dessert recipe from a former ‘MasterChef Junior’ contestant

Staying inside doesn’t have to be all that bad. Puzzles are just one of many activities you can do while at home.

Lifestyle

8 at-home activities that don’t involve TV or books

Seahawk coach Pete Carroll, center, and Seahawk general manager John Schneider watch UW seniors, including tight end Deshon Williams participate in pro day for coaches and scouts at the University of Washington practice facility on April 1, 2019. 209748

Matt Calkins

Seahawks’ offseason additions may not excite fans, but history shows there’s reason to have faith

Editorial

Doctor’s firing in coronavirus crisis shows a failure of corporate medicine

Local News & Politics

Ben Larson, left, and Kelabe Tewolde sign some of their eligible democracy vouchers outside the University District Trader Joes after hearing the pitch from council candidate Shaun Scott, center. Scott and his campaign team work the University District Trader Joes, and encouraged people so inclined to sign Democracy Vouchers if they were so inclined. Photographed Thursday, May 23, 2019. 210362

U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Seattle’s ‘democracy vouchers’

Featured Columnist

Coronavirus shows everyone what people with disabilities have known all along

Education Lab

Students, how are coronavirus-related school closures affecting you?

High school seniors cope with the loss and confusion over next steps during coronavirus

Durkan issues order that will allow her to establish emergency child care while schools are closed for coronavirus

Child care centers are essential to the economy. But can they survive the coronavirus pandemic?

The class of 2020 may get a reprieve from some graduation requirements because of coronavirus closures

Business & Tech

Monday, March 30, 2020. Shermona Mitchell is an actor and director with Seattle Public Theater. She lost six gigs in the span of a month and is not sure she will have a job to go back to when this is over. 213497

As rent and mortgage payments come due, Washingtonians wonder how they’ll afford survival during coronavirus

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Nation & World

In this Sunday, March 22, 2020 photo, the Preston family cheer as they see Elder Kaleb Preston as he returns from his mission in the Philippines, at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Sen. Mitt Romney and Utah state leaders are criticizing a large gathering of family and friends who went to the Salt Lake City airport to welcome home missionaries when people are supposed to be keeping their distance from one another to prevent more spread of the coronavirus. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) UTSAC602 UTSAC602

Facing coronavirus travel bans, the Mormon church has chartered jets to bring thousands of missionaries home

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Times Watchdog

A screenshot submitted as part of a complaint filed with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office against Bellevue company OfferUp, which allows people to sell items online, for allowing alleged coronavirus-related price gouging.

$150 for $7 sanitizer? Price gouging complaints pile up in Washington state amid coronavirus outbreak

Food & Drink

People gather outside Ballard’s Mainstay Provisions, one restaurant that has started selling pantry items in addition to sandwiches, pastries, and coffee.

Here are 5 Seattle restaurants now selling pantry staples like housemade sauce and pickles

Pacific NW Magazine

Josie Alldredge, 18, stands at the summit on Broken Top Mountain.

Nuclear-weapons testing and cancer: A Snohomish teenager carries her family’s legacy to the summit of an Oregon mountain

Editorials & Opinion

Students deserve honest information on sex education | Op-Ed

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Health workers should not have to beg for supplies

Sports

1963 UW FILE: Jim Lambright, as defensive end.

As a player, future UW coaching icon ‘Jimmy’ Lambright was willing to do whatever it took to win

Featured Columnist

Seahawks’ offseason additions may not excite fans, but history shows there’s reason to have faith

Arts & Life

Chris Hemsworth plays a black-market mercenary in “Extraction.”

New to Netflix in April 2020: Chris Hemsworth in ‘Extraction’; comedy ‘Coffee & Kareem’; family feature ‘The Willoughbys’ VIEW

Moira Macdonald

Fuzzy feeling: Seattle neighborhoods create teddy bear scavenger hunt during coronavirus isolation

Photography

Normally vibrant Occidental Park during the day is occupied mainly by seagulls, pigeons, a few homeless individuals and an occasional passerby. The park concierge service and daily activities including chess and table tennis have been suspended because of the coronavirus.

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Local News

Coronavirus in Seattle means a popular park is occupied mostly by pigeons VIEW

LO Smokey fire, 600 Roy Street at Aurora on Saturday March 28, 2020.
Lower Queen Anne.

Appears to be an abandoned apartment.
Unofficial, old banner in many frames has been there awhile

Seattle fire crews responded late Saturday morning to a fire in an abandoned building in Lower Queen Anne, next to Aurora Avenue. … building, which appeared to be a two-story brick structure in the 600 block of Roy Street. 213494

Local News

Crews fight fire in vacant Seattle building for more than 5 hours

Capitol Hill Frame Central employee Thaleia Sundquist and manager Dennis Turner spray paint a stencil of photographer Lance Mercer outside of the store Thursday, March 26, 2020. Turner boarded up the store, which has been open for 25 years, to protect it during closure due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Artist Chloe Guenther created the stencil- is based on a recent self-portrait of Mercer-who is know known for his iconic images of Seattle bands Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone and others.
Mercer, who has a compromised immune system due to Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, has been staying inside his apartment for the last three weeks, with the exception of daily walks with a mask and glasses. Mercer has been sharing his experience on social media, and wanted to emphasize “We are not alone,” he says.
Turner hoped the images of Mercer could “soften the reality” of boarding up longtime businesses and celebrate “how strong and resilient Seattlties are.”
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Local News

The face of resilience on a Capitol Hill storefront in Seattle

One-year-old Bodie Bennett, learning how to walk, gets a helping hand from his parents Erin and Matthew Bennett in a daffodil field along Beaver Marsh Road in Mt Vernon across the street from Roozengaarde in the Skagit Valley on March 19, 2020. 213383 213383

Local News

First steps amid the first blooms in the Skagit Valley VIEW