Mountain-rescue teams and medics from the Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island prepare to hoist Michael Knapinski into a helicopter, which took him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, during his November rescue at Mount Rainier National Park. (Tacoma Mountain Rescue)
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With moments left of sunlight before a downpour, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz has just emerged from Rich Passage, a narrow tidal strait in Puget Sound, en route to her homeport of Naval Station Bremerton, Sunday, March 7, 2021 after nearly 11-months deployed in U.S. 3rd, 5th, and 7th Fleets during the pandemic. One of two tugs spraying water in celebration is seen, as birds fly through. 216594
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Pedestrian checks their phones in downtown Seattle off Pike Street and 2nd Avenue on Thursday. Sensor surveillance technology is located at more than 300 intersections throughout downtown and is tracking people’s every movement through their cell phones. Thursday, March 4, 2021. 216350
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Young people cross a foot bridge with the Westlake neighborhood seen rising up behind them, Monday, March 1, 2021 in Seattle. The FYI Guy column reports this is one of the most changed neighborhoods in Seattle, detailing that the Westlake area saw the county’s biggest increase in the percentage of young adults who reside there in the past decade. From 2010 to 2019, the neigborhood’s population aged 25 to 34 increased from 36% to 52% of the total. 216533
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FILE – In this Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, the Legislative Building is shown partially shrouded in fog at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Washington state’s richest residents, including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, would pay a wealth tax on certain financial assets worth more than $1 billion under a proposed bill whose sponsor says she is seeking a fair and equitable tax code. Under the bill, starting Jan. 1, 2022, for taxes due in 2023, a 1% tax would be levied not on income, but on “extraordinary” assets ranging from cash, publicly traded options, futures contracts, and stocks and bonds. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Chef Monica Dimas at her restaurant Little Neon Taco in First Hill Sunday November 15, 2020. Governor Jay Inslee has ordered indoor dining to be shut down soon as part of sweeping new restrictions to curb a deadly swell of cases of COVID-19. 215666

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The Seattle Art Museum reopens featuring Jacob Lawrence in a major traveling exhibition. In the first room of Lawrence works is Rich Black Specimen #460 by Hank Willis Thomas in aluminum with powder coat and automotive paint representing a runaway slave. SAM will be open Fridays through Sundays and next First Thursday in April with free admission all day. Capacity will be limited. This is the fourth stop on a five-city tour, and the only WestCoast stop. For more information see seattleartmuseum.org Ref to more photos online LO Linesonly Friday March 5, 2021 216560
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Rabbi Rafi Mollot, dressed as Haman, and Ari Hoffman, on the horse, dressed as Mordechai, pretend to ride through the streets of Shushan as Haman shouts, “This is what you do for somebody the king wants to honor!” In the story of Purim, the evil leader Haman is tricked into dressing Mordechai in the king’s robes. “One of the themes of the holiday is opposites,” said Hoffman, who said he finally gets to play the good guy in the story for a change. Congregants of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath synagogue in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle celebrate Shushan Purim with candy and pony rides for children Sunday February 28, 2021. Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the saving of their people from a threatened genocide at the hands of an ancient Persian leader, Haman. 216509
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Larger than life, a mural of the slain civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., looks out from the corner of East Madison Street at East Pike Street. It’s by artist Lawrence Genette and is part of the Capitol Hill Arts District. Dr. King was only 39-years-old when assassinated: April 4, 1968 in Memphis, He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. (Maybe a Black History Month ref) LO MLK Friday Feb 26, 2021 216505
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Sgt. Darreld Sheppard (CQ) with the Summit Safety Patrol has to climb a berm of snow to get to his office Thursday morning. It was shoveled out later. Ref to more photos online More than 386-inches of snow have fallen this winter at Snoqualmie Pass according to the WSDOT website. and another 30-plus is expected this weekend. (Note: Ck numbers) LO Snow at Snoqualmie Pass Thursday Feb 25, 2021 216500
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