Frank Taylor, owner of Frank’s Barbershop and Salon, reads the back of the city sign describing the construction that will start soon on Madison Street. Taylor is one of the merchants along Madison Street who expects traffic congestion and access for customers and deliveries to worsen during the roadwork. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
Frank Taylor, owner of Frank’s Barbershop and Salon, reads the back of the city sign describing the construction that will start soon on Madison Street. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
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Salmon return upriver to their spawning grounds in the Cedar River Thursday October 21, 2021. Sockeye, chinook and coho can be found in the Cedar River and both sockeye and coho turn red during breeding season. The Seattle Aquarium will have naturalists to interpret the salmon journey at four different sites along the Cedar River this weekend, for more information visit: https://www.seattleaquarium.org/salmon-journey 218552 LO
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The Supreme Court building in Washington, hours before the justices left in place a Texas law barring most abortions in the state via an unsigned ‘shadow docket’ ruling, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. With increasing frequency, the court is taking up weighty matters in a rushed way, considering emergency petitions that often yield late-night decisions issued with minimal or no written opinions. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times) XNYT235 XNYT235

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Sally Caverzan, right, a social worker and first-time candidate, is challenging two-term incumbent Rod Dembowski for a seat on the Metropolitan King County Council, representing Northeast Seattle, Shoreline and Bothell.
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FILE – Peter Scolari arrives at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2016. Scolari, a versatile character actor whose television roles included a yuppie producer on “Newhart” and a closeted dad on “Girls” and who was on Broadway in “Hairspray” and “Wicked,” died Friday morning in New York after fighting cancer for two years, according to Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, his longtime manager. He was 66. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) NYET524 NYET524

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Dreamland Bar and Diner in Fremont serves delicious Halloween coctails like the gin, blanc vermouth and apricot liqueur “Viper Black” (left) and the “Swamp Crawler,” (right) made with quince and apple liqueurs and brandy.

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Councilman Sam Smith. left, and Councilwoman Mrs. Phyllis Lamphere were among the pickets at City Hall yesterday. Virtually all were protesting the Pike Plaza urban-renewal plan. Mrs. Lamphere, who supports the urban-renewal plan, was in a sense picketing pickets. At center was Victor Steinbrueck, architect and a leader of Friends of the Market, an organization backing preservation of the Pike Place Market area. Eighty to 100 persons picketed the building yesterday noon. Friends of the Market contends urban renewal would destroy the market’s spirit and result in mistreatment of market-area residents and businessmen. Some city officials contend the market is in disrepair and cannot be saved without the invest-ment of public money. (4/2/1971)

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11-year-old Sully Oswald, of Seattle, tries on a Michael Myers mask (Oswald said he is a fan of the Halloween franchise) as Champion Party Supply does a brisk business with many shoppers getting outfitted early for Halloween, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021 in Seattle. Oswald said he’s going to celebrate Halloween as Rorschach from Watchmen though. 218550
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