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Matriarch of Northwest apple industry passes away at age 194. Not a misprint
It's not often that you'll read an obituary for a tree. Or that a dead tree gets a memorial service of sorts. But then there aren't many like Vancouver, Washington's "Old Apple Tree."
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Seattle special education students have gone months with few services. Will fall be different?
Parents of students in special education are bracing for another round of remote learning — and want answers about how Seattle Public Schools plans to serve students with disabilities after five months with few services. Families in three other districts have filed a lawsuit against the state.
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Coalition of Black activists reviews the state of Seattle's defund movement
‘We are the experts in what will keep us safe, and what will make us whole.’
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Council Member Mosqueda on the Best resignation, rethinking Seattle public safety
‘…this was never personal. This was not about one person.’
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Seattle schools will continue remote learning in the fall, could later implement outdoor education
After mulling over several iterations of a state-required plan for getting kids back to learning this fall, the Seattle Public Schools district will officially go back to online learning come September 2. The plan leaves the door open for some outdoor classes to occur during the 2020-21 school year, if the district moves to a hybrid learning model.
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Some good news (if we can call it that) amid the ongoing pandemic
Today we heard about a few bright spots in the coronavirus pandemic in Washington state. KUOW’s Anna Boiko-Weyrauch attended a briefing from state health officials. She shares what she learned.
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Pandemic cabin fever + boat sales = harassed orcas
Off the west side of San Juan Island, Deborah Giles grabbed her boat’s bright yellow research flag and started waving it at a small boat chopping through the waves.
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Stranded without a farmers market, local producers find another way to sell their products
The pandemic is prompting some small businesses to come up with creative ways to survive. One local food producer found a new way to reach customers when farmers markets were closed during the statewide lockdown.
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Carmen Best and the big picture: Not 'just a story about a police chief resigning'
‘It would be really, really hard for a Black woman within a kind of inherently racist institution, like a police department, to change that police department by herself.’
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Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best Resigns
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigned late Monday just hours after the Seattle City Council took its first major action to cut resources from the city’s police department.
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How to change Seattle policing, according to Chief Carmen Best
Chief Carmen Best says she has a few ideas on how to improve policing in Seattle, as protests against racial injustice continue and the City Council aims to make significant cuts to her department. But Best says that, until recently, she has not been engaged by council members on the issue. Speaking with KUOW’s Angela King, Chief Best laid out her thoughts on changes to SPD, and what she would suggest.
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Gun sales continue to surge across the Seattle-area
When you look at the numbers of gun sales in Western Washington, they mimic the pandemic. As cases of Covid-19 surged in March, so did gun sales. Things leveled