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Hey, good morning. I'm Patricia Murphy. It's Monday. This is Seattle now. Sound transit board members made painful cuts to account for the agency's multi-billion dollar shortfall. Seattle Times Transportation reporter Mike Lindblum is here to talk about which projects are still on track and which ones have been derailed. But first, let's get you caught up.

To celebrate the start of Pride Month, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson will raise the pride flag

at Seattle City Hall today. She'll be joined by City Council members Deon Foster and Joy Hollingsworth,

as well as several members of Seattle's LGBTQ Commission. This year marks the 14th annual

flag-raising ceremony at City Hall. The event kicks off at noon. Another pickleball club is

opened in the Puget Sound region. Over the weekend, the national chain

Pickler opened a massive pickleball club in federal way with space for 14 courts. Just last month,

the company opened a club in Fremont and Tacoma's getting a facility in September. The Puget

Sound Business Journal reports Pickler's looking to expand next to either Redmond or Bellevue.

And state officials are celebrating a big birthday today. Washington State Ferries turns 75.

It began operation on June 1st, 1951, taking over from the privately owned Puget Sound Navigation Company.

The first trip that day was between lowfall on the Kitsap Peninsula and South Point on the Olympic Peninsula.

To celebrate, the agency is raising an anniversary flag on top of the Space Needle

and hosting a celebration at Coleman Dock today from 3 to 5.

We're back with more headlines on

tonight's episode of Seattle now.

Our communities voted for ST3 and have been paying for it since 2016, and anything less than

what the voters approved is not acceptable. Well, pour one out for the Ballard Light Rail extension.

Despite what King County Executive Germais Zahullai said, it may never get built.

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