As most people know by now, Auburn’s $59 million road bond went down in last week’s special election, barely reaching a simple majority when it needed a 60-percent super majority.
Violations at red light photo enforced intersections and school zones continue to drop, according to the Auburn Police Department’s latest report card on the program, “Photosafe Auburn, First Quarter Report, Jan.-March 2008-2012.
Man killed wife because she “had problems with men.”
Unkempt, weed wild, returning to nature, too many of Auburn’s 40 landscape medians looked like crazy salads tossed into the middle of the street.
The City of Auburn has never been shy about sharing its hopes for attracting new development to the downtown to expand its tax base.
Auburn voters on Tuesday night were asked to render judgment on a $59 million bond measure that would repair 31 miles of aging commuter and freight corridors, and make improvements at key intersections throughout Auburn.
Court officials take precautions, impose tight security during sentencing
A tidy clutch of ceramics teachers and students gathered in Green River Community College’s Salish Hall room 170 last week for the annual throwing of clay bowls.
Midway through one of the many speeches marking the opening of the Auburn Environmental Park boardwalk at the north end of Western Avenue last Thursday, some brash, noisemaking so-and-so stole the thunder.
The Auburn Valley Humane Society and the City of Auburn will join together to celebrate the groundbreaking and remodeling of an animal shelter.
Workers are finishing up Auburn’s biggest downtown building project in decades. And folks who’ve waited a long time to see the South Division Street Promenade done are preparing to cheer.
Like many people today, 21-year-old Rachell Bechtle of Auburn wanted to upgrade her skills, get into a better trade, land a good job.
City leaders weigh keeping or removing some red-light photo signs
On a lichen-covered fence post leaning wearily out of wetlands-once-farmlands, a bird preens its bright feathers in the light of an early spring afternoon.
Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report for the 2011 program year — now there’s a title to thrill and chill.
Nick Konkler is a young man of few words, a steady fire. Until somebody mentions tires, camshafts, cars. Then watch the eyes flash, the step quicken, the confidence leap. Must be some sort of high-octane fuel additive in those words.
Auburn Gateway, a private school operating out of Messiah Lutheran Church in Auburn, abruptly closed its doors March 6, surprising parents and students alike.
The sudden closure followed hard upon allegations that the school’s former director, Emily Gomes, had mishandled funds, media reports say.
Gomes resigned the following Friday, and the school canceled classes indefinitely.
Water rippling gently about her stick legs, head topped by a distinct tuft of dark feathers, the heron waits with stony patience and unmoving eye the faintest flicker in the bank-hugging grass, the splash midstream.
This particular bird is actually Bonney Lake artist Mary Ellen Bowers’s clever mosaic of Starbucks cards, hung on the east wall of the art gallery at 113 East Main Street.
Bowers was there Tuesday night for the gallery’s grand opening, delighted to be swallowed up by the crowd streaming into the storefront gallery to gawk at the work of 20 local artists. In addition to Bower’s blue heron, the collection includes paintings of quizzical owls, fierce tigers, lions, giraffes, flowers, Bower’s blue heron and stunning photographs.
Storefronts Auburn, Shunpike, the City of Auburn, King County’s 4Culture and Auburn Valley Creative Artists worked together to make the gallery happen.
Green River Community College got from the City of Auburn four years ago the 8.97-acre Lea Hill Park property, on which it planned to build a new Trades and Industry building.
Auburn Gateway, a private school, abruptly closed its doors Tuesday night to the surprise of parents and students. The sudden closure comes in the wake of allegations that the school’s former director, Emily Gomes, mishandled funds, according to media reports.