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Cash-strapped city braces for layoffs

The City of Auburn this week began its second round of layoffs in 2009.

Receptionist Amber Doscher is one of the first faces people see at the new Valley Womens Health Care clinic in the Auburn Professional Plaza building.

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Valley Women’s Health Care becomes first tenant of new plaza building

Doctors and staff at Valley Women’s Health Care swear that Mother Goose actually had their offices at 201…

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County, city OK shuttle service

King County and the City of Auburn have signed an agreement to provide a community transit shuttle service…

Auburn City Councilmember Nancy Backus joins others in signing a farewell poster for outgoing City Councilmember Gene Cerino.

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Send-off for Cerino: Councilmember praised for his longtime service

Friends and colleagues gathered in the lobby of City Hall to say a goodbye of sorts to Gene…

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City to operate with ‘preservation budget’

A phrase like “hold-the-line budget” no longer captures how rough things are out there.

Future firefighter Alycia Simonds

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Station answers the call: VRFA opens new post in south Auburn

Residents of Lakeland Hills, Kersey Way and Hidden Valley have been underserved with fire, rescue and emergency medical…

For Auburn Police Officer Stan Sedillo

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Police cast electronic eyes: License plate reader system provides flexibility, efficiency

It is a labor-saving device, a force-multiplier for police officers like Stan Sedillo as they patrol Auburn’s streets.

Rick Hopkins

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Levee patrols under way

City of Auburn levee patrols started on Monday morning as city personnel began familiarizing themselves with the King…

A banner in support of the Auburn police force graces the front of the Auburn Justice Center this week. The banner

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Sign of support: Businessman creates banner to honor police

Mike Harbin Sr. has close friends on the Auburn Police Department, so the senseless and brutal killings of…

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Haugen unassigned to committees

Deciding subcommittee assignments for Auburn City Council members is usually a routine, end-of-the-year matter.

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City looking for a new planning director

The City of Auburn will start the search for a new director of planning and community development after…

The barrier-free playground at Les Gove Park while span 10

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Park’s ‘barrier-free playground’ project coming together

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When completed by June

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Community awaits state-of-the-art cancer center

As Drs. John Keech and Dustan Osborn strolled through the completed, empty shell of the Auburn Cancer Center…

Terrence Thompson

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GRCC students pursue lofty goals with reward of scholarships

Jared Schiff and Terrence Thompson are big-brained guys crazy about math and physics and headed for careers as…

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City lists priorities for upcoming session

A new Auburn Amtrak stop and funding for the Lake Tapps Parkway project will be among the City…

An emotional Bob Williams looks back on his life and contemplates his uncertain future. Williams

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Given a year to live, Auburn man volunteers time to help others

Bob Williams was at the north Auburn TOP Foods last Friday to buy Thanksgiving fixings for himself and…

Yinka Taylor

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Community Big Give comes up big for area families

Brenda Kelek was walking by the North Auburn TOP Foods about 9 a.m. Saturday morning when she saw…

The Auburn Chiropractic Clinic suffered damage on Friday morning after a man suffering a medical emergency drove his pickup truck into the southwest corner of the building on Auburn Way South.

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Man suffering chest pains drives truck into chiropractic clinic

A 45-year-old Enumclaw man suffering from chest pains drove his full-size, 4x4 Dodge pickup truck into the southwest…

The City of Auburn is proposing to add to the Les Gove Park campus

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City taking steps to finance community center

Auburn City Council members on Monday gave Mayor Pete Lewis the go-ahead to apply for a Housing and…

Shawnacee Frazier

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Volunteers put in long hours, hard work to prepare for possible flooding

Just after 1 p.m., a handful of men and women dropped exhausted onto a patch of lawn beside…