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Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis officially filed for re-election Monday. Lewis is seeking a third term in office.

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Three file to unseat Mayor Pete Lewis

Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis filed for re-election to his third term Monday as filing week for public office…

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Olympic opens arms to culture

Dancers wheeled by in a fluid blur of colors and feathers to chanting and singing so moving it…

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Low-income housing units to get overhaul

The King County Housing Authority is planning a $12.5 million renovation of the 60-unit, Green River Homes along…

Largo Wales

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ACAP struggles with financial setback, seeks additional help

ACAP Child and Family Services needs help. United Way has informed ACAP’s administration and its board of directors…

Auburn High School senior Andrew Bonwell enjoyed football

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Community mourns tragic loss of Auburn High student, athlete

Andrew Bonwell was a gregarious boy, quick with a smile, a boy who loved football, girls and cars,…

Cancer survivor Dick Richards takes in the festivities.

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Relay for Life draws emotions, and a big crowd

When the mass of purple-shirted cancer survivors made that initial lap around Auburn Memorial Stadium track Friday night,…

Construction workers prepare to hoist the final steel beam to the three-story Auburn Professional Plaza downtown. Atop the beam is a small evergreen

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Last steel beam raised for the emerging downtown plaza

Watched carefully by operator Dustin Spencer, a grinning Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis pulled the levers on the crane…

Suzanne Waltman sifts through photos of her son

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Mother copes with tragic loss of her son

Ever the joker, 29-year-old Robert Zuchowski teased his mother for being short, liked popping out of unexpected places…

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Returning teachers to classroom is district’s top priority in wake of cuts

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A smiling Michael Hursh

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Last steel beam raised for the emerging downtown plaza

Watched carefully by operator Dustin Spencer, a grinning Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis pulled the levers on the crane…

Larry Lloyd

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Volunteer wave helps tidy up the place in Clean Sweep

Ah, Saturday, a chance to rise late, relax in your robe, sip coffee, pore over the sports section.…

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Battle continues over supportive housing project

Faith Richie, executive director of Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation, had hoped by 2010 to have the first…

Healthy and a proud grandmother at 81

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Breast cancer survivor has seen advances, but no cure during her lifetime

Helen Tyler was a 33-year-old wife and mother of two small children, living in the Arizona countryside that…

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Health and human service agencies brace for county funding cuts

Auburn Youth Resources will take some hits to its programs, but AYR director Jim Blanchard is confident it…

J.D. Drollinger

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Relay for Life returns to Auburn Memorial Stadium

This disease visits untold sufferings on the afflicted and on loved ones — and one in three people…

Jeremiah Arreola pulls down blackberry bushes at Auburn Environmental Park as part of the '08 Clean Sweep.

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Auburn volunteers gear up for major cleanup

The City of Auburn is looking for volunteers eager to tackle jobs from pruning to trash pick up…

The proposed promenade as seen from the west side of Division between West Main Street and 2nd Street Southeast.

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Firm needed for design, engineering work on promenade

Auburn’s 2001 downtown development plan suggested a pedestrian thoroughfare or promenade, starting at the edge of City Hall…

Lillie Brinker brings experience and good ideas to the soon-to-open Auburn Farmers Market.

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True to her roots, Brinker helps plant the seeds to local farmers market

Mississippi-born Lillie Brinker is the marketing manager for the Auburn Farmers Market, which opens for the first time…

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City lays off 24 employees

Caught in the pincers of an economic downtown, the City of Auburn layed off 24 of its employees…

A full house assembled at Monday’s school board meeting to voice their concerns and support their programs in the wake of a budget shortfall.

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School district makes painful budget cuts

Parents, teachers and students walked to the microphone one by one Monday evening in an organized attempt to…