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Prosecutors mulling charges in Auburn homicide

King County prosecutors will wait to decide whether to charge a 19-year-old Lake Tapps man with first-degree murder…

Dick Brugger helped establish and develop Auburn Youth Resources into an important community-based counseling

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Fittingly, it’s called The Brugger Building

Today the building at 816 F Street serves as the Auburn Youth Resources’ mental health counseling center. But…

Construction crews go to work

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Steel goes up as plaza goes vertical

Structural steel arrived on the site of the future Auburn Professional Plaza east of City Hall Monday and…

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Bids are in, but will project be built?

Auburn’s City Clerk on April 16 opened and read 36 bids submitted by contractors vying for some or…

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City mulls restrictions on truck corridors

Barring a welcome but unlikely infusion of money, the City’s Public Works Department expects to recommend this fall…

Angelique Moser cultivates her 10-by-20-foot plot in the Auburn Community Garden

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Community tills the soil at new garden

Angelique Moser studied the page on which she’d scribbled the plan for her plot at Auburn Community Garden.…

The city is looking at ways to treat Auburn's worn truck routes

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City considers options to address worn truck corridors

When the state Legislature eliminated the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax (MVET) in 2000 in response to a voter…

Some commuters have found value in using the HOT lanes along a nine-mile stretch of the Valley Freeway.

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8-month report: Valley Freeway’s pilot HOT lanes get mixed reviews

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Backus to run for a third term on City Council

Nancy Backus has announced that she will run for re-election to the Auburn City Council. Backus has served…

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City to open bids for community center

The City of Auburn will open bids on the proposed Auburn Community Center and gymnasium at Les Gove…

The historical Blomeen House on B Street Northeast is located in the heart of an evolving neighborhood north of City Hall and the Auburn Regional Medical Center.

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Keep neighborhood the same, residents urge

Change is coming to the neighborhood north of Auburn Regional Medical Center. Last week, city officials and police…

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Cerino to run for another term on City Council

Gene Cerino will seek his third consecutive term on the Auburn City Council this fall. “After due deliberation,…

Bridget Both occupies a swing at Bothell Park. The new park

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Family, friends officially welcome Bothell Park

John Bothell only wished his mother could have been there Wednesday morning to see it happen. Still, it…

Rainier Christian School officials hope to expand services they offer at the 7.9-acre site at 20 49th St. NE

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Rezoning move might reshape school’s future

Rainier Christian School officials hope at some future date to expand the services they offer at the 7.9-acre…

The Corps’ Mark Ohlstrom

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Corps: Residents should prepare for possible flood

The Green River could flood next rainy season, so people should have a plan to deal with it.…

The Stratford Group has proposed redeveloping the block south of City Hall. Its plans call for razing the buildings and replacing them with a high-density residential

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Deadline passes for downtown redeveloper

Wednesday was an important day for downtown redevelopment. By a previous agreement, the Stratford Group, a real estate…

Shannen Morgan along with fellow pitcher Nicole Kelso will look to help a young Auburn fastpitch squad take the next step in its maturation and earn a trip to the state tourney.

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PREP PREVIEW: Trojans gunning for a return to state in softball

As evidenced by a 3-2 win over Auburn Riverside this past Tuesday, the Auburn Trojans are well removed…

The Green River Community College campus soon will feature a three-story

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GRCC to usher in new state-of-the-art facility

Green River Community College’s Human Sciences, Social Sciences and Business and Industry buildings date to the mid-1960s. Now…

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled a public meeting to discuss the pubic safety and integrity of the abutment to Howard Hanson Dam. The dam appears on the left

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Howard Hanson Dam, Green River safety meeting set for Tuesday

A public meeting to provide information about flood safety and developments related to the Howard Hanson Dam operations…

A record number of riders continues to take advantage of the service at Auburn Transit Station

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Transit station improvements on the way, despite economy

Voters approved Sound Transit’s $17.8 billion Sound Transit 2 package on Nov. 4, 2008. Planners there expect the…