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    Articles by Robert Whale
    Plans moving ahead to build Lakeland Hills fire station
    Plans moving ahead to build Lakeland Hills fire...
    By Robert Whale • September 8, 2008 7:07 pm

    Former U.S. Marshall Eric Robertson had never before been responsible for shepherding the construction of a new fire station.

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    Developer Jeff Oliphant
    Auburn agrees to sell land on tavern block...
    By Robert Whale • September 5, 2008 2:03 pm

    A significant downtown redevelopment project inched a critical step forward Tuesday night when the City of Auburn agreed to sell developer Jeff Oliphant and his company land on the dilapidated tavern block.

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    Police: Haugen ‘lied’ about ties to sign-gate
    Police: Haugen ‘lied’ about ties to sign-gate
    By Robert Whale • September 4, 2008 4:08 pm

    Auburn police say Virginia Haugen conceded at first she might have known who trespassed onto the Burlington Northern Santa Fe…

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    Isaiah Johnson
    Pioneering move at Cascade with Johnson taking the...
    By Robert Whale • September 2, 2008 1:38 am

    Education was the furthest thing from Isaiah Johnson’s mind when he started classes at Pacific Lutheran University in the fall of 1990. He meant to go into business like everybody else, make a mountain of money, live the good life.

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    Terri Herren takes the reins as principal at Auburn Mountainview High School. Classes officially start today.
    Auburn Mountainview Principal Herren has pride of a...
    By Robert Whale • September 2, 2008 1:37 am

    It was just after 1 p.m. Thursday, six days before the first day of school and the halls of Auburn Mountainview High School already were filled with milling students, teachers and parents.
    Many of the queries fell upon the shoulders of the new principal, Terri Herren, then preparing to hop a flight to watch her daughter, Katie, take on Stanford as a member of Navy’s soccer team. And yet there she was in the midst of the confusion, smiling, unharried, collected as a cucumber on the very cusp of the first day of her first year as principal of a school of 1,475 students.

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    The soon-to-open roundabout on Lea Hill is designed to efficiently handle a heavy volume of traffic in a counterclockwise direction and costs less to maintain.
    Auburn’s first roundabout to go with flow
    By Robert Whale • August 30, 2008 12:00 am

    If you want to use the new traffic roundabout at the intersection of Southeast 304th Street and 124th Avenue Southeast, here’s the simple rule: incoming drivers yield to what’s in there.

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    Prosecutor: Councilwoman obstructed a police officer Haugen pleads innocent to charge
    Prosecutor: Councilwoman obstructed a police officer Haugen pleads...
    By Robert Whale • August 29, 2008 1:27 pm

    Auburn City Councilwoman Virginia Haugen was arraigned in Auburn Municipal Court on Thursday morning, pleading not guilty to one count of obstructing an Auburn police officer who was investigating a case of trespassing onto Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad property on July 4.

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    The Coast Salish fiber-weaving exhibit now is on display at the White River Valley Museum.
    Museum honors Salish people’s art of weaving ‘Weaver’s...
    By Robert Whale • August 27, 2008 12:00 am

    Array

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    City expects to extend animal control program
    City expects to extend animal control program
    By Robert Whale • August 25, 2008 5:19 pm

    As Auburn’s Enhanced Animal Control Program approaches its first-year mark in September, it and King County Animal Control Officer Tom Harris are earning top marks from the public and city officials.

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    Woman pleads not quilty to animal cruelty charge
    Woman pleads not quilty to animal cruelty charge
    By Robert Whale • August 25, 2008 4:48 pm

    A 46-year-old Auburn woman on Aug. 20 pleaded not guilty to first-degree animal cruelty in connection with what King County…

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    Justin Anderson
    Call to arms: Families, supporters, politicians honor departing...
    By Robert Whale • August 22, 2008 1:54 pm

    Justin Anderson graduated from Mountainview High School in 2007, heart set on marrying his sweetheart and headed for college and a career in sports medicine.

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    Hospital breaks ground on parking garage
    Hospital breaks ground on parking garage
    By Robert Whale • August 18, 2008 5:43 pm

    Dirt for the groundbreaking had to be hauled in and dumped on concrete where the Auburn Police Station once was on North Division and First streets. But nobody doubted the importance of that mound of soil – it meant that Auburn Regional Medical Center’s parking garage is finally underway.

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    Sasha and Betsey Howe stop by to visit the Auburn Reporter office earlier this week. A story in the paper led to Sasha’s reunion with Howe
    Auburn marine’s best friend is home safe
    By Robert Whale • August 16, 2008 12:00 am

    When U.S. Marine Stuart Smith returns to Auburn from a 2-year-long deployment to Iraq in September, his best friend will there with her own special greeting.

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    Haugen charged with obstruction in incident concerning railroad sign
    Haugen charged with obstruction in incident concerning railroad...
    By Robert Whale • August 15, 2008 6:35 pm

    By ROBERT WHALE Staff writer The City of Tacoma’s prosecutor’s office has charged Auburn City Councilmember Virginia Haugen with obstructing…

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    The Tracht family from Auburn is planning to move to Uganda in February to help build orphanages. Father Tom is holding daughter Victoria
    Auburn family will leave it all behind to...
    By Robert Whale • August 15, 2008 2:28 pm

    There are two million orphans in the landlocked East African nation of Uganda, roughly 10 percent of the population. Many of them lost their parents to AIDS and water-borne diseases.

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    Everyone gets a choice of nutritional foods and snacks at the Auburn School District’s Child Nutrition Summer Lunch Program.
    Auburn program serves meals to 2,000 kids daily
    By Robert Whale • August 11, 2008 9:16 pm

    Janie Freeman and Jayme Ball queried 17-year-old Carmen as she approached the lunch-laden table at Cedar Lanes Park Thursday afternoon:
    How ’bout it, bud, watermelon or oranges? Watermelon. Turkey, or peanut butter and jelly? Peanut butter and jelly.

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    Auburn woman is charged in shooting death of neighbor’s puppy
    Auburn woman is charged in shooting death of...
    By Robert Whale • August 11, 2008 9:12 pm

    By ROBERT WHALE Staff writer The King County Prosecutor has charged an Auburn woman with first-degree animal cruelty for allegedly…

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    City opts to vacate alley behind Marvel Grocery; Haugen objects
    City opts to vacate alley behind Marvel Grocery;...
    By Robert Whale • August 8, 2008 2:20 pm

    The alley south of West Main between A Street Southwest and South Division Street provides access to the parking lots serving the Sunbreak Cafe and Marvel Grocery and is a convenient cut-through.

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    Pat Cavanaugh urged business owners to support the Business Improvement Area.
    Merchants speak for and against ADA, BIA
    By Robert Whale • August 8, 2008 2:19 pm

    Business owners upset with the lack of return on the money they are assessed each year to keep the Auburn Downtown Association going urged the Auburn City Council Monday to dissolve the Business Improvement Area rate-payers’ committee that underpins the ADA.

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    City endorses plan to end homelessness in King County by 2014
    City endorses plan to end homelessness in King...
    By Robert Whale • August 5, 2008 1:21 pm

    Homelessness is evolving, with fewer degrees separating people from ending up in this condition. An increasing number of people are…

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