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City opts to vacate alley behind Marvel Grocery; Haugen objects

The alley south of West Main between A Street Southwest and South Division Street provides access to the…

Pat Cavanaugh urged business owners to support the Business Improvement Area.

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Merchants speak for and against ADA, BIA

Business owners upset with the lack of return on the money they are assessed each year to keep…

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City endorses plan to end homelessness in King County by 2014

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

Auburn native Dayla Walker gets a victory kiss from her daughter Haley

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Walker, Swepston sing winning tunes in Auburn On Stage! finals

Kids tossed colored balls back and forth, a man grilled wienies on a barbecue and fun reigned at…

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Auburn city leaders, developer agree on land swap tied to downtown redevelopment

Auburn officials signed their name to the purchase and sales agreement July 7, and last week Stratford Company…

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Tacoma prosecutor’s office considers charges against Auburn City Councilmember Haugen

The City of Tacoma’s prosecutor’s office was expected to decide by the end of the week whether to…

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Auburn police target car thefts

It is no secret that auto theft, although down in the Seattle metro area since 2005, remains a…

The Auburn Avenue Theater has been without its marquee since July 10

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Workers remove Auburn’s damaged ‘Ave’ marquee

People passing by the Auburn Avenue Theater in recent days might have looked up and noticed something fairly…

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Report: Auburn police are containing fireworks problems

Numbers are in on the city’s 2008 fireworks season and things are looking up.

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‘They want to squeeze me out’

Sunbreak Cafe owner Bruce Alverson has put his building and land up for sale.

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King County Boys and Girls Club looks to expand

The Boys and Girls Club of King County signed a tentative lease with the City of Auburn for…

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Council member implicated in sign flap on railroad trestle

The plastic sign hung briefly from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad trestle over Auburn Way South on…

Elizabeth Foday-Dodge

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Auburn woman Foday-Dodge flees war-torn Liberia to start new life, business

Graceful hands moved back and forth over Rosaline Fornah’s head, over and around and up and down, knotting,…

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Puyallup man pleads innocent to second-degree assault in golf club attack

A Puyallup man pleaded not guilty Tuesday, July 29 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent…

Tom Askman applies a stroke of fresh paint to a dragonfly that was etched into the sidewalk along West Main Street.

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Artists grace Auburn sidewalks with ants and dragonflies

Under the watchful, compound eyes of West Main Street’s colorful dragonfly sculptures, the Spokane husband and wife artist…

Dell Gibson

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Merchants fed up with business assessment

For decades Auburn’s Downtown Association has promoted businesses and services, hung banners above Main Street, issued parking permits…

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Cities get 2-year extension on county jail contract

Local cities will have two more years to house their misdemeanor offenders in King County jails owing to…

Bruce Alverson says the city’s recent actions might force him out of business.

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Auburn’s Sunbreak Cafe suffers heartbreak: Land transfer looms

Arnie and Pauline Hall tucked into a late lunch Wednesday at the Sunbreak Cafe, a downtown restaurant they…

Joseph Rush Sr. and Joseph Jr.

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Auburn emergency workers enjoy tame Fourth

Every year there’s a little less boom and flash, sparkle and burn in Auburn’s Fourth of July. Between…

Sisters Tristyn Smith

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So far, complaints down as city braces for the July Fourth bang

Auburn officials recently told members of the Muckleshoot Tribe that the city would not pursue a total ban…