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Articles by Robert Whale
Auburn’s Nick Konkler
Driven to find a cure: Family, friends join...
By Robert Whale • March 21, 2012 8:32 pm

Nick Konkler is a young man of few words, a steady fire. Until somebody mentions tires, camshafts, cars. Then watch the eyes flash, the step quicken, the confidence leap. Must be some sort of high-octane fuel additive in those words.

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Signs notify parents that Auburn's Gateway School has closed.
Auburn Gateway school suddenly closes doors, director resigns
By Robert Whale • March 15, 2012 3:49 pm

Auburn Gateway, a private school operating out of Messiah Lutheran Church in Auburn, abruptly closed its doors March 6, surprising parents and students alike.
The sudden closure followed hard upon allegations that the school’s former director, Emily Gomes, had mishandled funds, media reports say.
Gomes resigned the following Friday, and the school canceled classes indefinitely.

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Marie Lyndemere
Auburn’s temporary gallery displays artists’ works
By Robert Whale • March 15, 2012 3:45 pm

Water rippling gently about her stick legs, head topped by a distinct tuft of dark feathers, the heron waits with stony patience and unmoving eye the faintest flicker in the bank-hugging grass, the splash midstream.
This particular bird is actually Bonney Lake artist Mary Ellen Bowers’s clever mosaic of Starbucks cards, hung on the east wall of the art gallery at 113 East Main Street.
Bowers was there Tuesday night for the gallery’s grand opening, delighted to be swallowed up by the crowd streaming into the storefront gallery to gawk at the work of 20 local artists. In addition to Bower’s blue heron, the collection includes paintings of quizzical owls, fierce tigers, lions, giraffes, flowers, Bower’s blue heron and stunning photographs.
Storefronts Auburn, Shunpike, the City of Auburn, King County’s 4Culture and Auburn Valley Creative Artists worked together to make the gallery happen.

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Auburn received 7.15 acres of college-owned land
Auburn preps for park; new college building on...
By Robert Whale • March 14, 2012 7:36 pm

Green River Community College got from the City of Auburn four years ago the 8.97-acre Lea Hill Park property, on which it planned to build a new Trades and Industry building.

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Auburn Gateway
Auburn private school closes; director resigns, accused of...
By Robert Whale • March 7, 2012 8:16 pm

Auburn Gateway, a private school, abruptly closed its doors Tuesday night to the surprise of parents and students. The sudden closure comes in the wake of allegations that the school’s former director, Emily Gomes, mishandled funds, according to media reports.

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Auburn City Council approves program to help small businesses
Auburn City Council approves program to help small...
By Robert Whale • March 7, 2012 6:53 pm

It’s about helping small businesses expand, find fresh digs inside Auburn, and proliferate.
City Councilmembers recently approved the Auburn Small Business Development Assistance program, calling it the next step in local efforts to support business development, recruitment and retention.
In effect until Dec. 31, 2013, the program works by cutting the cost of certain permits and approvals and applying different fee rates, computed at 50-percent of what they usually are.

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Auburn man guilty of strangling wife awaits sentencing
Auburn man guilty of strangling wife awaits sentencing
By Robert Whale • March 7, 2012 5:18 pm

A jury last month found Paramjit Singh Basra guilty of first-degree murder for the 2009 death of his wife, Harjinder, in Auburn.

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Judge touts achievements of Auburn court
Judge touts achievements of Auburn court
By Robert Whale • March 7, 2012 5:15 pm

It’s easy enough to pass the Auburn Justice Center every day without a thought for what a hive of activity the Municipal Court inside really is.

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Neighbors’ plea pushes big rigs off residential curb in Auburn
Neighbors’ plea pushes big rigs off residential curb...
By Robert Whale • March 7, 2012 4:42 pm

For Antonetta Fioretti and her neighbors, life on G Street Southeast has been sweet. Until, that is, the first commercial truck parked about three weeks ago on the quiet residential street, to be followed shortly thereafter by two of its monster cousins.

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Dog in a canoe: The White River Valley Museum invites the public to enter the sentimental world of animals and their people during the Victorian era with the photographic exhibit
Auburn museum explores historic bond between animals and...
By Robert Whale • March 7, 2012 4:39 pm

Gidget makes the peremptory “woof” and shuffles up, Frisbee clamped in her canines, eyes locked on yours.

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Margaret Hansen
Can’t cheat love: scammers learn lesson; Friends near...
By Robert Whale • February 29, 2012 7:10 pm

The email that went out at 8:06 a.m., Feb. 12 let Margaret Hansen’s friends, business contacts, cousins know she had been mugged in London, had no money and the police wouldn’t help her.

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The $110 million Auburn High School Construction Bond measure finished 4.8 percentage points under the needed mark for passage in the special election.
Optimistic Auburn school leaders look to try bond...
By Robert Whale • February 29, 2012 6:38 pm

As most people know by now, voters in the Auburn School District approved the district’s four-year maintenance and operations levy by a comfortable majority in the Feb. 14 special election.

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City leaders and some of its funding partners on the M Street project participate in Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony.
Officials hail M Street project; $22.2M undertaking to...
By Robert Whale • February 29, 2012 6:03 pm

On a chilly Tuesday afternoon, 10 years from its first warm twinkling in an engineer’s eye, after countless meetings between Auburn, various state and federal agencies and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, the $22.5 million M Street Southeast grade-separation project between 4th and 6th streets southeast took its first step.

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Mayor Pete Lewis is encouraged by Auburn's progress despite a slow-rebounding economy.
Mayor Lewis: Auburn taking many steps in recovery
By Robert Whale • February 22, 2012 8:25 pm

People out of work, a blue economy, the bottom’s about out of the tub. But in the midst of “The Great Recession,” says Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis, the city is poised at the block for that much-talked-about recovery, muscles straining, ready to bust out.

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Bond proposed to improve Auburn roads
Bond proposed to improve Auburn roads
By Robert Whale • February 22, 2012 8:12 pm

It would bond roughly $59 million to repair 31 miles of aging commuter and freight corridors, and make improvements at key intersections throughout Auburn.

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Auburn man appeals attempted murder conviction
Auburn man appeals attempted murder conviction
By Robert Whale • February 22, 2012 8:10 pm

An Auburn man is appealing the first-degree attempted murder conviction that could lock him in prison for more than 24 years.

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Auburn lost 215 trees of 33 varieties inside City parks from the nasty January storm.
Costly winter storm for Auburn: $274,213.39, so far
By Robert Whale • February 22, 2012 6:45 pm

Leaders at least have a rough idea now about what the late January ice storm actually cost the City of Auburn in dollars and cents.

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City’s red-light photo enforcement running in the red – and working
City’s red-light photo enforcement running in the red...
By Robert Whale • February 16, 2012 6:00 pm

Police have been issuing fewer citations to drivers caught by the lidless eyes of the red-light photo enforcement cameras.

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The all-school drive has been a big boost to the food bank.
Auburn All-School Food Drive coming up
By Robert Whale • February 15, 2012 6:04 pm

Psstt, pass it along. Word is that Auburn School District might be the only one in the country that does an all-school food drive to benefit a local food bank.

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Voters are deciding on a modernization and reconstruction bond will fund critical improvements at Auburn High School while keeping school taxes level. Early returns show the measure was failing.
Levy passing, Auburn High School construction bond failing...
By Robert Whale • February 15, 2012 1:48 am

Voters said yes Tuesday night to the Auburn School District’s four-year educational programs levy, but the Auburn High School construction bond failed to pick up enough steam to get it over the hump known as the 60-percent supermajority.

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