Midway through one of the many speeches marking the opening of the Auburn Environmental Park boardwalk at the north end of Western Avenue last Thursday, some brash, noisemaking so-and-so stole the thunder.
The Auburn Valley Humane Society and the City of Auburn will join together to celebrate the groundbreaking and remodeling of an animal shelter.
Workers are finishing up Auburn’s biggest downtown building project in decades. And folks who’ve waited a long time to see the South Division Street Promenade done are preparing to cheer.
Like many people today, 21-year-old Rachell Bechtle of Auburn wanted to upgrade her skills, get into a better trade, land a good job.
City leaders weigh keeping or removing some red-light photo signs
On a lichen-covered fence post leaning wearily out of wetlands-once-farmlands, a bird preens its bright feathers in the light of an early spring afternoon.
Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report for the 2011 program year — now there’s a title to thrill and chill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A jury last month found Paramjit Singh Basra guilty of first-degree murder for the 2009 death of his wife, Harjinder, in Auburn.
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.
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.
Gidget makes the peremptory “woof” and shuffles up, Frisbee clamped in her canines, eyes locked on yours.
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.
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.
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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