Five-million six-hundred thousand dollars – that’s the total impact of state cuts on the Auburn School District budget for the current school year, according to district officials.
A lifetime member of VFW Post 1741, the American Legion and a member of the Intertribal Warriors Society, Bill Warren led the push for the design and construction of the Veterans Memorial in Veterans Park.
Largo Wales, former director of ACAP Child and Family services, is confident she has many things to contribute to the Auburn City Council.
Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a 49th person – 20-year-old Rebecca “Becky” Marrero – whose remains were discovered in a wooded ravine in west Auburn on Dec. 21.
The trial of a former Auburn Adventist Academy teacher charged with having sex with one of his female teenage students has been moved once again.
It is no coincidence that on the cusp of a campaign to convince businesses and developers what a great place downtown Auburn is that the City hired a big-time economic development manager.
Bill Peloza has announced that he will seek re-election to the Auburn City Council in November.
Deonte Lamont Rasul-Chiono jumped with both feet and the full force of his 275 pounds on the head of Lonnie Johnson as the 53-year-old homeless man lay unconscious, helpless and bleeding heavily from his head on the pavement in the 2200 block of I Street on Sept. 14.
A King County Superior Court jury last Thursday convicted a 32-year-old Seattle man of prostituting a 15-year-old runaway girl from Auburn and of raping and assaulting her.
Possible enhancements to Sound Transit’s system under the voter-passed ST2 package include increased parking, pedestrian sidewalks and bridges, bicycle commute options and transit facility enhancements.
For Craig Cook, it was a terrible sight.
A bent power pole, a horribly damaged car that had gone off the street and hit the pole, and a fire beginning to spread beneath the vehicle.
Auburn is looking at a more efficient way to provide animal control service.
Chainsaws last week finished the work that time, disease and rot started on the maple trees that for more than 50 years shaded the graves in Pioneer Cemetery.
A one-car collision on Auburn’s Lea Hill took the life of one person, injured another, and knocked out power to a large swath of Lea Hill and parts of north Auburn early Wednesday morning.
King County prosecutors last week charged a Des Moines man with one count of vehicular assault for striking and seriously injuring 66-year-old Kenneth Manion in a south end Auburn parking lot Jan. 23.
There may not be another surfboard like it anywhere but Auburn.
Apparently, when some drivers see the amber flashing lights in school zones telling them to slow to 20 mph “or when children are present,” they see red.
Jason Fiorito grew up working in the family’s construction business, so he knows a lot about building roads, driving bulldozers, backhoes and earth movers.
It’s no secret that in this economy, things are tough all over.
Even as more people move to Auburn, revenue lost to state mandates or initiatives has forced the City Council to make serious spending cuts.
Auburn is the site of many great events each year, including the Veterans Day Parade and the July 4 Kids Parade.
            
                            