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Tracy Lasher looks to make an impact as a math intervention specialist at Rainier Middle School. Lasher uses Potato Heads characters as a fun way to help motivate her students.
Back to school: Taters, totals all add up...
By Robert Whale • September 1, 2010 9:12 pm

The plethora of sharply-dressed Potato Heads on a shelf in Tracy Lasher’s Rainier Middle School classroom is the first clue that a different sort of math teacher rules this roost.

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Countdown starts on Auburn’s abandoned downtown buildings
Countdown starts on Auburn’s abandoned downtown buildings
By Robert Whale • August 25, 2010 9:17 pm

The City’s demolition contractor for the Marvel and Crites-Huff buildings got its notice to start on the job Monday.

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WSU students get the call to bring ideas, develop Auburn park
WSU students get the call to bring ideas,...
By Robert Whale • August 25, 2010 9:15 pm

Rich Wagner hopes to scoop up stormwater management ideas that will not only cut costs for the City and developers, but also attract green businesses to the Auburn Environmental Park District.

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Downtown Auburn leaders take AIM at problems
Downtown Auburn leaders take AIM at problems
By Robert Whale • August 25, 2010 9:00 pm

Glenn Jenkins has big plans for the volunteer organization of merchants and business owners he’s putting together.

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Faith Richie
Auburn’s Valley Cities prepares national search to find...
By Robert Whale • August 23, 2010 3:37 pm

Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation on Monday announced the resignation of Faith Richie as its chief executive officer.

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Grant will alllow Auburn to complete Fenster levee setback project
Grant will alllow Auburn to complete Fenster levee...
By Robert Whale • August 18, 2010 9:06 pm

Thanks to a grant from the King Conservation District, the City of Auburn has money in hand to complete the second and final phase of the Fenster levee setback project.

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Glenn Jenkins
Sex offenders cause a stir in downtown Auburn
By Robert Whale • August 18, 2010 9:05 pm

Stocky, balding with short gray hair, using words too salty for a family newspaper, Glenn Jenkins looks and sounds like what he is — a man plum out of patience.

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The City of Auburn is showing its support for the all-stars.
Auburn Avenue Theater to show Little League World...
By Robert Whale • August 17, 2010 4:06 pm

Plays, musical and comedy acts, maybe some films — those were the sorts of the things City leaders thought about when they decided to lease the Auburn Avenue Theater in 2007.

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Harold Crisman plays a tune at Zola’s. The café has become a popular local spot for music.
Zola’s strikes a chord with Auburn-area talent
By Robert Whale • August 12, 2010 7:00 pm

Looking laid back in a white T-shirt, dark jeans and felt cap, Harold Crisman picks up his guitar, scans the song list one last time and launches into his night of music.

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The Valley Regional Fire Authority board of directors recently broke ground on the new Lea Hill Fire Station 34. From left
VRFA breaks ground on Lea Hill Station 34
By Robert Whale • August 11, 2010 9:00 pm

Under the shadow of the 105-foot-high ladder on the fire truck, members of the Valley Regional Fire Authority Board of Governance broke out the shovels and turned dirt Aug. 4 on the new $2.9 million Lea Hill Fire Station 34.

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Residents vacate tattered Auburn complex; no word from owner
Residents vacate tattered Auburn complex; no word from...
By Robert Whale • August 11, 2010 8:55 pm

Where families gathered and children played, sunlight steals over empty rooms and silent common areas.
As of Aug. 7, all 155 to 165 residents of the two troubled Auburn Pines Apartment complexes at 505 and 515 North Division Street had left. Last out was the manager.

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The Stingrays have scheduled an Aug. 22 fundraiser to benefit their program and local schools.
Auburn’s Stingrays try to kick up support for...
By Robert Whale • August 4, 2010 7:12 pm

A girls team in the Auburn Youth Soccer Association needs away jerseys, warmups and soccer bags.

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The new Super Walmart is beginning to take shape in Auburn.
Super Walmart coming to Auburn, next to the...
By Robert Whale • August 4, 2010 6:23 pm

Work continues on the new 208,000-square-foot Full-Service Walmart store north of the Regal Cinemas Theatres.

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Auburn Environmental Park gets a boost
Auburn Environmental Park gets a boost
By Robert Whale • August 4, 2010 6:06 pm

With its recent 29-acre purchase from the Auburn Land Company of Las Vegas, Nev., the City of Auburn has all the land it needs to complete the first phase of the Auburn Environmental Park.

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Auburn Library finds temporary home during renovation
Auburn Library finds temporary home during renovation
By Robert Whale • July 28, 2010 7:31 pm

The King County Library System has found a temporary site to serve patrons when it closes the popular Auburn Library for a year of renovations in 2011.

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The abandoned Charlie Wong building is one of three structures that could be demolished in September
Demolition looms for downtown Auburn buildings
By Robert Whale • July 28, 2010 7:27 pm

The former Marvel Food & Deli Building at West Main Street soon will fall to make way for a major downtown renewal project.

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The White River Buddhist Temple teachers lead a dance during last weekend’s Bon Odori Festival.
Auburn shares the joy of O-Bon spirit
By Robert Whale • July 28, 2010 7:10 pm

Throughout the sizzling afternoon, music filled the air and drums banged out a mesmerizing beat – boom boom boom, whack! boom-boom, boom-boom, whack!

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Nia Hokulani Cortez points at her mom as she preforms a Tahitian dance at the Bon Odori Festival last year.
Auburn, White River Buddhist Temple to celebrate O-Bon...
By Robert Whale • July 21, 2010 8:00 pm

O-Bon is a time for Buddhists to reflect on the dedicated lives of departed ancestors who made the lives of living people possible.

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Pat Surr
Auburn’s historic Olson Farm opens summer camp for...
By Robert Whale • July 21, 2010 7:54 pm

Today’s city folk often lose the vital knowledge of where food comes from, of farming, and the connection to the land.

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Burundi natives Augustine Ndayisenga and Dosio Baragenya found a few tools to help them turn the soil on the 10-acre Auburn farm leased for them.
Thievery brings labor to a halt for immigrant...
By Robert Whale • July 14, 2010 9:21 pm

Mohamed Rago stared at the fertile fields with their rich soil and latent promise to feed his wife and five children and wished he were out there.

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