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Auburn High School senior Andrew Bonwell enjoyed football
Community mourns tragic loss of Auburn High student,...
By Robert Whale • May 26, 2009 2:22 pm

Andrew Bonwell was a gregarious boy, quick with a smile, a boy who loved football, girls and cars, not necessarily…

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Cancer survivor Dick Richards takes in the festivities.
Relay for Life draws emotions, and a big...
By Robert Whale • May 20, 2009 4:56 pm

When the mass of purple-shirted cancer survivors made that initial lap around Auburn Memorial Stadium track Friday night, kicking off…

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Construction workers prepare to hoist the final steel beam to the three-story Auburn Professional Plaza downtown. Atop the beam is a small evergreen
Last steel beam raised for the emerging downtown...
By Robert Whale • May 20, 2009 4:53 pm

Watched carefully by operator Dustin Spencer, a grinning Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis pulled the levers on the crane May 14…

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Suzanne Waltman sifts through photos of her son
Mother copes with tragic loss of her son
By Robert Whale • May 20, 2009 4:49 pm

Ever the joker, 29-year-old Robert Zuchowski teased his mother for being short, liked popping out of unexpected places to startle…

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Returning teachers to classroom is district’s top priority in wake of cuts
Returning teachers to classroom is district’s top priority...
By Robert Whale • May 14, 2009 4:00 pm

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A smiling Michael Hursh
Last steel beam raised for the emerging downtown...
By Robert Whale • May 14, 2009 5:52 pm

Watched carefully by operator Dustin Spencer, a grinning Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis pulled the levers on the crane Thursday afternoon…

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Larry Lloyd
Volunteer wave helps tidy up the place in...
By Robert Whale • May 13, 2009 7:28 pm

Ah, Saturday, a chance to rise late, relax in your robe, sip coffee, pore over the sports section. But for…

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Battle continues over supportive housing project
Battle continues over supportive housing project
By Robert Whale • May 13, 2009 7:24 pm

Faith Richie, executive director of Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation, had hoped by 2010 to have the first local homeless…

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Healthy and a proud grandmother at 81
Breast cancer survivor has seen advances, but no...
By Robert Whale • May 13, 2009 7:21 pm

Helen Tyler was a 33-year-old wife and mother of two small children, living in the Arizona countryside that day in…

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Health and human service agencies brace for county funding cuts
Health and human service agencies brace for county...
By Robert Whale • May 6, 2009 9:07 pm

Auburn Youth Resources will take some hits to its programs, but AYR director Jim Blanchard is confident it will survive….

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J.D. Drollinger
Relay for Life returns to Auburn Memorial Stadium
By Robert Whale • May 6, 2009 8:58 pm

This disease visits untold sufferings on the afflicted and on loved ones — and one in three people will be…

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Jeremiah Arreola pulls down blackberry bushes at Auburn Environmental Park as part of the '08 Clean Sweep.
Auburn volunteers gear up for major cleanup
By Robert Whale • May 4, 2009 7:15 pm

The City of Auburn is looking for volunteers eager to tackle jobs from pruning to trash pick up to painting…

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The proposed promenade as seen from the west side of Division between West Main Street and 2nd Street Southeast.
Firm needed for design, engineering work on promenade
By Robert Whale • April 29, 2009 10:38 pm

Auburn’s 2001 downtown development plan suggested a pedestrian thoroughfare or promenade, starting at the edge of City Hall Plaza, extending…

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Lillie Brinker brings experience and good ideas to the soon-to-open Auburn Farmers Market.
True to her roots, Brinker helps plant the...
By Robert Whale • April 29, 2009 10:30 pm

Mississippi-born Lillie Brinker is the marketing manager for the Auburn Farmers Market, which opens for the first time June 14…

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City lays off 24 employees
City lays off 24 employees
By Robert Whale • April 29, 2009 10:16 pm

Caught in the pincers of an economic downtown, the City of Auburn layed off 24 of its employees Tuesday. Mayor…

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A full house assembled at Monday’s school board meeting to voice their concerns and support their programs in the wake of a budget shortfall.
School district makes painful budget cuts
By Robert Whale • April 29, 2009 10:14 pm

Parents, teachers and students walked to the microphone one by one Monday evening in an organized attempt to persuade the…

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Prosecutors mulling charges in Auburn homicide
Prosecutors mulling charges in Auburn homicide
By Robert Whale • April 28, 2009 4:57 pm

King County prosecutors will wait to decide whether to charge a 19-year-old Lake Tapps man with first-degree murder in connection…

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Dick Brugger helped establish and develop Auburn Youth Resources into an important community-based counseling
Fittingly, it’s called The Brugger Building
By Robert Whale • April 22, 2009 8:30 pm

Today the building at 816 F Street serves as the Auburn Youth Resources’ mental health counseling center. But over the…

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Construction crews go to work
Steel goes up as plaza goes vertical
By Robert Whale • April 22, 2009 7:25 pm

Structural steel arrived on the site of the future Auburn Professional Plaza east of City Hall Monday and by Tuesday…

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Bids are in, but will project be built?
Bids are in, but will project be built?
By Robert Whale • April 22, 2009 7:23 pm

Auburn’s City Clerk on April 16 opened and read 36 bids submitted by contractors vying for some or all of…

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