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Articles by Robert Whale
Worn levees along Green River to be repaired
Worn levees along Green River to be repaired
By Robert Whale • June 19, 2008 4:59 pm

The 40-plus-year-old Dykstra and Galli levees along the west bank of the Green River in northeast Auburn are showing their…

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Auburn defuses fireworks ban — for now
Auburn defuses fireworks ban — for now
By Robert Whale • June 18, 2008 2:00 pm

The City of Auburn will not enact a fireworks ban on June 16 after all.
As the result of a meeting Thursday with tribal representatives, city officials agreed they would wait one more year in order to judge steps the tribe pledged to take at that meeting to address citizen concerns, particularly those stemming from noise generated by the reservation’s fireworks discharge area north of the Muckleshoot Casino.

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Auburn cops collide at downtown intersection
Auburn cops collide at downtown intersection
By Robert Whale • June 18, 2008 3:50 pm

Two Auburn police cars, one with lights flashing and siren keening, collided at the intersection of East Main and A Street Southeast Monday evening while responding to an emergency call at nearby Auburn Regional Medical Center.

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Auburn launches adopt-a-road program
Auburn launches adopt-a-road program
By Robert Whale • June 18, 2008 2:04 pm

Many streets within the City of Auburn could use litter pick up and a little tender loving care. On Monday the Auburn City Council approved two programs that will match streets with the people who love them.

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Auburn’s Gladys Paulus
84-year-old Auburn woman crowned Pioneer Queen of Good...
By Robert Whale • June 16, 2008 5:52 pm

To the hoots, claps and wild cheers of friends and supporters, 84-year-old Gladys Paulus was crowned Pioneer Queen of Auburn Good Ol’ Days during the 19th annual contest at the Auburn Senior Activity Center.

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The Pioneer Queen court includes
Paulus takes top tiara in Pioneer Queen contest
By Robert Whale • June 13, 2008 6:25 pm

To the hoots, claps and wild cheers of friends and supporters, 84-year-old Gladys Paulus was crowned Pioneer Queen of Auburn…

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Officials try to get tougher on graffiti
Officials try to get tougher on graffiti
By Robert Whale • June 13, 2008 1:35 pm

Be it artistic, gang related or just plain nasty, graffiti is fast becoming a costly pain, an eyesore and a gross blight throughout the City of Auburn.

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Linda Cowan greets Myrna Warwick at her retirement party as outgoing Auburn School District superintendent. Warwick
School’s finally out for Auburn superintendent
By Robert Whale • June 9, 2008 5:36 pm

What happened in the Auburn School District board room Thursday officially was “a retirement party,” a term usually associated with long, slow decline. And with so many colleagues and friends milling about swapping stories, it certainly looked like such an event.
But when Linda Cowan is the retiree, the term “retirement” needs amplification – for the district’s high-energy superintendent would be the last person to take that storied rocking chair and gather dust.

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Auburn likely to ban fireworks starting in ’09
Auburn likely to ban fireworks starting in ’09
By Robert Whale • June 6, 2008 2:09 pm

July 4, 2008 is expected to be the last Independence Day people can set off any kind of fireworks other than sparklers in the city of Auburn without being busted.
City Council members are likely to adopt an ordinance at their June 16 meeting that would ban fireworks. The ban would go into effect June 17, 2009.

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Auburn
South King County cities waiting on Kent for...
By Robert Whale • June 6, 2008 2:09 pm

By 2012 King County will no longer accept misdemeanor inmates, such as drunken drivers, bad check passers, small-bore drug users, petty thieves and prostitutes from the 36 cities that contract with it for jail services.
Faced with that looming deadline, the South King County cities of Auburn, Des Moines, Federal Way, Renton and Tukwila hope to build a new regional jail within the next four years to house misdemeanor inmates.

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Nathan Rice
No holds bard: Auburn Regional Theater struts Shakespeare...
By Robert Whale • June 2, 2008 6:37 pm

Many a present and former college student has sweated Shakespeare and lived to tell the tale.
But what if all the bard’s plays had been neatly delivered to them in a snappy, hour-and-a-half package with zingy, side-splitting dialogue?
Well, let these young scholars look no more, for Auburn Regional Theater’s comedic presentation of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” is what they have been looking for.

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B.G.
Petpalooza: Auburn throws a big party for pets,...
By Robert Whale • June 2, 2008 6:36 pm

Pugsly and Sophie the pugs came snuffling along the trail while their pretty pug pal, the perky Peaches, lingered casually in the rear at Game Farm Park, checking out the business end of a passing pooch.

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Dennis ‘Kip’ Herren
New Auburn superintendent keeps achievement in sights
By Robert Whale • June 2, 2008 6:34 pm

Kip Herren keeps the clipping in a frame in his office. In it a former hell-on-wheels student leaps into a joyous coach Herren’s open arms in sheer exuberance after winning a state wrestling title.
Twenty-nine years in Auburn’s schools have put an impressive array of facts and figures at Herren’s fingertips. What there is to know about curricula, testing, education reform and WASL, Kip knows. But that photo is there to remind him what the whole show is about. That kid today is a successful businessman whose wife just gave birth to triplets.
“I keep it because that leap reminds me that if you give kids that opportunity first and then you give them the structure and the care, they can achieve,” said Herren, the newly-appointed superintendent of the Auburn School District.

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Graffiti was found on a building at Game Farm Park.  Faced with a growing problem
City coming to grips with graffiti
By Robert Whale • May 30, 2008 1:59 pm

Like an evil weed, graffiti keeps returning to H Street Northeast. It creeps up light poles, spreads on fences and buildings, appears wherever spraycan-and-marker-wielding vandals can work their mischief and vanish into shadows.

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Herren is the choice
Herren is the choice
By Robert Whale • May 30, 2008 1:58 pm

Auburn School District’s board of directors on Tuesday chose Deputy Superintendent Dr. Dennis “Kip” Herren as the district’s new superintendent, succeeding the retiring Linda Cowan.

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City, Lea Hill residents  to gather, discuss transportation, streets
City, Lea Hill residents to gather, discuss transportation,...
By Robert Whale • May 26, 2008 7:01 pm

Auburn officials will meet with residents of Lea Hill to talk about transportation and streets at 6 p.m. today in the gymnasium at Hazelwood Elementary School.

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Ronnie Roberts
Rising cost of fuel burning everybody
By Robert Whale • May 26, 2008 7:00 pm

Duanna Richards and members of her family had been planning to take their own cars over the Memorial Day weekend to visit her ailing mother in Oregon, but decided at the last minute to carpool.

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Jim Westhusing
Making a difference, taking the lead
By Robert Whale • May 23, 2008 3:37 pm

At 2:30 p.m. on a recent weekday and Rachel Eskesen and Michelle Oliver stood before a group of youngsters in the cafeteria at Olympic Middle School.

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Battle over skimpily-clad baristas continues
Battle over skimpily-clad baristas continues
By Robert Whale • May 23, 2008 3:37 pm

Pastor Pat O’Leary on Monday urged the Auburn City Council not to adopt a “we’ve-done-all-we-could attitude” about the Cowgirls Espresso stand on A Street Southeast and the scantily-clad baristas serving up the joe.

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Superintendent race down to two
Superintendent race down to two
By Robert Whale • May 23, 2008 3:36 pm

The Auburn School District Board of Directors on Monday received the withdrawal of Dr. Elaine Beraza’s candidacy from consideration for the position of Superintendent of Schools.

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