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    Articles by Robert Whale
    ‘It’s definitely a win:’ Treatment Release Program a success
    ‘It’s definitely a win:’ Treatment Release Program a...
    By Robert Whale • June 25, 2008 12:00 am

    Auburn’s Treatment Release Program accounted for 224 combined treatment releases to drug and alcohol treatment and mental health services in all of 2007.

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    Auburn restaurateur fights to keep apartments off adjacent land
    Auburn restaurateur fights to keep apartments off adjacent...
    By Robert Whale • June 24, 2008 2:44 pm

    Sunbreak Cafe owner Bruce Alverson said the publicly-owned parking lot east of his restaurant and its lovely trees were what prompted him to buy his property and build his restaurant at First and A streets Southwest in the first place.
    Now both the parking lot he relies on and the trees, especially a 100-year-old oak, could be lost to an apartment building a private development company may one day build on that lot.

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    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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