Auburn officials signed their name to the purchase and sales agreement July 7, and last week Stratford Company followed suit.
That opens way for the two to swap downtown properties and Stratford to launch a major redevelopment project in the downtown, by early next spring at the latest.
The City of Tacoma’s prosecutor’s office was expected to decide by the end of the week whether to charge Auburn City Councilmember Virginia Haugen with obstruction of justice.
It is no secret that auto theft, although down in the Seattle metro area since 2005, remains a major property crime in the state, especially in King and North Pierce counties.
People passing by the Auburn Avenue Theater in recent days might have looked up and noticed something fairly big and important missing – the marquee.
Numbers are in on the city’s 2008 fireworks season and things are looking up.
Sunbreak Cafe owner Bruce Alverson has put his building and land up for sale.
The Boys and Girls Club of King County signed a tentative lease with the City of Auburn for the Parks, Arts and Recreation administration building at 910 9th St. S.E.
The plastic sign hung briefly from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad trestle over Auburn Way South on July 4, so briefly that few people saw it or read what it said: “Will the last business in downtown Auburn please turn out the lights?”
Graceful hands moved back and forth over Rosaline Fornah’s head, over and around and up and down, knotting, twisting, turning, weaving the pedestrian possibilities of ordinary follicles into the intricate order of African braids.
A Puyallup man pleaded not guilty Tuesday, July 29 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent to a…
Under the watchful, compound eyes of West Main Street’s colorful dragonfly sculptures, the Spokane husband and wife artist team of Tom Askman and Lea Ann Lake sweated Friday’s blazing sun to splash life and color into ghostly images of insects sandblasted into the concrete.
For decades Auburn’s Downtown Association has promoted businesses and services, hung banners above Main Street, issued parking permits and organized…
Local cities will have two more years to house their misdemeanor offenders in King County jails owing to King County Council’s recent decision to extend the regional jail services contract.
Arnie and Pauline Hall tucked into a late lunch Wednesday at the Sunbreak Cafe, a downtown restaurant they have frequented for 11 years.
“It’s one of the nicest places in the city,” Arnie Hall said between bites of sandwich. “When we have company come from out of town, this is one of the places we take them.”
Every year there’s a little less boom and flash, sparkle and burn in Auburn’s Fourth of July.
Between rainfall and humidity in the days leading up to the big night, police patrols, cooperation from the Muckleshoot Tribe and the Valley Regional Fire Authority’s public education efforts, this July 4 was relatively quiet.
Auburn officials recently told members of the Muckleshoot Tribe that the city would not pursue a total ban on fireworks for at least one year, based on the tribe’s willingness to work with police and shorten the hours of operation of the tribal fireworks discharge area to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Auburn’s most controversial baristas can keep doing their thing as long as they cover their breasts from the areola on down.
In a letter sent out last week to the stand’s owner, Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis let the women of Cowgirls Espresso at 1216 A St. S.E., that the City of Auburn will be watching. And if customers get more of an eyeful than the law allows, the city is ready with penalties.
Scanning the interior of King County’s newest library, Auburn’s Laura Marshall gave it high marks – plenty of space, scores…
Auburn’s Treatment Release Program accounted for 224 combined treatment releases to drug and alcohol treatment and mental health services in all of 2007.
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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