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    Articles by Robert Whale
    This map shows the annexation area where Auburn is proposing to facilitate the construction of access improvements to enable people to cross the BNSF tracks and A Street Southeast safely. Map courtesy City of Auburn.
    Project targets safer passage between Pacific and Auburn’s...
    By Robert Whale • September 2, 2023 7:30 am

    Anyone who has ever tried to cross from the city of Pacific into south Auburn on foot or on bicycle…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Open your eyes and avoid the stains of...
    By Robert Whale • September 1, 2023 1:30 am

    I have been thinking lately about all the people who by some dark mechanism have managed to willfully blind themselves…

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    Auburn residents Lenny and Kathi Wiuff were among those who attended last year's Hops and Crops Festival. Photo by Robert Whale/Auburn Reporter
    Big celebration day coming to Auburn on Sept....
    By Robert Whale • August 26, 2023 7:00 am

    City officially opens new arts center and hosts Hops and Crops Festival.

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    Copper Gate Apartments at 4750 Auburn Way N. (Screenshot from website)
    Auburn PD strikes use agreement with Copper Gate...
    By Robert Whale • August 25, 2023 6:30 am

    In the agreement, the apartment complex authorizes the APD to use one of its clubhouse rooms “for meetings and general law enforcement purposes.”

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    You and me and a few linguistic stinkeroos...
    By Robert Whale • August 25, 2023 1:30 am

    I am a student of language. However, I never criticize spoken goofs. That could earn me a smack, well earned….

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    ‘Leave it to the states’ has left me...
    By Robert Whale • August 18, 2023 1:30 am

    In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on the grounds that…

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    An artist’s sketch of one possibility for a new Auburn Avenue Theater. (Courtesy of City of Auburn)
    Auburn plans to open new theater downtown
    By Robert Whale • August 17, 2023 7:30 am

    Project estimated to cost between $8.5 million and $10 million.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Organized thoughts about my second fight with cancer...
    By Robert Whale • August 11, 2023 1:30 am

    It is 12:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3.

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    The City of Auburn on Monday voted to accept FAA grant funding for the upgrading of existing hangars at the Auburn Municipal Airport to enclosed T-hangars to address an outsized waiting time for the structures. File photo.
    Federal grant will help upgrade hangars at Auburn...
    By Robert Whale • August 10, 2023 4:00 pm

    Construction starts next month.

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    Courtesy Photo
An artist’s image of the first floor of the Postmark Center for the Arts, which will open at 20 Auburn Avenue after a 3-year-long renovation.
    Auburn’s new arts and culture center opens in...
    By Robert Whale • August 10, 2023 10:30 am

    City officials say the new Postmark Center for the Arts will drive economic activities in Auburn’s downtown core.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Too many hare-brained ideas have hopped the fence...
    By Robert Whale • August 5, 2023 8:30 am

    In a United States not so far away and not so long ago, common sense muscled lunatic ideas to the…

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    File photo: Debbie Christian and Leticia Brito of the Auburn Food Bank.
    Auburn Food Bank’s new home should be ready...
    By Robert Whale • August 5, 2023 7:30 am

    The food bank has been maxed out of capacity for many years, and the move will give it about five times as much space.

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    Pictured: Auburn City Councilmember Yolanda Trout-Manuel, left, listens to Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus at the recent council meeting. (Screenshot from YouTube)
    Auburn City Council members learn it’s a no-no...
    By Robert Whale • August 4, 2023 7:30 am

    The discussion queued up a back-and-forth between Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus and Councilmember Kate Baldwin that settled who council members could speak with and who they couldn’t.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Here’s an ‘old-fashioned’ view of some modern dilemmas...
    By Robert Whale • July 28, 2023 8:30 am

    I have been writing this opinion column ever since my return from the extended time I took off to deal…

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    Jeff Tate, director of community development for the city of Auburn, Segale Properties spokesman Mike Pruett and Mark Segale address the Auburn City Council about the future redevelopment of key Segale holdings in Auburn, among them the gravel mining operation established 40 years ago on the city’s south end. (Photo by Robert Whale, Auburn Reporter)
    Company to close mining operation in Auburn
    By Robert Whale • July 27, 2023 8:02 am

    Development options are being considered for the 900-acre site.

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    Fentanyl. (Courtesy photo)
    Auburn will receive money as part of state’s...
    By Robert Whale • July 21, 2023 7:30 am

    Auburn is one of 125 eligible local governments that signed on to state Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s resolution with four companies that produced or sold opioids.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Pot-of-gold theory: Memories from an innocent age |...
    By Robert Whale • July 21, 2023 1:30 am

    Apparently, word about our adventure got around, as for weeks we were the butt of jokes at school.

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    Auburn Police Department photo
Auburn Police Officer Jeff Nelson has pleaded not guilty to the May 31, 2019, shooting death of Jesse Sarey. He maintains he acted in self defense.
    Auburn police officer still on payroll while awaiting...
    By Robert Whale • July 19, 2023 2:30 pm

    City has not conducted an internal investigation of Jeffrey Nelson and the related 2019 shooting.

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    Photo courtesy of Downtown Auburn Cooperative
In Seattle artist Mira Hoke’s mural, the old Auburn Depot lives again on the west side of the Agrishop.
    Auburn’s economic development division stays busy on many...
    By Robert Whale • July 15, 2023 7:30 am

    There are also new murals, like the one on the corner of Main and Auburn Way North with its pleasing depiction of greenery and Mount Rainier.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Give yourself permission to find your own drumbeat...
    By Robert Whale • July 14, 2023 1:30 pm

    The summer before I graduated from college, an unasked-for “bolt from the blue” changed my life.

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