Against a backdrop of good news all too rare in this tough economic climate, Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis gave his final State of the City address Tuesday afternoon at Emerald Downs before an audience of local business and civic leaders.
But during his annual State of the City address at Emerald Downs on Tuesday, Mayor Pete Lewis surprised the crowd of business and civic leaders with the announcement that Wells Fargo Bank had sold the former Cavanaugh family-owned block to Landmark Development of Tacoma.
Auburn meeting ends with agreement to work together to get funding
King County prosecutors are recommending a 31½-year sentence for an Auburn man who recently pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend two years ago.
There may be a joint American-Vietnamese war memorial one day at Veterans Memorial Park. But to get one, veterans groups must sit down together and work things out. It also could take some soothing of feathers ruffled by poor communication and misunderstandings about the size and scope of one such memorial.
Women need to raise $5,000 each to make the trip, but time’s running out.
State mandated charge $9.50 cheaper than it was in 2006
The massacre of 20 children and six adults on Dec. 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. horrified the nation. In the days and weeks that followed, Ilalko Elementary School Counselor Lyndsay Morris began thinking hard about doing something for the kids in her charge.
Auburn’s planning and community development director, Kevin Snyder, is stepping down to accept the top planning job in Sedona Arizona.
Preferred site is vacant industrial land north of 37th Street Northwest, West Valley Highway intersection.
U.S. Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Auburn, WA-District 8) showed up a few minutes late to the 10 a.m. grand opening of his Auburn office on Jan. 30.
City leaders have formed something entirely new to Auburn – a council of young people to keep the City’s elected leaders up to date on issues that matter to youth. The Auburn City Council made it official recently with the creation of the Auburn Junior Council.
Samuel Cruz was driving home from work July 19 when his car drifted to the side of a residential street in Auburn and struck Stacy Ankerfelt as she stood by her car. Ankerfelt, 28, who had just finished her first year teaching fifth grade at Scenic Hills Elementary School in Kent, never regained consciousness. She died of her massive injuries one month later in a Seattle hospital.
Stage production coordinated with Austen-related activities throughout community
The Auburn School Board on Monday awarded the contract to build the new Auburn High School to Lydig Construction, Inc. Lydig submitted a base bid of $80.3 million but the board incorporated six alternate bids, which brought the total contract to $80.6 million.
Prosecutors says police stymied by current restrictions
People who live in River Mobile Estates know that the Reddington levee on the Green River north of Brannan Park in northeast Auburn isn’t up to snuff.
The homeless, wandering Great Dane that a friend of Patricia Cosgrove had offered to adopt and for which the White River Valley Museum director had put up a small reward, was hit by a car and killed Thursday night on the 1800 block of Howard Road.
State Sen. Pam Roach (R-rural Auburn) violated a Senate policy forbidding her to have direct contact with staff not long after she was allowed back into the GOP caucus last spring.
If a municipal park district ran Auburn’s parks and recreation program, costs and savings would result in a net benefit to the City of Auburn of about $5 million.