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Articles by Robert Whale
Don’t make your pet a scofflaw. Take advantage of pet licensing amnesty month. Image courtesy of Auburn Valley Humane Society.
Good news for renewing your pet license in...
By Robert Whale • April 3, 2024 3:30 pm

Twice a year, the Auburn Valley Humane Society waives the penalty for pet owners.

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Auburn Station’s existing parking garage. (File photo)
Alternatives for Auburn parking garage
By Robert Whale • March 30, 2024 7:30 am

Sound Transit is displacing city employee parking from 1st Street NW and A Street NW where the new Sound Transit garage will be built.

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Auburn Justice Center, 340 E. Main St. File photo
Auburn seeks solutions for aging public facilities
By Robert Whale • March 29, 2024 7:30 am

In the years since 2021, when the council adopted the plan, the buildings have not gotten younger, and the problems the plan identified have not gone away.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Once upon a time, there was a local...
By Robert Whale • March 29, 2024 1:30 am

I could call up any large chain store in a city and talk to someone without being told to call corporate ownership on the other side of the country.

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Homeless encampment in a wooded area in Auburn on Aug. 27, 2021. File photo
Council modifies rules for homeless camping visibility
By Robert Whale • March 22, 2024 7:30 am

Too often, the first indication Auburn’s homelessness outreach workers get that an unhoused person has died in a tent or…

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
If you’re right, and you know it, then...
By Robert Whale • March 22, 2024 1:30 am

As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”

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A ribbon cutting was held March 20 to celebrate the new home of the Auburn Food Bank, 2804 Auburn Way N. Photos by Robert Whale/Auburn Reporter
Auburn Food Bank officially opens new home
By Robert Whale • March 20, 2024 5:45 pm

The move gives the food bank about five times as much space.

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Auburn Station’s existing parking garage. (File photo)
Sound Transit and city seek deal for parking...
By Robert Whale • March 16, 2024 7:30 am

City-owned easement stands in the way of construction.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
The wit and wisdom of Mrs. Whale carries...
By Robert Whale • March 15, 2024 1:30 am

I have not written much in this space about my mother.

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Auburn Food Bank, 2804 Auburn Way N. (Photo courtesy of Debbie Christian)
Auburn Food Bank prepares to open new location
By Robert Whale • March 14, 2024 7:30 am

Official ribbon cutting set for March 20.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Foreign languages often find a better way to...
By Robert Whale • March 8, 2024 1:30 pm

“Learn a new language and get a new soul.”

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Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus delivers her annual State of the City address to a near capacity audience in the Events Center at the Muckleshoot Casino on Thursday, Feb. 29. Photo courtesy City of Auburn
State of the City 2024: Auburn mayor addresses...
By Robert Whale • March 6, 2024 12:30 pm

Speech was held Feb. 29 in the Events Center at the Muckleshoot Casino.

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King County District Court judges. Pictured left to right: Judge Raul Martinez, Judge Corinna Harn, Judge Lisa Paglisotti, Judge Fa’amomoi Masaniai, Judge Kristin Shotwell, Judge Rebecca C. Robertson, Judge Peter Peaquin, Judge Jill Klinge, Judge Lisa O’Toole, Judge Kevin Peck, Judge Matthew York, Judge Leah Taguba, Judge Brian Todd, Judge Elizabeth D. Stephenson, Judge Kuljinder Dhillon, Judge Marcus Naylor, Judge Karama H. Hawkins, Judge Nathaniel Green. Not pictured: Judge Virgina Amato, Judge Michael Finkle, Judge Michelle Gehlsen, Judge Laurel Gibson, Judge Gregg Hirakawa, Judge Andrea S. Jarmon, Judge Rhonda Laumann. COURTESY PHOTO
Should Auburn go back to using a municipal...
By Robert Whale • March 1, 2024 7:30 am

Discussion surfaces on city’s agreement with the King County District Court.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
The key thing is what we do with...
By Robert Whale • February 29, 2024 8:00 am

I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.

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Kent Hay, Auburn’s Outreach Program Administrator, explores homeless encampments in Auburn. File photo
Discovery of body in Auburn leads to discussion...
By Robert Whale • February 29, 2024 7:30 am

Auburn City Code already establishes rules and restrictions related to loitering on publicly-owned property or related to uses and activities within city owned parks.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Songs trigger memories of growing up in Auburn...
By Robert Whale • February 24, 2024 7:30 am

That’s what happens whenever I hear the opening notes of Bruce Springsteen’s wonderful “My Hometown.”

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King County elections drop box. (File photo)
Auburn School District levy is passing by thin...
By Robert Whale • February 21, 2024 3:30 pm

These were the results as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Poetic proof that artificial intelligence needs a human...
By Robert Whale • February 15, 2024 1:30 am

Of course there’s irony here in that LinkedIn is asking writers — who, after all, make their living by writing — to help “educate” a technology that would automate their jobs.

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Maddy Lindsay won the Miss Auburn crown last weekend. Photo courtesy City of Auburn.
Miss Auburn and Miss Auburn’s Teen 2024 winners...
By Robert Whale • February 14, 2024 4:30 pm

There were 10 Miss Auburn and 11 Miss Auburn Teen contestants who competed in each phase of competition.

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Auburn School District Superintendent Dr. Alan Spicciati. Courtesy photo
Auburn School District levy trails by narrow margin...
By Robert Whale • February 14, 2024 1:10 pm

A simple majority of 50 percent plus 1 vote is required to pass a levy, and the superintendent is optimistic.

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