It’s about helping small businesses expand, find fresh digs inside Auburn, and proliferate.
City Councilmembers recently approved the Auburn Small Business Development Assistance program, calling it the next step in local efforts to support business development, recruitment and retention.
In effect until Dec. 31, 2013, the program works by cutting the cost of certain permits and approvals and applying different fee rates, computed at 50-percent of what they usually are.
A jury last month found Paramjit Singh Basra guilty of first-degree murder for the 2009 death of his wife, Harjinder, in Auburn.
It’s easy enough to pass the Auburn Justice Center every day without a thought for what a hive of activity the Municipal Court inside really is.
For Antonetta Fioretti and her neighbors, life on G Street Southeast has been sweet. Until, that is, the first commercial truck parked about three weeks ago on the quiet residential street, to be followed shortly thereafter by two of its monster cousins.
Gidget makes the peremptory “woof” and shuffles up, Frisbee clamped in her canines, eyes locked on yours.
The email that went out at 8:06 a.m., Feb. 12 let Margaret Hansen’s friends, business contacts, cousins know she had been mugged in London, had no money and the police wouldn’t help her.
As most people know by now, voters in the Auburn School District approved the district’s four-year maintenance and operations levy by a comfortable majority in the Feb. 14 special election.
On a chilly Tuesday afternoon, 10 years from its first warm twinkling in an engineer’s eye, after countless meetings between Auburn, various state and federal agencies and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, the $22.5 million M Street Southeast grade-separation project between 4th and 6th streets southeast took its first step.
People out of work, a blue economy, the bottom’s about out of the tub. But in the midst of “The Great Recession,” says Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis, the city is poised at the block for that much-talked-about recovery, muscles straining, ready to bust out.
It would bond roughly $59 million to repair 31 miles of aging commuter and freight corridors, and make improvements at key intersections throughout Auburn.
An Auburn man is appealing the first-degree attempted murder conviction that could lock him in prison for more than 24 years.
Leaders at least have a rough idea now about what the late January ice storm actually cost the City of Auburn in dollars and cents.
Police have been issuing fewer citations to drivers caught by the lidless eyes of the red-light photo enforcement cameras.
Psstt, pass it along. Word is that Auburn School District might be the only one in the country that does an all-school food drive to benefit a local food bank.
Voters said yes Tuesday night to the Auburn School District’s four-year educational programs levy, but the Auburn High School construction bond failed to pick up enough steam to get it over the hump known as the 60-percent supermajority.
First-year Auburn wrestling coach Dennis Herren expected big things from his squad at last weekend’s South Puget Sound League North 4A sub-regional meet at Kent-Meridian High School.
Walmart and Coastal Farm and Ranch have finished their purchase and sale agreement process, making Coastal’s ownership of the old Walmart building and site at 1425 Supermall Way official Monday.
For a 61-year-old school, Auburn High seems to be in good shape. But looks aren’t everything.
In a split second on May 20, 2010, Dottie Reed, 18, let her frustrations with the fussy 8-month-old baby she was sitting at her Auburn home boil over. She set him down on the floor hard, once, maybe twice, and spun him around.
Jury selection began Monday for the trial of an Auburn man charged with the 2009 murder of his wife.