Jessie Hizey’s journey from youthful sports card enthusiast to owner of his own sports card shop was long and circuitous.
The sun sets next Thursday on Peckenpaugh Drug, Auburn’s lone independent pharmacy. For more than 90 years, Auburn residents have filled their prescriptions at the Auburn institution, which in its time has occupied various locations on Main Street.
For most people, actually owning a Thoroughbred racing horse is as much of a long shot as a donkey winning the Triple Crown. This season, however, the dream of being a Thoroughbred owner comes true for 128 people, courtesy of Emerald Downs’ Emerald Racing Club.
When Auburn Mountainview track and field coach Joel MacDougall asked who was interested in trying their hand at the pole vault last season, he got a handful of candidates.
Inside the Auburn Gymnastics Center’s new, 29,000-square-foot digs on 15th Street Southwest, co-owner Lauren Phelps watches as the upper-level gymnasts practice on the vault.
Soggy fields were not enough to dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of ballplayers at the Auburn Little League opening ceremonies this past Saturday.
Police Officer Joshua Hong put his life on the line, using deadly force to stop a suspected car thief from stealing a Pacific patrol car on Feb. 6. For his actions, the six-year veteran received the Medal of Valor, awarded to any police officer in Washington State “who has saved, or attempted to save, the life of another at the risk of serious injury or death to himself or herself.”
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Auburn Riverside Ravens centerfielder Emma Bedsworth took last season’s 2-18 finish a bit hard. “It was hard seeing all the losses compared with some other teams,” said Bedsworth, a junior co-captain on that squad. “Some of the girls that I used to play with (in select ball) made it to state.” Despite the team’s record, left-handed Bedsworth did not have a bad season, finishing with the best batting average (.471) and slugging percentage (.647) in the South Puget Sound League North 4A – all while striking out just four times. She also made full use of her speed, swiping eight bases in 10 attempts.
Music is all about the shared experience for Dan Zanes. The children’s entertainer and Grammy Award-winning musician looks to engage the audience in The Dan Zanes Song Gusto Hour at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Auburn Performing Arts Center, part of the Ave Kids Series.
When Auburn High School senior Ryan Hubbard looks at the banners decorating his school’s gymnasium – tributes to the success of Trojan teams past – he knows something is missing.
Used to be the Auburn Trojan baseball squad was synonymous with success. A perennial powerhouse in the South Puget Sound League, the Trojans were also once a fixture at the Washington State baseball championship tournament.
Cody Hebner’s minor league baseball career has been a textbook example of upward mobility.
Auburn High School’s gymnasium resounded with the rapid fire, click-clack of plastic stacking cups last Saturday, as competitors from throughout the Western States and Canada pitted their skills against one another in the Northwest Regional Sports Stacking Championships.
The Pacific City Council voted unanimously at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday to start accepting proposals from legal firms and lawyers interested in representing the City.
Auburn-area youth football players and cheerleaders have a new option this year with the formation of the Auburn Riverside Youth Football and Cheer organization.
Starting this spring, the group will offer five football teams and a cheer squad for local children from first to eighth grade. The teams will compete in the Nisqually Junior Football League along with teams from Puyallup, Fife, Kent, Auburn, Buckley and Tacoma.
On Jan. 24, Pacific residents who park RVs or trailers in their front yards got an ultimatum – move ’em, or face the consequences. The ultimatum came in the form of a letter, which Mayor Leanne Guier directed the City’s code enforcement department to hand deliver to 70 homes.
Pacific residents got to sit down and talk with 30th District Rep. Roger Freeman (D-Federal Way) last Saturday as part of the Community Social Gatherings. And even if residents raised issues ranging from health and human service funding to transportation, Freeman said he believes marijuana legalization is forefront on his constituents’ minds.
Auburn Mountainview mounted a fourth-quarter comeback but fell short to fourth-ranked Sunnyside 61-45 in a 3A regional girls basketball playoff at Eisenhower High School in Yakima on Saturday.
The Pacific Police Department is getting another tool to fight crime and protect the public. The City Council on Monday approved the purchase of a combination radar detector trailer and message board to help combat speeders on city streets.
