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Bound for great things: Auburn High School’s Ethan Smetheram and Harjot Rai
Ethan Smetheram has played baseball for most of his life, including each of his high school years.
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Rainier Audubon Society to debut first Bird Festival at Flaming Geyser Park
The Bird Festival is being organized with the Washington State Parks department.
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Family and community celebrate a true Auburn pioneer
Y Social Impact Center’s L Building is renamed after Dick Brugger.
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Kids Day in Auburn set for June 24 at Les Gove Park
Kids Day began in Auburn in 1986 to celebrate the kids among us, but it has evolved through…
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Gnome Trail draws visitors to whimsical patch of forest in Maple Valley
There is a small issue of broken gnomes and even instances of intentional vandalism.
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Sun smiles on return of Petpalooza at Auburn’s Game Farm Park
On their way to one of Petpalooza’s popular events, a woman was overheard trying to calm her husband’s…
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YMCA will dedicate building to Auburn community legend Dick Brugger
It began in 1973, when a group of parents, government leaders and educators organized to address the growing…
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Petpalooza returns May 21 to Auburn’s Game Farm Park
After a 2-year pandemic time-out, Petpalooza, Auburn’s critter spectacular, returns from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May…
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Kids reel ‘em in at annual fishing derby in Auburn
When Isabel Palady, a girl of few words, caught the first fish of her life last Saturday morning…
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Family, friends celebrate Dorothy Purser’s 102nd birthday
The guest of honor took in the much ado about herself contentedly, gray hair tucked under a tall…
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Petpalooza in Auburn planned for May 21
Now that the COVID-19 vaccine and mask and physical distancing mandates are no longer in place, staff of…
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World’s longest surviving kidney patient dies
Mercer Island resident Nancy Spaeth went on dialysis at age 18 and received four kidney transplants.
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Valley Regional Fire Authority’s Gwen Streeter retires
No statistics are available to tell us how common a bubbly personality, high intelligence, compassion and an inexhaustible…
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Metals from the Mojave photo exhibit draws deep truths from what pioneers left behind
Rusted cans, discarded bolts, spiraling culverts and other rusted metals scattered across a desert may seem to some…