It’s about safety and connections.
The City Council on Monday voted to apply to the Washington State Public Works Board for a $375,000 grant to extend the White River pedestrian-bike trail system and build urban center bike lanes on C Street Southwest with related bike facilities.
Prompted by the approaching rainy season and the diminished ability of the Howard Hanson Dam to hold back the waters of the Green River, the Auburn City Council on Monday approved a resolution giving Auburn’s mayor the authority to declare a state of emergency before flooding actually occurs.
When the time comes for someone to write the story of the Auburn School District’s 2009-2010 year, Superintendent Kip Herren suggests the following line: we worked it out together.
For the 2009-2010 school year, the Auburn School District will implement austere budget plans that address the unprecedented state fiscal crisis that cut 6 million dollars from the state apportionment to the district. This reduction forced the district to reduce programs funded by local levy dollars by 25 percent. Reductions in administrative salaries, transportation services, staff development, elementary athletics, program administration, support services staff, classified staff, software support, contract services, teaming time, and supplies were made to ensure that the priority of teachers and class size was maintained.
It’s easy to understand why kids have grown so attached to the familiar, friendly man behind the big wheel of the broad school bus.
The City of Auburn Emergency Management Office, in conjunction with the White River Valley Citizen Corps Council and the Valley Regional Fire Authority, will offer a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training course to area residents.
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Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between Aug. 29 and Sept. 1: Aug. 29…
The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 162 calls for service between Aug. 24 and Aug. 30, among which were…
The “Greatest Show Show on Earth” is passing through Auburn.
A man robbed the Columbia Bank in the 2000 block on Auburn Way North today, fleeing with some amount of cash, Auburn police said.
For most, the first day of school is a few days off. But doing a bit of homework this week could make your travel on the last few days of summer just a bit more enjoyable.
The threat of flood waters closing the King County Animal Shelter in Kent prompted the Metropolitan King County Council on Monday to call for the County Executive to expand contingency plans for the protection of animals across the region in the event of any kind of disaster.
Council authorizes proactive emergency declaration in advance of
potential flooding
The deadline to submit parade applications for the Veterans Day Parade is Friday.
A building collapsed on West Main Street early Saturday morning, rupturing a gas line that supplied an Auburn residence. At…
TOP Food & Drug – in partnership with its customers – is helping to provide donated school supplies for foster children in King County.
Juillie Jonz is remarkably calm for someone who has as many creative ideas bouncing around the brain as he does.
Before Alfred and Anna Olson sold the 6.5-acre triangular strip of land on the north end of their Green River Road farm to King County decades ago, it had been their major field, as the piles of drying hay captured in aerial photographs dating to the 1930s clearly attest.
Auburn, Kent, Renton and southwest King County chambers of commerce will be conducting an Emergency Preparedness Symposium on Sept. 23.