Every year there’s a little less boom and flash, sparkle and burn in Auburn’s Fourth of July.
Between rainfall and humidity in the days leading up to the big night, police patrols, cooperation from the Muckleshoot Tribe and the Valley Regional Fire Authority’s public education efforts, this July 4 was relatively quiet.
Auburn officials recently told members of the Muckleshoot Tribe that the city would not pursue a total ban on fireworks for at least one year, based on the tribe’s willingness to work with police and shorten the hours of operation of the tribal fireworks discharge area to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Auburn’s most controversial baristas can keep doing their thing as long as they cover their breasts from the areola on down.
In a letter sent out last week to the stand’s owner, Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis let the women of Cowgirls Espresso at 1216 A St. S.E., that the City of Auburn will be watching. And if customers get more of an eyeful than the law allows, the city is ready with penalties.
Scanning the interior of King County’s newest library, Auburn’s Laura Marshall gave it high marks – plenty of space, scores…
Auburn’s Treatment Release Program accounted for 224 combined treatment releases to drug and alcohol treatment and mental health services in all of 2007.
Sunbreak Cafe owner Bruce Alverson said the publicly-owned parking lot east of his restaurant and its lovely trees were what prompted him to buy his property and build his restaurant at First and A streets Southwest in the first place.
Now both the parking lot he relies on and the trees, especially a 100-year-old oak, could be lost to an apartment building a private development company may one day build on that lot.
The 40-plus-year-old Dykstra and Galli levees along the west bank of the Green River in northeast Auburn are showing their…
The City of Auburn will not enact a fireworks ban on June 16 after all.
As the result of a meeting Thursday with tribal representatives, city officials agreed they would wait one more year in order to judge steps the tribe pledged to take at that meeting to address citizen concerns, particularly those stemming from noise generated by the reservation’s fireworks discharge area north of the Muckleshoot Casino.
Two Auburn police cars, one with lights flashing and siren keening, collided at the intersection of East Main and A Street Southeast Monday evening while responding to an emergency call at nearby Auburn Regional Medical Center.
Many streets within the City of Auburn could use litter pick up and a little tender loving care. On Monday the Auburn City Council approved two programs that will match streets with the people who love them.
To the hoots, claps and wild cheers of friends and supporters, 84-year-old Gladys Paulus was crowned Pioneer Queen of Auburn Good Ol’ Days during the 19th annual contest at the Auburn Senior Activity Center.
To the hoots, claps and wild cheers of friends and supporters, 84-year-old Gladys Paulus was crowned Pioneer Queen of Auburn…
Be it artistic, gang related or just plain nasty, graffiti is fast becoming a costly pain, an eyesore and a gross blight throughout the City of Auburn.
What happened in the Auburn School District board room Thursday officially was “a retirement party,” a term usually associated with long, slow decline. And with so many colleagues and friends milling about swapping stories, it certainly looked like such an event.
But when Linda Cowan is the retiree, the term “retirement” needs amplification – for the district’s high-energy superintendent would be the last person to take that storied rocking chair and gather dust.
July 4, 2008 is expected to be the last Independence Day people can set off any kind of fireworks other than sparklers in the city of Auburn without being busted.
City Council members are likely to adopt an ordinance at their June 16 meeting that would ban fireworks. The ban would go into effect June 17, 2009.
By 2012 King County will no longer accept misdemeanor inmates, such as drunken drivers, bad check passers, small-bore drug users, petty thieves and prostitutes from the 36 cities that contract with it for jail services.
Faced with that looming deadline, the South King County cities of Auburn, Des Moines, Federal Way, Renton and Tukwila hope to build a new regional jail within the next four years to house misdemeanor inmates.
Many a present and former college student has sweated Shakespeare and lived to tell the tale.
But what if all the bard’s plays had been neatly delivered to them in a snappy, hour-and-a-half package with zingy, side-splitting dialogue?
Well, let these young scholars look no more, for Auburn Regional Theater’s comedic presentation of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” is what they have been looking for.
Pugsly and Sophie the pugs came snuffling along the trail while their pretty pug pal, the perky Peaches, lingered casually in the rear at Game Farm Park, checking out the business end of a passing pooch.
Kip Herren keeps the clipping in a frame in his office. In it a former hell-on-wheels student leaps into a joyous coach Herren’s open arms in sheer exuberance after winning a state wrestling title.
Twenty-nine years in Auburn’s schools have put an impressive array of facts and figures at Herren’s fingertips. What there is to know about curricula, testing, education reform and WASL, Kip knows. But that photo is there to remind him what the whole show is about. That kid today is a successful businessman whose wife just gave birth to triplets.
“I keep it because that leap reminds me that if you give kids that opportunity first and then you give them the structure and the care, they can achieve,” said Herren, the newly-appointed superintendent of the Auburn School District.
Like an evil weed, graffiti keeps returning to H Street Northeast. It creeps up light poles, spreads on fences and buildings, appears wherever spraycan-and-marker-wielding vandals can work their mischief and vanish into shadows.
