Embattled Pacific Mayor Cy Sun issued a press release Thursday vowing to “take my fight to the people” and continue to oppose any efforts to recall him. “I was elected by the people of the City of Pacific to serve their interests,” Sun wrote. “The people of the Pacific will have an opportunity to decide whether they want me to keep fighting for them against the corruption, nepotism and cronyism that have been business as usual in the City government for too long. We have work left to do and I will keep fighting for the people and against entrenched interests.
Pacific residents will have the chance to decide whether to put a recall of controversial Mayor Cy Sun on a ballot, according to the Washington State Supreme Court.
In a decision issued today, the state’s high court upheld a previous King County Superior Court decision that there was sufficient reason to recall Sun. In a decision issued today the court upheld a previous King County Superior Court decision that there was sufficient reason to recall Sun.
Tyler Flannery’s skills as a distance runner were apparent at an early age.
“In the fifth grade I set the school record in the mile,” he said.
It wasn’t until his sophomore year at Auburn High School, however when he decided to concentrate exclusively on running, that his promise began to be realized.
Now a senior, Flannery, who will run for Seattle University next season, has cut a swathe through the South Puget Sound League North 4A competition, capturing first-place finishes in the 1,600 meters in each of the Trojans’ four dual meets.
More than 20 million Americans and hundreds of communities throughout the country participated in the inaugural Earth Day celebration on April 22, 1970.
Since then the annual event – which raises awareness on environmental issues and mobilizes volunteers to help clean up their communities – has grown into a global affair, with more than a billion people in 192 countries participating.
Mary Norman saw a need. In 1986, she went looking for a home for her son, Terry, who had sustained a traumatic brain injury in a car accident on Green Valley Road.
“There was no place for him except a geriatric nursing home,” Norman said. “It didn’t seem appropriate for him. He was 18 years old, and all his roommates were 80. He handled it well. … He called the place the Raisin Ranch.”
Shooting an independent film based one’s own life can be downright weird. “This is my childhood home, so it’s basically watching my life,” Jennifer Foreman, a 2002 Auburn High School graduate said, one eye on the split-level home on Lea Hill where she’s shooting most of “An Appointment with Mr. Vield”. “It’s a little strange.”
Monday’s Pacific City Council meeting introduced a new twist in the ongoing drama, with the absence of several city staff, including the acting city clerk, who normally would take minutes of the meeting. Mayor Cy Sun – who was also a no-show at the meeting – told staff not to attend because “the staff is all unraveled with nervousness from the pressure the council has been putting on them.”
A report of a suspicious package in Pacific forced the evacuation of several businesses, as well as road closures in Pacific on Friday.
The Pacific Police Department responded to a report that a “black backpack type bag” was found, unattended near a garbage can by the south doors at the Jack In The Box restaurant at 402 Seattle Blvd. N., near Ellingson Road.
Green River Community College’s Lindbloom Center came to life at the sixth annual Spring Fairy Festival. The festival – organized by Angela Wehnert, an Auburn resident and owner of Crescent Moon Gifts in Tacoma – gave fantasy enthusiasts the chance to gather and celebrate the coming of spring by dressing up as their favorite fantasy figure, whether they be fairies, pixies, brownies or sprites.
This season’s on-the-field success for the Auburn Mountainview baseball team is a story three years in the making.
It all began back in 2010, the Lions’ last appearance in the state 3A playoffs.
Among the young sophomores on that team were this season’s senior core of Brice McCulloch, Nick Brooks, Shawn Guinn and Kekoa Nahaku.
The players in the city of Pacific’s ongoing drama will take their latest act to a new stage this week – the courts.
According to Pacific Civil Service Commission Chair Scott McIver, the commission will seek a King County Superior Court order to force Mayor Cy Sun to comply with the commission’s decision to return suspended Police Chief John Calkins and Lt. Edwin Massey to duty.
Auburnites will have a chance to view musical parody at its finest when “Forbidden Broadway” rolls into the Auburn Avenue Theater for two nights next weekend, part of the city’s Bravo Performing Arts Series. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. April 26 and 27.
For the past 10 years, jockey Juan Gutierrez has been riding with one goal in mind.
It hasn’t been the pursuit of the crown jewel of the Emerald Downs racing season, the Longacres Mile, although he’s managed to snag two of them – aboard No Giveaway in 2005 and with The Great Face in 2007.
Change is inevitable.
For nine years coach Cary Davidson guided both the boys and girls soccer programs at Auburn Mountainview High School.
In that time, Davidson took the boys to state tourney appearances in 2009 and 2010.
This year, however, with Davidson turning his full attention to the girls program, the boys teams began the season with a new coach for the first time in the program’s history.
Cue the Jimmy Fioretti era.
Pacific City Councilmember and Mayor Pro Tem James McMahan knew his action at Monday’s council meeting would not sit well with Mayor Cy Sun.
The acrimony between Pacific Mayor Cy Sun and the City’s police force ratcheted up a level this past week.
On Thursday the city’s Civil Service Commission reinstated Chief John Calkins and Lt. Edwin Massey, overturning their suspension and clearing them to return to work.
Two weeks ago the officers were placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation by Sun into “intimidation and harassment.”
The similarities go beyond the last name.
For Brandon Cash, whose tribute to music icon Johnny Cash rolls into the Auburn Avenue Theater on April 13, the connection with the “Man in Black” goes deeper than a glancing resemblance and a rich, bass-baritone singing voice.
Last year’s Washington State 4A Track and Field Championship provided a number of special moments for Brandi and Brittni Williams.
Not only did the Auburn Riverside sisters contribute to the Raven girls second-place team finish but they also garnered individual accolades, senior Brandi snagging her second state title in the long jump and sophomore Brittni grabbing sixth place in the same event.
Best of all, however, was having the chance to compete together at the pinnacle of prep athletics in the state.
The Pacific City Council met Monday to clear up the confusion that had enveloped the apparent confirmation of interim city clerk Sandy Paul on March 25.
And after council members reconsidered their earlier 3-3 vote, they voted 4-2 against the confirmation.
Paul – who had served as Pacific’s city clerk from 2004-2006 – said she was disappointed. She insisted that, despite her qualifications, she had lost her job because of her support for the mayor.
“(The council has) forgotten what their mission is, and they have forgotten what their oath of office is,” Paul said. “The only thing they’re trying to do is get rid of the mayor.”
Pacific Mayor Cy Sun confirmed on Wednesday that he had hired Annette Spicuzza as the interim Public Safety Director.
Spicuzza fills in for current Public Safety Director John Calkins, who is on paid administrative leave, pending the results of an investigation into unspecified allegations of harassment and intimidation.
