It’s been a heck of a ride for the Washington Majestics 12U girls fastpitch club team.
Pacific Mayor Cy Sun hosted a public meeting Tuesday at City Hall to outline his plans to reorganize City administration, prevent cancellation of the City’s insurance and cut personnel costs.
With the formation this week of the Committee to Recall Cy Sun, the effort to remove Pacific’s controversial mayor from office began to roll in earnest.
Pacific police arrested controversial Mayor Cy Sun on Thursday as he tried to get into the sealed City Clerk’s office at City Hall.
Friends of Roger Roberts – an Auburn man stabbed to death July 2 – raised more than a $1,000 dollars for Roberts’ family at a benefit show at the Game Farm Park Amphitheater on Tuesday.
The event featured performances from several local bands, as well as a martial arts display from HPG Pro jujitsu.
Memories tend to bump and jostle for space in the mind and heart of a veteran coach.
For Auburn Riverside’s Christine Leverenz, who after 16 years has stepped down as the Ravens fastpitch coach, many memories bubble up instantly.
The best of them even leave her a bit misty eyed.
Michael Rucker and Nick Minteer have played ball together for 10 years.
For the past 12 years, success has eluded the Auburn Little League 12U fastpitch program.
According to coach Perry Azevedo, who helmed the league’s 15-1 Lady Huskies team this season, 2001 was the last time a team from Auburn won the District 10 Tournament of Champions (TOC).
That drought ended this year, however, as the Lady Huskies romped through the competition at the TOC, winning the tourney with a perfect record and averaging an impressive 17 runs per game.
Although the season is over for the Lady Huskies, seven members of the squad begin play with the Auburn/Kent Fastpitch All-Stars this weekend at Brannan Park, as they vie for a district title.
On July 3 the fifth-annual Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival roars again into Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre, bringing a host of metal’s biggest acts to provide the backing music for the area’s headbanging faithful.
Among the bands poised to rock the socks off this year’s lucky ticket-holders are behemoths Slayer, Slipknot and Mötorhead on the main stage, as well as support acts As I Lay Dying, The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria, Upon a Burning Body, Betraying the Martyrs, I the Breather and Dirtfedd.
Furious citizens demand Mayor Cy Sun’s resignation
Tony Smith wasn’t much for organized exercise — until he lost his leg.
Friends, schoolmates and acquaintances gathered at Pacific Park last Friday to honor the memory of slain Mt. Baker Middle School seventh-grader Walter Denesha.
Dozens gathered to honor the Pacific teenager who, according to police, was stabbed to death in his bed by his sister’s ex-boyfriend, Brandon Suhr.
Suhr, 19, pleaded not guilty to the murder at his arraignment at the King County Courthouse in Seattle on Wednesday.
From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in Pacific Park, friends, classmates and acquaintances of Walter Denesha (pictured below) will gather for a candlelight memorial to illuminate a life lost.
Friction between City staff and Pacific Mayor Cy Sun heated up again this week when City Clerk and Personnel Manager Jane Montgomery arrived at work Monday to find her office door padlocked shut.
James Penor is no stranger to awards. As an elite, international martial artist, Penor, 60, has won more than 100 trophies and medals in International Karate Association competitions.
In his final, backward glance at Auburn Mountainview High School’s 2011 football season, outstanding memories jostle for space in the mind of head coach Jared Gervais.
Cy Sun’s recent sacking of John Calkins as Pacific’s chief of police has councilmembers questioning the mayor’s communications with them.
Students come to the Washington Virtual Academy, an online alternative K-12 public school, for different reasons. But when it comes to prom, they’re all there for one reason – to hang out with friends, dance and have fun.
The 19-year-old Algona teen who allegedly stabbed to death a 13-year-old boy in Pacific last week was charged with first-degree murder and burglary Wednesday at Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Suhr is in custody and prosecutors have asked that his $1 million bail be increased to $2 million because of his “clear danger to the community.”
It started with a simple notion of helping family, said Ultimate Edge founder Simi Strickland.
Initially the concept was just to help a handful of blood relatives, sons and nephews achieve all they could on the football field, in the classroom and in life.
Now, more than a decade later, Ultimate Edge has grown far beyond its simple origins, blossoming into an organization that has helped scores of local athletes move on to college football.
