Stuart Smith, a 2002 Auburn High School graduate, will return in September from deployment in Bagdad, Iraq. Sadly, his best friend might not be home to greet him.
More than 660,000 ballots, featuring candidates and several important local measures, were mailed last Thursday to absentee voters for Washington’s first top-two primary.
For 35 years, the Washington State Department of Agriculture has kept the gypsy moth out of Washington. With the help of nearly 30 seasonal gypsy moth trappers, officials hope that record continues.
The Auburn Police Officers Association will hold its ninth annual charity golf tournament at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Auburn Golf Course, 29630 Green River Road.
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Construction activities on the Auburn Arterial Pavement Patching Project will begin Aug. 11 on West Valley Highway between 11th Street NW and 15th Street NW. Construction will continue through Aug. 15 (See map: www.auburnwa.gov/_media/_temp/08-West_Valley_Work_Area.pdf). Work hours will be from
Auburn officials signed their name to the purchase and sales agreement July 7, and last week Stratford Company followed suit.
That opens way for the two to swap downtown properties and Stratford to launch a major redevelopment project in the downtown, by early next spring at the latest.
The City of Tacoma’s prosecutor’s office was expected to decide by the end of the week whether to charge Auburn City Councilmember Virginia Haugen with obstruction of justice.
When he was about 11 years old, my brother Dan walked in the door one day after school wearing a New York Yankees ball cap.
“Where’d you get that?” I asked him enviously. But before he had even replied, I already knew what his answer would be.
“I found it in the woods,” he said. Naturally. That’s where kids like us found everything.
Jordan Stoffel, 9, plays dodgeball at the Auburn Valley YMCA Summer Day Camp. The camp for kids, ages 6 to 12, runs Monday through Friday until the last week in August. Activities include games, arts and crafts, field trips, lunch, swimming in the pool and the alpine climbing wall.
A stout rock wall stands tall and strong, escorted by a large and bright crucifix in front of the storied church.
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Kelly Campbell of Auburn shot a 2-over-par 74 on Wednesday, good for third place, six shots back after the first round of the Washington Junior Golf Association tournament in Spokane.
King County Elections is still looking for 700 individuals to fill nearly 4,000 poll worker positions for the state’s Aug. 19 primary.
The Valley Regional Fire Authority
It is no secret that auto theft, although down in the Seattle metro area since 2005, remains a major property crime in the state, especially in King and North Pierce counties.
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South King County might not seem like a major crossroads for international relations.
