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Local leaders grapple with problems posed by crumbling freight corridors

Commissioners from the ports of Tacoma and Seattle, business owners, labor leaders, and the mayors of Auburn and Kent met at Auburn City Hall last Thursday to talk about the problems posed by aging freight routes within Green River valley cities.

 

Lily Wrubelski

Program engages, accelerates young minds for Kent, Auburn students

All is fierce concentration on the face of 4-year-old Lily Wrubelski, seated at a computer terminal alongside her father Brandon, matching yips and yaps, squeaks and howls, mewling and woofing she hears to the animals she's seeing on the screen.

 

Kent teen charged with beating of homeless man

Deonte Lamont Rasul-Chiono, prosecutors allege, jumped with both feet and the full force of his 275 pounds on the head of Lonnie Johnson as the 53-year-old homeless man lay unconscious, helpless and bleeding heavily from his head on the street in the 2200 block of I Street early Wednesday morning. On Thursday, prosecutors charged the 18-year-old Kent man with second-degree assault.

 

Auburn’s Jim Fugate

Auburn’s Jim Fugate prepares for day river turns on him

Nine years ago, Jim and Billie Fugate moved from their home of 29 years on Lea Hill to a house on Pike Street just where it curves into 12th Street.

Auburn’s Jim Fugate
Driven by concerns about the vulnerability of the Auburn Food Bank to possible flooding this fall and winter

Auburn no stranger to alarm bells; preparing for flood threat

The City of Auburn began planning for potential flooding of the Green River last January shortly after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers first raised alarm bells about the compromised holding capacity of the Howard Hanson Dam.

Driven by concerns about the vulnerability of the Auburn Food Bank to possible flooding this fall and winter
Katy Vanderpool

Howard Hanson Dam issues could complicate next rainy season

The Green River could flood next rainy season, so people should have a plan to deal with it.And they should buy flood insurance.Those were the… Continue reading

Katy Vanderpool

Search continues for boy presumed drowned in Green River

The search continues for a 13-year-old boy missing since the car he was riding in plunged into the Green River near the Auburn Golf Course… Continue reading

A memorial stands Tuesday near the Green River

Two-year-old boy recovered from Green River; teen remains missing

Recovery crews from the King County Sheriff's Office pulled a submerged car from a swift and swollen Green River that contained the body of a… Continue reading

A memorial stands Tuesday near the Green River
A King County rescue unit combs the Green River in search of a sunken car and two missing boys Friday. A 16-year-old driver of the car escaped. She called 911

Green River sweeps away car; driver escapes, 2 children still missing

A 16-year-old girl lost control of her car and drove it off the Green River Road into the swollen, swift moving waters of the Green River just north of the Auburn Municipal Golf Course on Friday morning. Two boys, ages 2 and 13, were in the car at the time and remained missing as of 1 p.m.

A King County rescue unit combs the Green River in search of a sunken car and two missing boys Friday. A 16-year-old driver of the car escaped. She called 911