Auburn Reporter, August 17, 2012

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INSIDE | The unaffordable Healthcare Act | Dr. Petter [7]

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Sports | Penney stable pins hopes on Jebrica in Sunday’s running of the Longacres Mile [12]

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City to examine future of municipal airport By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

Auburn Municipal Airport and its owner, the City of Auburn, are struggling in the chains that

bind them to the Federal Aviation Administration, Mayor Pete Lewis told members of the Municipal Services Committee on Monday. Chains forged and drawn tight with each loan the City accepts

from the FAA for the maintenance or improvement of the 44-year-old commuter airport, as such loans create an obligation to the FAA and grant it sway that continues for the term of the loan.

If Auburn, Lewis said, is to be denied almost any function at the airport that isn’t purely an aircraft, its leaders may want to consider whether the City should keep accepting those loans and indeed,

whether in the long term the City should own an airport at all. “If we are to be told that we are only to be of a certain size, only to be able to do certain functions, [ more AIRPORT page 2 ]

Sun faces more woes in Pacific By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Pacific Ballroom Dance group performs in the grand parade during Auburn Days last Saturday. The downtown came to life last weekend with the annual celebration that included live entertainment, food booths,

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a community barbecue, crafts, a classic car, truck and cycle show, juried art shows, and poetry and book readings at the Auburn Avenue Theater. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

Exploring the history of Prohibition ‘Stills in the Hills’ sheds light on period with photos, artifacts

By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

Temperance crusader Carrie Nation once more slams her famous hatchet into saloon counters,

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bootleggers hustle cheap liquor and spray bullets and still after still falls to King County’s relentless Sheriff Matt Starwich and his Dry Squad. Only thing that seems

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to be missing from White River Valley Museum’s latest exhibit “Stills in the Hills: Homebrewed Hooch in the Age of Prohibition,” is a speakeasy door with a [ more EXHIBIT page 5 ]

Every Sunday through Sept. 23 | 9 am-2pm Sound Transit Plaza, 23 A Street SW www.auburnfarmersmarket.org | 253-266-2726

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Local entrepreneurs knew how to brew moonshine in homemade distilleries or stills by 1920. This pile represented only the most recent collection of confiscated stills taken from Pierce County bootleggers in 1920. COURTESY, WRVM

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Dancin’ in the streets

The trouble keeps mounting for Mayor Cy Sun and the City of Pacific. On Monday the mayor and the Pacific City Council were informed of Auburn’s formal refusal of Sun’s proposed interlocal agreement – which would have allowed Pacific to contract with its neighboring city for vital services in vacant positions such as public works director, city engineer and planner – as well as a second whistleblower complaint against Sun, citing improper governmental action and retaliation. In a letter to Sun, the City Council, and City Attorney Kenyon Luce, Associate Planner


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