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City to decide what to do with marijuana businesses BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
City leaders may decide Tuesday the fate of an ordinance that purports to meet the challenges posed by marijuana businesses in Auburn.
They could adopt locally enforceable state marijuana business licensing requirements while keeping the City out of any regulatory or permitting roles. Or they could extend the moratorium that’s been in effect for a year and is about to
expire. “By adding to the City Code the requirement that (such businesses) comply with state regulations,” City Attorney Dan Heid explained to members of the Planning and Community Development Com-
mittee last Monday at City Hall, “that makes it enforceable by the City. If you didn’t do that then … leaving enforcement to the state may be less than successful.” Enforcement, Heid added, could come down on a business that has set
up shop where the law says it cannot be, that doesn’t have the required security, that doesn’t have the cameras it has to have, that doesn’t meet sign requirements, that doesn’t meet [ more MARIJUANA page 4 ]
Police report: Vehicle theft on the rise in Auburn BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
DOWN THE STRETCH Stryker Phd and jockey Leslie Mawing, middle, charge from last place to capture the $200,000 Longacres Mile last Sunday in 1:33.67, the fifth-fastest winning time in 19 runnings at Emerald Downs. The winner, a 5-year-old Washington-bred
more photos online… auburn-reporter.com
gelding by Bertrando-Strking Scholar, is trained by Larry Ross for owners Jim and Mona Hour of Bellevue. California invader Boyett, far right, finished second. Story, more photos, page 11. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
New high school shines through BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
More than 75 years of Auburn High School graduating classes walked past old lamp stands, up stairs and through the front doors of the soon-to-open school off
Auburn Int’l Farmers Market
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East Main Street, Aug. 21. From there, bodies young, old and everywhere in between fanned out into classrooms, gawked at the familiar Trojan emblem that once advertised the old gym but it is now just inside the
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Main Street entry, milled about in the commons area, climbed up and down stairs, opened and closed doors, smiled, pointed. Many inspected legacy items from the old school, here a piece [ more SCHOOL page 8 ]
A cornucopia of fruits and vegetables! Sunday market through Sept. 21 | 10 am-3 pm Sound Transit Plaza, 23 A Street SW www.auburnfarmersmarket.org | 253-266-2726
Auto thieves plying their dubious trade in Auburn have been rolling away with an average of 58 cars and trucks every month to date in 2014. Should the average hold, by the end of the year thieves will have parted 696 cars from their owners. That sobering estimate is one part of a recent Auburn Police Department report that measures auto thefts over the years. Assistant Police Chief Bill Pierson presented the findings to City leaders Monday afternoon at Auburn City Hall. Within the report’s time frame, the high water mark for [ more THEFTS page 4 ]
Marci Killian, culinary arts teacher, gets comfortable in the big kitchen at the new Auburn High School. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
See you at the Market