Central Square

Another View: Auburn’s forward momentum

The State of the Community in the City of Auburn is strong and we have forward momentum. The City of Auburn, our residents and business owners will face significant challenges in ...

Annabell McCord gets tile near former Central Square business

  “If not you, who?” Councilman Keith Nesbitt said whittling down people’s achievements to 300 characters to be etched into a Central Square tile would be ...

Downtown grocery store focuses on healthy, organic

The focus of Carol Lee Meinhold’s new Downtown Auburn grocery store is gluten-free and organic. But the items she stocks are products she and her family know and use.“I ...

Central Square vibe brings smile

This past Tuesday night (Aug. 14), I was leaving the Masonic Lodge at about 9:30. As I was walking to my car, I could not help but smile as I looked at all of the people sitting ar ...

Central Square’s the place to be in Auburn

On any given night, people walking around Downtown Auburn can find camaraderie, music and a sweet treat in Central Square. The square, complete with seating areas and a covered fir ...

Community Portrait: In fat times and lean, Jason Keim is in Auburn for keeps

Auburn’s Jason Keim is pretty much a regular guy. Keim is 37 years old and has been living in Auburn since 1989. By trade he’s a painter. He’s also family man, married to Tif ...

Let’s show respect for public property

The recent statue in the Downtown Auburn Central Square is truly a magnificent piece of art (Journal, Feb. 7). I just hope others give it the respect it deserves. Unfortunately, I ...

Auburn City Council balks at 40 percent sewer rate increase

Fearing that residents’ money could be flushed down the drain, Auburn city council members stopped short Monday of backing efforts to consolidate the county’s sewage tr ...

Keep Auburn streets beautiful

Twelve years ago the Downtown Business Association assessed itself by doubling members’ dues to start the planter program. Auburn was a drab mess of stone and concrete and busine ...

Auburn harbors poor disabled access

In regard to the ADA controversy — let me say that I abhor Mr. (Scott) Johnson’s tactics (Journal, July 10). However, if building owners had been compliant in the 20 years sinc ...