The Kent School District Superintendent search has been narrowed to two finalists.During interviews Feb. 6 and 7 the Kent School Board pared down the applicants… Continue reading
How do you get to the Met?
Practice, says the old joke.
But practice isn’t always enough. It takes talent, dedication and a little bit of luck.
And in the case of Noah Baetge, regional winner of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, he has all three.
Sitting on a desk in the corner of Denise Harig’s home office is a small, glass vase with three strong sprouts of bamboo reaching out… Continue reading
Generally speaking, Jonathan Stanton is a musician. So when he was turned on to a multimedia contest to draw attention to the situation in Darfur,… Continue reading
A Kent supermarket sold one of the three winning tickets to Sunday’s Washington Lottery Hit 5 Cash jackpot of $180,000, state officials say.The winning ticket,… Continue reading
Customers headed to Butterfly Salon and Spa in Kent Station during the past few weeks have arrived to find the shop unexpectedly closed down and… Continue reading
For lawmakers from the state’s 47th District, the main focus of the current legislative session will, of course, be the state’s growing budget gap, but… Continue reading
Getting through to seventh-graders is not easy, especially for a teacher.But every day in Room 29 at Mattson Middle School, Andrea Hemphill is doing everything… Continue reading
It’s a long way from her small village of Fuzhou, China, but Ann Lo and her family try to keep the traditions of the Chinese… Continue reading
To hear the Associated Student Body representatives from each of Kent’s high schools tell it, the most interesting thing to come out of the joint… Continue reading
Celeste Paul likes to keep up with how her son, Rio, is doing in school. But Paul is busy and at 12, Rio, like many… Continue reading
The official ribbon cutting of the new LA Fitness facility, located in the old King County Journal press plant on Washington Avenue, took place Jan.… Continue reading
Like any other job shadow, Matt Swanson arrived at Ian Henry’s office ready to work on the morning of Jan. 9.But unlike most other offices,… Continue reading
As chair of Ecology and Parks committee for the Washington State House of Representatives, 33rd District Representative Dave Upthegrove said he, and other committee chairs,… Continue reading
Brad Jones has been living on his own for about eight years now and he has never been happier.“I had a nice place down the… Continue reading
Apna Dhaba Indian restaurant opened its doors this past week at 415 Central Ave., the site of the old Clay Oven.
They may not live at 3515 Jenny Dale Drive in Dallas, Texas, but it will always be the house the Bruhahns helped build.
Together with a team of 250 other Habitat For Humanity volunteers from around the country, Brian and Kristen Bruhahn of unincorporated King County near Kent added their sweat and effort to build nine homes in the small neighborhood just outside the center of the city, including the three-bedroom rambler home on Jenny Dale Drive.
