It’s a long way from Nashville, Tenn. to the ShoWare Center in Kent, but it’s just the beginning for Soniah Spence, who will take the ice as part of Disney On Ice’s “Worlds of Fantasy” show.
Last year at this time I was in Philadelphia celebrating a World Series Championship with 2 million of my closest friends.
I had high hopes (high, apple pie-in-the-sky hopes) of doing it again this year, but, unfortunately, the New York Yankees were working from a different script.
Workers from Boeing's Airborne Early Warning and Control team on Friday made a donation of more than 12,000 food items to the Kent Food Bank… Continue reading
Just two months after going on strike in part because of class sizes and case loads, the Kent Education Association has filed a grievance with… Continue reading
It’s been a busy year at the Kent Food Bank, as staff prepare for what is usually their busiest season.
“It’s up,” Executive Director Jeniece Choate said of the food bank’s numbers. “It’s definitely up.”
The slogan over at the Kent School District’s central kitchen is “We serve education every day” and for the past 21 years Dan Johnson, the director of food and nutritional services, has lived it.
The end-of-year reports are in and the Kent School District appears to have weathered this past year's financial storm in pretty good shape, which has prompted officials from the Kent Education Association (the teachers' union) to chastise the district for not spending money it had allotted.
A lot has changed in the past 25 years, especially up at the Reber Ranch, where they've watched the city creep closer and closer."Kent's gotten… Continue reading
Back in 1927, when he was 4 years old, William Holloman was swept up in the excitement of Charles Lindbergh’s cross-Atlantic flight and all the attention it brought him.
It wasn’t until the teacher started passing out quizzes that parent Kasheen Brown began to worry a little.
“I thought they were going to make me take the quiz in geometry,” Brown said with a laugh. “I was worried. It’s been some years.”
With revenues expected to continue to fall, Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke Thursday night presented her 2010 budget proposal, which eliminates nearly 56 positions - 24 of them actual layoffs.
Kent Council member and candidate Elizabeth Albertson is apologizing for stating in the 2009 Washington state voters’ guide that she is the executive director of the Kent chapter of Communities in Schools, despite being let go from the position in June.
Voters from all over Kent turned the Senior Activity Center into the focus of the city's political energy Monday as the candidates for the open positions in city government all gathered for the Kent Reporter-sponsored debate forum. Roughly 300 people filled the senior-center meeting room to watch candidates in three important city races square off.
Like many Kent valley businesses, the Kent School District is preparing a plan for what to do with its three valley schools - and the students and teachers in them - if flood waters start to rise this winter.
Only one city Council incumbent is being challenged this year in the general election, but Councilwoman Elizabeth Albertson is ready for the challenge from political newcomer Geoff Koepp.
Charity Kowalczyk and her mother Marie Erskine work well together, filling in each other’s gaps.“She’s the smart one,” Erskine said, pointing a thumb at her… Continue reading
With word that County Executive Kurt Triplett's budget seeks to get the county out of the animal care and control game, one group - including… Continue reading
The school year is off and running at Emerald Park Elementary, where the parent teacher student association hosted its first fundraiser Oct. 2, a Safari Jog-a-Thon that had kids of all ages taking laps around the field behind the school.
As students and teachers are getting adjusted to the new Panther Lake Elementary School, district plans to move ahead with sale of the old building… Continue reading
While no one can say for sure if or when there will be a flood this winter, the advice is the same from the governor to the chamber to the city to everyone in between, including Mike Howard, External Affairs Director for FEMA Region 10.
