Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 negotiators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday night on a new five-year contract for garbage haulers.
Negotiators met for 15 hours on Monday and continued bargaining talks on Tuesday before reaching agreement on a new contract. A federal mediator assisted with the talks.
Annie Guthrie and her father, folk singer Arlo Guthrie, were unsure what to expect, touring with more than a dozen family members for several months across the nation.
The Guthrie family performs at 8 p.m. May 1 at the ShoWare Center in Kent, one of their final stops as the tour wraps up in late May. Annie Guthrie looked back at life on the road over the last several months.
Voters in Kent, King County Fire District 37 and Covington are overwhelming approving Proposition No. 1 to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
After the first count of ballots Tuesday night, Proposition No. 1 had received 10,859 (72.96 percent) yes votes and 4,025 (27.04 percent) no votes, according to the King County Elections officials. Ballots had to be postmarked by April 27 to count in the election.
Contract talks for garbage haulers resumed Tuesday between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 negotiators after a 15-hour bargaining session on Monday.
The session lasted until after 1 a.m. Tuesday, said Susan Robinson, director of public sector services for Waste Management, in an e-mail Tuesday to Kent city officials.
Negotiators from Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 were to meet Monday morning with a federal mediator in an effort to resolve the contract dispute between the company and garbage haulers.
Brenda Jacober looked out the window of her first-floor city clerk's office at Kent City Hall and thought back to when she first took a part-time job with the city in 1975.
"I looked around and thought it would be a nice place to spend my days," said Jacober during an interview earlier this month at her office. "Little did I know I'd spend a lot of them."
A 24-year-old Kent man was killed when he crashed his car into a home at about 12:24 a.m. Thursday in the 28200 block of 144th Avenue Southeast on the East Hill of Kent.
A major commercial development planned for the East Hill on the southern edge of Kent took another step forward this week.
The audience could get a bit confused when Aaron and Nick Johnson take the stage during Kentridge High School's production of "The Sound of Music."
Waste Management will not pick up any garbage or recyclables Thursday at Kent commercial and multi-family customers because of the strike Wednesday by Teamsters Local 174 garbage haulers.
Seven members of the Kent Senior Activity Center let a City Council committee know Tuesday that they oppose the proposed cuts to the lunch subsidy program at the facility.
A strike Wednesday by Waste Management garbage haulers has the potential to impact more than 1,300 commercial customers and 135 multi-family customers in Kent.
The drivers went on strike at about 10:30 a.m.
Ebba Coleman sat up straight in her wheelchair and didn't hesitate to respond to the question of what keeps her so young at the age of 100.
"Doing things I like to do and doing things to help other people," Coleman said in a somewhat loud and raspy voice.
A 17-year-old Federal Way boy remained in critical condition Wednesday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a shooting and fight April 18 on the West Hill of Kent that also injured another teen-age boy and two Kent men.
Get ready for three days of a three-ring circus at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
The Kent City Council will vote at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. April 20 at City Hall on whether to approve a conditional-use permit by a Kirkland developer for a proposed East Hill commercial development on the southern edge of Kent.
Voters in Kent, Covington and King County Fire District 37 will decide this month whether they want to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
The Kent City Council voted unanimously April 6 to adopt a revised gambling ordinance to allow the Great American Casino to remain open when the city annexes the business and the rest of the Panther Lake area on July 1.
Tell the Kent City Council what you think of proposed 2010 budget cuts during a public hearing in front of the Council's Operations Committee at 4 p.m. April 20 in the Council Chambers at City Hall.
A King County Superior Court judge April 14 dismissed charges against a 22-year-old Kent man in connection with a series of incidents involving a partially clothed man along a trail near Kent-Meridian High School.
