ABRIA JONES
Kent-Meridian
Grade: Senior.
Sport: Track & Field.
Favorite class: English.
If you could invite anyone in the world to dinner, whom would you invite, and what would you serve: I would invite Mickey Mouse and I would serve Mickeroni and cheese.
The Backstreet Boys will play at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
The Kentlake High School Drama Club will present Rogers and Hammerstein "South Pacific" May 5-8.
The drama club at Kentwood High School in Covington presents "The Wizard of Oz" from May 5-8 and May 12-15.
Early last month, Sunrise Elementary teacher Chris Knutkowski, was named STAR 101.5’s Teacher of the Week in a local contest conducted by the radio show. Knutkowski, a first-grade teacher, was nominated by her student, Zachary Cohen.
Early last month, Sunrise Elementary teacher Chris Knutkowski, was named STAR 101.5’s Teacher of the Week in a local contest conducted by the radio show. Knutkowski, a first-grade teacher, was nominated by her student, Zachary Cohen.
A U.S. District Court judge April 30 in Seattle sentenced a 28-year-old Everett man to six years, five months in prison for human trafficking in connection with forcing a woman to work as prostitute in 2007 and 2008 along Pacific Highway South in Kent and Des Moines.
The Seattle Majestics women's football team is hoping to reverse its fortunes Saturday, when it takes on the Portland Shockwave at Kent's French Field.
Census takers will be fanning out into Washington State and knocking on the doors of households that didn’t mail back their 2010 forms beginning May 1.
A King County Superior Court jury in Seattle found a Kent-area man guilty of second-degree murder April 28 for the drowning death of his 3-year-old stepdaughter in 2003 at a pool in his backyard.
Bob Sandall is returning to head coaching duties.
Sandall, who coached girls basketball at Kentwood in the 1980s and at Kentlake from 1999-2001, announced last Friday that he has accepted the opening at Kentridge High. He has spent the last six years at Kentridge as the assistant girls basketball coach to Mark Champoux.
The soccer playoffs are right around the corner.
But where are the local teams?
If the standings in the South Puget Sound League North Division remain as they were at the beginning of the week, none of the four Kent schools — Kentlake, Kent-Meridian, Kentridge and Kentwood — will be advancing. The top four teams from the North earn a postseason berth. As of Thursday afternoon, Kentwood found itself in sixth (5-5-2, 17 points) followed by Kentlake (4-6-3, 15 points), Kentridge (3-6-4, 13 points) and Kent-Meridian (0-10-2, 2 points).
Parents and their teen-age children are invited to participate in a community conversation about the dangers of alcohol and prescription-drug use.
The free event runs from 6-8 p.m. May 6 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St., and includes dinner.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday it received a $5,000 grant from the Muckleshoot Charity Fund.
Provided by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, the Muckleshoot Charity Fund places a high priority in awarding grants to organizations throughout the region that are focused on public issues.
Residents can attend a public hearing before the Kent city hearing examiner about a conditional-use permit application by the city of Kent to add an off-leash dog park at Morrill Meadows Park on the East Hill.
Brandon Fagerlie and Nicholas Lintz, seniors at Kentridge High School, and Alex Pfaff and Michael Moloney, seniors at Kentwood High School, will compete as teams against eight other Washington high schools to diagnose and debug a Ford vehicle in 90 minutes at the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills state finals May 4.
He still has another year of high school basketball.
But Kentridge High's Gary Bell couldn't wait any longer.
The 6-foot-1 guard verbally committed Monday night to play basketball at University after his final year at Kentridge.
The mayors of Burien, SeaTac, and Tukwila will address members of the Southwest King County Chamber of Commerce at the May Membership Luncheon May 14 at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Tukwila.
Want to refresh your style for spring and support finding a cure for cancer? Then head over to see a fashion-related show April 28 at Valley Floor Co., 25423 Seventh Ave. S.
