Some recent activity in the downtown area of Kent has some hopeful about the days ahead.
More than 600 people applied for about 100 ShoWare Center job openings in Kent.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce hosted a speed candidating and networking event July 20 at the Senior Activity Center.
The Kent business Monterey Gourmet Foods, a food processing company based out of California, announced it will be closing its doors.
It’s time for the public to nominate its favorite community-centric corporations for Washington’s highest civics award.
Secretary of State Sam Reed has announced his office will start accepting nominations Friday for a Corporations for Communities 2011 Award. August 31 is the nomination deadline.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce will host a Speed Candidating and Networking Event to meet with Kent City Council candidates.
Kent East Hill Grocery Outlet grand opening
Vision Quest Sport and Fitness has purchased Mieko Fitness of Edmonds, Lake City, Mill Creek and Canyon Park.
As the mayor of a small town in Montana, he put that principle into practice. Buying a new dump truck was not an emergency. If the city didn’t have the money to buy it, the answer was no. Even if state or federal funds were available to make the down payment, if the city couldn’t come up with the rest of the money, the answer was still no.
According to a press release from Jason Alderman with Visa's financial education programs Practical Money Skills for Life, a new survey shows Americans will spend an average of $216 on travel, food, beverages, entertainment, fireworks and other items over the Fourth of July holiday.
Yukon Grill, located at 19033 68th Ave. S. D-108 in the West Valley Business Complex, announced new hours. The restaurant will be open 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Just 19 years old, Rob Hansen had no idea what he would do for work after he broke his neck in a professional motocross racing accident in 1987 that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
Hansen, now president and chief executive officer of Bayview Limousine Service in Tukwila, anticipated a long career in motocross racing until he crashed going over a hill during a race in Richland.
Made in America is hot again.
In Kent, Brian Coughren and Tom Willman have seen their business, Seattle Safety grow to 45 jobs since starting their business in 1996.
In 1975, as America was preparing to celebrate its bicentennial, Poland was a suppressed Soviet satellite state.
The Polish people were impoverished, had no right to free speech and if you wanted a job, you had to play ball with Communist Party bosses. Poland was a bleak land that had never recovered from World War II.
Kent-based Sleep Country USA is celebrating its 20th anniversary Sunday, June 26 with Wild Waves Theme Park in Federal Way by hosting the Wild Waves Summer Kick Off for Foster Kids.
Partisan wrangling in Congress over the federal deficit and government spending has created gridlock. Not much else is getting done. Into that void have stepped federal bureaucrats who are circumventing Congress to implement sweeping policy changes.
While most of us are just beginning to soak up the summer sun, the Kent-based Washington Shoe Company is already looking forward to the fall rain.
Celebrating its 120th anniversary this year, the company is gearing up for another successful rain boot season with well-loved licensed characters and other new products, while expanding its staff and physical footprint, both at home and overseas, according to a June 7 company media release.
About 3,000 people attended a satellite viewing Tuesday at the ShoWare Center in Kent of the Get Motivated seminar presented live at the KeyArena in Seattle, according to ShoWare officials.
Jimmy T’s Sports Bar & Grill in Kent will hold a fundraising event from 9 p.m. to closing June 11 for 9-year-old Dawson Snider.
Nominations are being accepted now through local Chambers of Commerce and cities for the first King County Executive’s Small Business Awards to be held this October.
