The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra offers beginning strings and beginning orchestra programs this fall starting Oct. 1.
Taite Pryor has joined the Kent Downtown Partnership as an administrative assistant.
The Greater Kent Historical Society presents Celebrating the History of Kent Past, Present and Future, its annual dinner auction fundraiser Oct. 6.
A Kent park will close starting Monday, Sept. 17 so a contractor can begin work on a $2.65 million project along the Green River to improve the Boeing Levee and provide better flood protection to the Kent Valley.
A celebration of life service for Stacy Ankerfelt begins at 1 p.m. Saturday at Auburn Riverside High School, 501 Oravetz Road.
The U.S. Department of Labor has sued telecommunications provider DirecTV and a Kent-based contractor with the company for allegedly failing to pay employees the federal minimum wage or for overtime when installation technicians worked more than 40 hours per week.
Gov. Chris Gregoire has appointed Kent attorney Mark Albertson to the Green River Community College Board of Trustees. His four-year term begins Oct. 1.
King County prosecutors have charged a 41-year-old Kent man with attempted promoting commercial sex abuse of a minor after he allegedly tried to pick up an undercover cop posing as a 17-year-old girl near the Westlake Center in Seattle.
Singers in fourth grade through college are invited to check out Rainier Youth Choirs during an open rehearsal.
Two families were displaced from their homes following an apartment fire at about 9:37 p.m. Monday in the 23700 block of 101st Place Southeast on Kent’s East Hill.
South County Cats is pleased to announce Pasado’s Safe Haven’s Spay Station will be in Kent on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at King County's Regional Animal Services Pet Adoption Center, 21615 64th Ave. S.
Visually impaired students of the Washington State School for the Blind got a special introduction to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's new circus Barnum Bash on Friday at ShoWare.
Fewer and fewer giant sandbags are blocking the Green River Trail in Kent.
A proposal to build 30 cottage housing units in Kent will be the subject of a public hearing at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12.
More than 100 cars sparkled at the second annual Kent Downtown Partnership (KDP) Rod & Custom Car Show last weekend.
As many as 40 positions could be cut at King County jails at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent and the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle.
The return to competitive figure skating by Olympic champion Evan Lysacek in Kent continues to pick up momentum.
Charismatic and philosophic Art Oberto celebrated his 85th birthday last week the way he tries to live each day.
Courtney Thompson is still getting used to being called an Olympian. Thompson, an accomplished setter in volleyball, is back home after doing her part in Team USA's silver-medal finish at the London Olympics.
The city of Kent wants residents to take an online survey about future downtown development, including whether they would consider living downtown.
