Dance moves that got Alexis Berrysmith in trouble in preschool now have become her passion.
Whenever Berrysmith heard music in class, she couldn't sit still. She would stand up and dance. Even if her teacher told her to sit down.
That's one reason Berrysmith started dance lessons at age 6.
On a warm, sunny day this month, Nancy Stapleton stopped by the Kent Fred Meyer at 10201 S.E. 240th to pick up a few essentials needed to barbecue ribs.
The Kent Fire Department wants to remind residents and visitors that the Fourth of July, while a time to celebrate our country’s independence, also is a day of potential injuries and fires.
The Kent City Council has scheduled a special meeting for 5:30 p.m. June 28 at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S., to discuss property-transfer agreements with King County as part of the Panther Lake annexation to the city.
Savannah Gutterud felt the pressure, but the 12-year-old didn't cave.
Instead, the homeschooled sixth grader rose to the occasion during the Junior Bible Quiz Nationals, answering question after question with precision.
The city needs volunteers to help clean up fireworks debris at four Kent parks. The cleanup parties would run 9-11 a.m. July 5.
Get that boat out and head to Lake Meridian Park.
Kent city officials reopened the Lake Meridian boat launch June 25 after temporarily closing the ramp June 9 because unusually high rainfall resulted in a significant rise in the lake's water level and posed a risk to the shoreline.
hen Sue heard last month that Safe Havens, the Kent-based domestic-violence visitation and exchange center she has used for three years, would stay open, she had one reaction.
“I just bawled,” Sue said over the phone June 21. “I was so relieved. I felt like an inmate with a death sentence given life again. We are talking about life and death here.”
Sue said Safe Havens is the only facility where she feels safe enough to drop off her 5-year-old daughter for a court-ordered, one-hour visit once a week with her father.
It's time for the Kent Community Science Night at Meridian Meridian Middle School. The free event, offered Tuesday in conjunction with the Pacific Science Center, is free of charge. Included are exhibits, presentations and lessons given by the teaching staff of PSC's outreach program, Science On Wheels. There will be exhibits in Spanish as well as English.
Participants this year at The Relay for Life of Kent blew away expectations of event organizers by raising more than $222,000 June 4-5 at French Field to support cancer research.
Organizers set a goal to raise $195,000 this year, similar to the amount hit in 2009.
"We completely shattered our goals," said Lance Goodwin, event chairman, during a phone interview June 7. "That's pretty exciting for us."
Nearly 1,400 participants on 96 teams walked in the 12th annual Relay for Life of Kent June 4-5 at French Field at Kent-Meridian High School.
A summary of local, county and federal races, and who has filed to run for them in the Aug. 17 primary.
Kent teenager Jayne Johnson knows intimately the experience of living with Severe Chronic Neutropenia Kostmann’s Syndrome – a condition that means her bone marrow doesn’t work right, and her immune system is failing.
But Dr. Akiko Shimamura of Seattle Children’s Hospital understands the disease on a level that is nearly as intimate.
She has spent years studying it.
Looking for something fun for the youngsters to do this summer?
Why not have them take the Summer Challenge?
Kent 4 Health, a grassroots organization focused on improving the health and quality of life of Kent citizens, is helping to sponsor the “Cruzin’ Passport Summer Challenge.”
Jayne Johnson’s house is like that of most 16-year-olds.
There’s a television in the family room, and a computer well-stocked with video games in the den.
There are her two wiggly little dogs, Taffy and Tyrone, whom she dotes on.
There is her mom, Joey Sexton, who loves her very much.
But for Jayne, that’s where her life, and that of a normal 16-year-old’s, sharply diverge.
Jayne, one of a few thousand people in the world with a rare and possibly fatal bone-marrow disorder, has a house that is a combination sanctuary and prison.
Traffic buzzes by Panther Lake resident John Gehlman as he walks along the sidewalk next to the heavily traveled Benson Highway near Southeast 224th Street.
Jay Maebori, Kent School District’s Teacher of the Year, was selected as the Regional Teacher of the Year by Puget Sound Educational Service District.
A 40-year-old Kent-area man was sentenced June 18 to 50 years in prison for killing his 3-year-old stepdaughter in 2003 in an attempt to recover life insurance money from the girl's death.
Cheryl dos Remédios pointed to where the water and rocks should be as she stopped the afternoon of June 17 between the sculpted split-ring berms at Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks Park on the eastern edge of downtown Kent.
Want to know the people in your Kent neighborhood better? Then sign up with the city of Kent for National Night Out, which takes place Aug. 3.
It is going to be a farewell concert of sorts for Kent saxophonist Darren Motamedy at the third annual Evening of Jazz and Art June 24 at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
Motamedy, the 2008 Kent School District teacher of the year for his work as a band instructor at several elementary schools, will move this summer to Las Vegas to teach band and jazz band at a middle school there.
