The city of Bozeman, Mont., often served as the first stop for Kent Police Capt. Ron Price and his wife, Lt. Lisa Price, when they took summer motorcycle trips across the Western U.S.
But this summer they will take all of their belongings to Bozeman, when Ron Price starts July 1 as the chief of police for the city of 45,000.
Kentwood’s Rui Li and Kentridge’s Sean McMullen ended their prep golf careers with a bang last week during their respective Class 4A state tournaments.
Li, a three-time state placer, made it 4-for-4, taking second overall after carding a two-day total of 140 (70-70) at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco. The second-place performance is technically the highest Li has finished in four years at Kentwood. The sweet-swinging Conqueror took 10th as a freshman and sixth last year. As a sophomore, she placed second, but was disqualified from the tournament after a scorecard glitch in which Li reported her own error.
Linda Ness became acquainted with the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in the most personal of ways. She lived through the drama of a breast-cancer diagnosis and treatment.“I had breast cancer 10 years ago,” said the Kent woman, who has been in remission ever since her cancer was treated with a lumpectomy and radiation treatment.
A listing of local Memorial Day services for Kent residents.
A 34-year-old man pleaded not guilty May 27 in King County Superior Court in Kent to charges of vehicle theft and attempting to elude police in connection with a 15-mile chase May 12 with Kent Police.
Ardill Wright Jr., a Pearl Harbor survivor for whom Kent's top baseball field is named, passed away at age 90 at his Kent home on May 25.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced May 27 that the $44 million she secured in emergency funding for critical repairs to the Howard Hanson Dam has passed the full Senate.
The funding, which will go to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was included in the Fiscal Year 2010 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill that passed 67-28, according to a media release from Murray.
After a week off, the Kent Predators return to action with a professional Indoor Football League game against the Billings Outlaws at 7:30 p.m. May 29 at the ShoWare Center.
Several social-service entities were winners Monday at a special luncheon organized by Soroptimist International of Kent.
The service club acknowledged everything from a home a for teenage moms to a botanical trail, in its annual Community Service Awards Luncheon at the Golden Steer Restaurant.
Auburn Police continue to interview friends, colleagues and relatives of Seth Frankel as well as search through physical evidence in an effort to find out who might have killed the Kent city employee.
Frankel, 41, a video program coordinator for the city, was found dead May 22 lying on the floor of his Auburn home in the 100 block of D Street Northwest.
Kent Police are participating in the state's Click It or Ticket seat-belt emphasis patrols through June 6.
The patrols are done at night because the traffic death rate is four times higher at night than during the day, according to a Washington Traffic Safety Commission media release.
Like a lot of people involved with the city of Kent, I'm trying to make sense of the senseless.
Seth Frankel, the city's video-program coordinator, is no longer with us, and it's so difficult to wrap my head around the reasons why.
As outlined in news reports (including ours), Frankel, 41, was found deceased at his Auburn home May 22, and his death is being investigated as a homicide.
The Kent City Council on Tuesday agreed with Mayor Suzette Cooke to keep the city’s popular neighborhood-council program rather than drop it as part of its 2010 budget reductions.
Cooke and John Hodgson, chief administrative officer, worked with city staff to find another $237,000 in savings for the rest of the year as part a budget reduction of nearly $7 million from the original general fund budget of $80 million.
The hallways and offices of Kent City Hall turned somber this week after the death of city employee Seth Frankel.
Frankel, 41, a video program coordinator for the city since 2007, was found dead May 22 lying on the floor of his Auburn home in the 100 block of D Street Northwest.
The King County Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy Monday, and ruled the cause of death as "incised wounds of the neck and hands," and the manner of death as homicide. A spokesman for the medical examiner listed the date of death as May 21.
The Kent city hearing examiner on May 18 approved a conditional-use permit application by the city planners to add an off-leash dog park at Morrill Meadows Park on the East Hill.
Owners of 1991 to 1998 Honda Accords and Civics can pick up The Club, a steering wheel anti-theft device, for free 24 hours a day, seven days a week at the Kent Police station, 220 Fourth Ave. S., as long as supplies last.
Come celebrate the 120th anniversary of the city of Kent from 4-7 p.m. May 28 at the Kent Historical Museum, 855 E. Smith St.
The event will feature new museum arrangements: a mayoral history collection, information about famous past/present Kent residents, a sister-city compilation, and, for the museum itself, a newly redesigned back porch and laundry room.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said she has only just begun to fight for federal money to repair the Howard Hanson Dam and protect the Green River Valley from flooding.
King County prosecutors filed charges May 17 of theft of a motor vehicle and attempting to elude police against a 34-year-old man in connection with the May 12 theft of a pickup truck and a 15-mile chase with Kent Police before he was caught.
Fees for transportation impacts, business licenses and vehicle-license registrations all could be part of a funding package the Kent City Council may tap for funding city street projects.
