Puget Sound travel times showed improvement in the second half of 2009 compared with the same period in 2007 and 2008, according to WSDOT’s congestion report on travel times published in its most recent quarterly report, the February 2010 Gray Notebook.
The Lady Chatelaines Junior Dance Clinic is scheduled for 9 a.m - 2 p.m. Feb. 27 at Kentridge High School, 12430 S.E. 208th St. Cost for the day is $35 and includes a T-shirt.
Starting at 5:30 a.m. Thursday, people seeking emergency care at Valley Medical Center will go to the hospital’s new state-of-the-art emergency room.
Steve Armstrong perked up when he heard about temporary jobs for the U.S. Census Bureau at a community jobs forum hosted by local state legislators Feb. 20 at Kent City Hall.
Kent-Meridian junior Ta Say plays soccer, but he has never faced an opponent quite like the 18-inch-high device in front of him.
That's because there has never been a soccer player quite like the robot that Say, 18, and his fellow members of the Kent-Meridian Robotics team has built to compete in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition next month in Seattle.
The Washington State Department of Transportation invites the public to a hearing and open house on Tuesday, Feb. 23, to review and comment on its environmental analysis of the SR 520 floating bridge and west-side interchange designs.
Teenagers are typically known as a group that enjoys talking trash. But at Kent-Meridian High School, there’s now a lot less trash to talk about.
That’s because of the work of the environmental sciences classes, which have worked hard this year to educate their fellow students about the importance and ease of recycling.
Toxicology reports from the accident that claimed the life of Kent-Meridian student Dorian Tursic reveal the 18-year-old basketball player had a blood alcohol level of 0.05 at the time of the Jan. 3 accident, according to Kent Police Department spokesperson Lisa Price.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at SeaTac International Airport on Feb. 17 arrested a Kent man on an outstanding National Crime Information Center felony warrant for vehicular assault.
Kent is in the running for federal headquarters that could bring approximately 2,000 jobs to the area.
Dog lovers are pumped that there could be a new off-leash park coming this summer to Kent's East Hill.
Kent city officials are working with residents in an effort to open a canine-friendly park on an undeveloped 3-acre site between Morrill Meadows Park and East Hill Park along Southeast 248th Street. The city-owned site sits just east of 104th Avenue Southeast.
It’s shaping up to be another difficult budget year in the Kent School District.
Projections from Financial Director John Knutson, based on the governor’s budget proposal for 2010-2001, show an estimated $7.1 million drop in funding for next year, a gap that could mean a round of staff cuts this spring.
Though the Kent School District is facing budget cuts of their own, one of the district's sports programs may be adversely affected by budget cuts in a neighboring district.
The Kent Sister Cities Association is looking for candidates to serve as youth ambassadors to Norway and China for short-term stays with a host family. Past ambassadors have come from the Kent, Renton and Auburn areas.
Kent residents who subscribe to yard-waste service now can recycle all their food scraps and food-soiled paper in their yard-waste carts. When you recycle food scraps rather than throwing them in the garbage, they are turned into nutrient-rich compost for local gardens and parks.
The Kent School Board is seeking candidates for the board position left vacant by the resignation of Chris Davies, whose last meeting as a member of the board was Feb. 10.
They may not be actual brothers and sisters, but the older students at Soos Creek Elementary are certainly beginning to look out for the younger members of their new Star Families.
U.S. Navy Seaman Michael Nodine was stationed in Norfolk, Va., with the rest of the crew of the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) when the magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattled the island nation of Haiti last month.
Nodine, a 2005 graduate of Kent-Meridian and a master helmsman on the Bataan, along the rest of his crew, immediately packed up and headed south to aid in the relief efforts.
A Seattle-area developer still wants to build a six-to-seven story, mixed-use apartment complex in the Mill Creek neighborhood on the edge of downtown Kent.
A U.S. District Court judge Friday sentenced a 47-year-old Des Moines man to seven years in prison, five years of supervised release and $231,100 in restitution for 19 felony counts in connection with threats he made against the Boeing Co., Shell Oil and Chevron Oil.
