Kent city officials called it a “trend stopper” as sales tax revenue in September nearly matched the city’s monthly budget projections for the first time all year.
Members of the cast of "New Moon," the second film in the "Twilight" saga, will be at the Westfield Shopping Center shopping mall this week as part of a promotion for the new movie, which opens Nov. 20.
Cast members Charlie Bewley and Daniel Cudmore, who play Demetri and Felix, respectively, will be at the mall at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at Nordstrom.
CITY OF KENTBallots Cast: 15620Turnout: 42.34%MayorSuzette Cooke: 10111, 68.60%Jim Berrios: 4601, 31.21%Write-in: 28, 0.19%Council Position No. 2 short and full termJamie Danielson: 10821, 99.12%Write-in: 96,… Continue reading
A U.S. District Court jury convicted a 47-year-old Des Moines man Friday of 19 felony counts in connection with threats he made against the Boeing Co., Shell Oil and Chevron Oil.
Acting on a tip, Seattle and Tukwila Police Detectives on Friday were called to an apartment complex in the 13700 block of 56th Ave. S.… Continue reading
Incumbent Mike Miller and challenger Aaron Heide are locked in a tight race for Commissioner Position No. 4 on the Valley Medical Center Public Hospital District 1 board.
CITY OF KENT
Ballots Cast: 12,344
Mayor
Suzette Cooke: 5133, 68.80%
Jim Berrios: 2309, 30.95%
Write-in: 19, 0.25%
Workers from Boeing's Airborne Early Warning and Control team on Friday made a donation of more than 12,000 food items to the Kent Food Bank… Continue reading
Just two months after going on strike in part because of class sizes and case loads, the Kent Education Association has filed a grievance with… Continue reading
It’s been a busy year at the Kent Food Bank, as staff prepare for what is usually their busiest season.
“It’s up,” Executive Director Jeniece Choate said of the food bank’s numbers. “It’s definitely up.”
Suzette Cooke was in a celebratory mood Tuesday night, the eve of the General Election ballot count.
The incumbent Kent mayor had withstood a number of accusations by challenger Jim Berrios to easily earn a second, four-year term.
The Washington State Department of Transportation will place about 660 giant sandbags along a short stretch of Highway 167 shoulders in Kent to protect the road in case of Green River flooding.
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The repairs at the Howard Hanson Dam have helped, but the risk of flooding remains high this winter in the Green River Valley.
That was the word Thursday at an Army Corps of Engineers press conference in Seattle. The corps had encouraging words about a reduced risk of flooding - a 1-in-32 chance, thanks to measures that have been taken to aid the dam and river levees - but noted that's still a lot less than when the dam's reservoir was fully operational.
From the Everett Herald:
"Charles Porter was arrested July 20 in Seattle for investigation of indecent exposure. Police believe Porter, 42, stalked women on the freeway while he drove from his home in Kent to his job at an Everett aerospace company. He allegedly exposed himself to the women and made gestures, attempting to get them to expose themselves, too — all at freeway speeds.
Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Michael Downes on Wednesday ordered Porter held without bail pending a hearing next week to revoke a suspended sentence stemming from a 2008 conviction for indecent exposure."
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KIRO TV investigators have discovered that a man convicted on multiple felonies and burglaries is working at the Kent Senior Center. Terry Lee Alexander was once known as "the obituary burglar" for the way he carried out his crimes—he would target seniors and burgle them while they were burying their loved ones. He has since served his prison sentence and been released. KIRO has the full story.
King County crews Monday morning installed the first of 27 blue-and-white evacuation signs that will help lead evacuees to safety in the event of a major Green River flood.
The slogan over at the Kent School District’s central kitchen is “We serve education every day” and for the past 21 years Dan Johnson, the director of food and nutritional services, has lived it.
A 36-year-old Kent man and his estranged wife are facing charges of first-degree rape of a child.
Washington State Department of Transportation contractor crews will close one of two lanes on northbound State Route 167 in Kent overnight for road work.
The end-of-year reports are in and the Kent School District appears to have weathered this past year's financial storm in pretty good shape, which has prompted officials from the Kent Education Association (the teachers' union) to chastise the district for not spending money it had allotted.
