EventsEarth Day Fair: From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 24 at Saltwater State Park in Des Moines, the King County Housing Authority Americorps… Continue reading
EventsEarth Day Fair: From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 24 at Saltwater State Park in Des Moines, the King County Housing Authority Americorps… Continue reading
Kent City Council members and Mayor Suzette Cooke discovered there’s little they can do to immediately reduce their salaries in order to help the city… Continue reading
Kentlake seniors Tenika Eddings and Steven Fajarillo are the Kent Rotary Students of the Week, for their achievements in career and leadership programs.
Residents in Covington will have to wait even longer for a replacement to Covington Elementary School, following a decision by the Kent School Board to… Continue reading
AssaultAn argument between two brothers turned into a fight during at about 4 a.m. March 21 at an apartment in the 10600 block of Southeast… Continue reading
An apartment fire displaced two people and killed a pet cat at about 7 p.m. Sunday in the 22400 block of the Benson Highway in… Continue reading
Instructor Greg Michaels stands confident that just about anyone can learn swashbuckling - the audacious art of sword-fighting and flair.That’s why the professional actor and… Continue reading
Golfers can expect plenty of changes at the redesigned Riverbend Golf Course. It opened Wednesday.Holes No. 5, 6 and 8 are completely new. There are… Continue reading
City seeks opinionsResidents can help shape the future of Kent city parks by filling out a parks survey. The 17-question survey is online at www.kentwaparks.com.… Continue reading
With half of the school year behind them, members of the Kent School Board on March 25 listened to budget projections for the remainder of this year before hearing about the potential cuts for next year.
It’s been 23 years since Ladan Jacobs escaped from Iran, but the memories are fresh enough that even today her eyes fill with tears as she recounts the story.
As a fourth-generation member of the Baha’i faith, a religion founded in Iran in the 1840s and based on the commonality of all humanity, Jacobs was unable to openly practice her faith after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
A 25-year-old Renton man was shot in the leg at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Indigo Springs Apartments, 11101 S.E.… Continue reading
Kent is the new home of yet another Seattle sports team.The Seattle Majestics of the Independent Women's Football League, will play four games this season… Continue reading
The Spokane Chiefs defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 5-3 Saturday night at Veterans Memorial Arena in Game 5 of their first round playoff series.
Linea Shockley and Derek Van Clement of Kentridge High School have been named the March Fine Arts/performing Arts students of the month by the Rotary… Continue reading
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke and two other city officials lobbied heavily before Washington senators and congress members recently in Washington, D.C., in a bid for… Continue reading
Under a hypothetical worst-case budget scenario in which the Kent School District is required to find nearly $15 million in its budget, nearly 90 teachers, 14 administrators and 35 classified staff members could lose their jobs, according to recommendations made Tuesday to the Kent School Board.
Kent resident Margaret Mathai will be honored March 26 by the American Red Cross Serving King & Kitsap Counties as a 2009 “Everyday Hero.”
Ken Gold hoped his lost cat would show up one day. But for nine months he hadn’t heard anything.
Good news finally came to Gold, formerly a resident University Place and now living in Arizona, after someone dropped a stray cat off in February at the Kent Animal Shelter.
