A man in his 50s told officers that he just wanted a friend, after Kent Police arrested him for investigation of third-degree theft, after he reportedly kyped a pet fish at about 1:20 p.m. Aug. 27 from a pet store in the 24100 block of Pacific Highway South.
With school construction costs continuing to escalate, the Kent School District has turned its attention to a new plan that could lead to the replacement of Covington Elementary School by September 2010.
For years cancer activists have raised millions of dollars and national awareness through Relay for Life events.
The license of a Kent radiologic technologist has been suspended by the state Department of Health.
The competitive food drive between two Kent law firms couldn’t have come at a better time for the downtown Kent Food Bank.
First Avenue shops host block party
Knitting needles are the weapon of choice for a group of Kent women fighting to help end breast cancer.
The entire historic archive of the Kent Reporter will be made freely available online.
Kent city officials have announced that Savor, a Philadelphia-based concessionaire for 35 stadiums and arenas across the nation, will handle the food and beverage services at the Kent Events Center.
Savor is the food-service division of SMG, the operator of the events center.
The T-Birds’ only home exhibition game of the preseason will be Sept. 13, at Kent Valley Ice Centre against the Portland Winter Hawks. Game time is 6 p.m.
Sprouters Northwest, Inc. of Kent, Washington is recalling its alfalfa sprout products (alfalfa sprouts, onion sprouts, and salad sprouts) because they may be linked to a recent outbreak of Salmonellosis in Oregon and Washington State.
Sign, sign, everywhere a Kent city street sign.
With more than 14,000 street signs in Kent, Tom Rusbuldt, a city street-sign maintenance worker, stays plenty busy. From stop signs to school-zone signs to street-name signs, Rusbuldt is part of a three-man crew that installs and repairs the signs for the city’s public works department.
The Kent City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday night to let Panther Lake area residents vote next year on whether to annex their area to the city.
The T-Birds' only home exhibition game of the preseason will be Sept. 13, at Kent Valley Ice Centre against the Portland Winter Hawks. Game time is 6 p.m.
In concert with Pierce County, Kitsap County, Mason County and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, King County will lift its burn ban 8 a.m. Sep. 5.
Posted 12:17 p.m. Sept. 3
About 20,000 residents in Redmond and unincorporated King County can dial 911 again from their land-line phones now that a severed fiber optic cable has been repaired.
A 24-year-old Renton man pleaded not guilty Aug. 25 in King County Superior Court to charges of second-degree assault and first-degree malicious mischief in connection with an Aug. 8 incident when Kent Police shot him as he reportedly attempted to charge the on-foot officers with his vehicle.
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a 46-year-old Des Moines man on 16 counts of Internet threats of violence and identity theft.
