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Kentridge High School science teacher Madonna Brinkmann participates in a lab experiment during the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Science Education Partnership workshop last week. Brinkmann is one of about 30 area teachers to participate in the workshop

Science teachers take their work to the lab

Two Kent teachers are among approximately 30 area science educators who spent part of their summer vacation learning ways to get students more excited about science.

  • Jul 29, 2008
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Kentridge High School science teacher Madonna Brinkmann participates in a lab experiment during the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Science Education Partnership workshop last week. Brinkmann is one of about 30 area teachers to participate in the workshop

Street racing in Kent: Police bust 80

Kent Police and the Washington State Patrol cited 80 people for investigation of trespassing during a street-racing bust at about 12:10 a.m. Saturday at a parking lot of a business in the 20300 block of 59th Place South.

  • Jul 29, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Marilynn McAdoo

Kent Historical Museum: It’s time to get social for summer

The Kent Historical Museum will invite residents for a blast from the past Aug. 9 at its sixth-annual Antique Automobile Show & Ice Cream Social.

  • Jul 26, 2008
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Marilynn McAdoo
Anton Leof

iQ Academy offers Kent schooling whenever, wherever

Kent students in grades 7-12 will have an another alternative to brick-and-mortar classrooms come next school year.

  • Jul 24, 2008
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Anton Leof

Kent: Man stabbed in botched robbery, drives self to hospital

A man drove himself to the hospital July 8 after he sustained a stab wound to the chest when two men reportedly attempted to rob him at about 1 a.m. at a Kent store parking lot in the 25600 block of 104th Avenue Southeast.

Jennifer Harrell poses in the window of a greenhouse at the city’s nursery

Nursery manager Harrell keeps Kent in the green

When Jennifer Harrell plants a tree, birds pay attention.

Jennifer Harrell poses in the window of a greenhouse at the city’s nursery
Work crews were out in force Tuesday doing repair work to the flood-control levee near the Riverbend Golf Course in Kent. A great deal more work needs to be done on levees throughout the Green River Valley

Kent, county tackle levee-repair work

The Green River Valley needs the river to run through it, not over it.

Work crews were out in force Tuesday doing repair work to the flood-control levee near the Riverbend Golf Course in Kent. A great deal more work needs to be done on levees throughout the Green River Valley
Andrew Ciarrocchi

Westfield Southcenter to celebrate expansion Friday

A shopping destination for south King County has just gotten bigger. A lot bigger. Westfield Southcenter, a major retail complex in Tukwila, will celebrate completion of its $240 million expansion project Friday. The grand opening will acquaint visitors with a longtime shopping center that has expanded by 400,000 square feet and 75 new specialty shops.

  • Jul 22, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Andrew Ciarrocchi

Briefly

Residents will be able to drop off hazardous household waste items 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday at the parking lot of the East Hill Fred Meyer store, 10201 S.E. 240th St.

  • Jul 22, 2008
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An unidentified fifth-grader and father watch a Tacoma Rainiers baseball game this spring. Part of the Rainiers All-Star Student Program

Kent students have a ball with schoolwork

Take me out to the ball game?

  • Jul 22, 2008
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An unidentified fifth-grader and father watch a Tacoma Rainiers baseball game this spring. Part of the Rainiers All-Star Student Program
Left to right: Cheryl Hanna

National Night Out is Aug. 5

Neighborhoods are invited to participate Aug. 5 in the City of Kent’s National Night Out program, designed to fight crime.

  • Jul 22, 2008
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Left to right: Cheryl Hanna

Blotter: Man sustains knife wound to chest

A man drove himself to the hospital July 8 after he sustained a stab wound to the chest when two men reportedly attempted to rob him at about 1 a.m. at a Kent store parking lot in the 25600 block of 104th Avenue Southeast.

King County enacts summertime burn restriction

In concert with Pierce County, Kitsap County, Mason County and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, King County called a Phase 1 burn ban.

  • Jul 22, 2008
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Edward E. Cobb

Charge filed in July 12 Kent shooting death

The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed a first-degree murder charge Friday against an 18-year-old Seattle man in connection with the shooting death of a Renton teenager July 12 at a Kent fast-food restaurant.

Edward E. Cobb

A bigger court for Kent?

City and King County officials continue to struggle with the lack of court space at the Aukeen District Court building they share on Central Avenue South.

Kent Historical Museum Curator Linda Wagner shows off the cylindrical predecessor to the record from an early Thomas Edison phonograph.

Old technology gets new spin at Kent Historical Museum

Did you know Thomas Edison’s cylinder phonograph could be used to play and record sound? And that magnetic tape-recording technology was actually taken from the Germans after World War II?

  • Jul 21, 2008
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Kent Historical Museum Curator Linda Wagner shows off the cylindrical predecessor to the record from an early Thomas Edison phonograph.
Mayor Suzette Cooke gets a chuckle as Cornucopia Days 2007 queen Erin Sheldon presents the 2008 queen Nicole Oliver with her crown during Friday’s coronation.

Kent’s Cornucopia Days crowns its new queen

What does royalty do the night before a coronation? Well, if the royalty is Miss Cornucopia 2008, the answer is: help perform surgeries.

  • Jul 21, 2008
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Mayor Suzette Cooke gets a chuckle as Cornucopia Days 2007 queen Erin Sheldon presents the 2008 queen Nicole Oliver with her crown during Friday’s coronation.
Mill Creek Middle School teacher James Frame acknowledges the work of his students at their first-ever mock Congressional hearings June 9 at the school.

Congressional contest put Mill Creek Middle School students through their paces

On a warm June evening when most of their classmates were out in the sunshine, a group of students was hunkered down at a table, contemplating the finer points of a document that most adults don’t think about on a daily basis.

Mill Creek Middle School teacher James Frame acknowledges the work of his students at their first-ever mock Congressional hearings June 9 at the school.

Kent Events Center vote a squeaker; city council approves $5.9M budget increase

After a heated debate, the Kent City Council voted 4-3 on Tuesday night to approve a $5.9 million budget increase for the Kent Events Center.

Ellen Bond

Court clerk Ellen Bond keeps the job real, enjoys her work

No two court cases are the same to Ellen Bond. Despite the hundreds of cases Bond has heard in 14 years as a clerk for Kent Municipal Court, the excitement remains. “I like the court environment,” Bond said Tuesday, sitting in an empty jury room at the court on Central Avenue South. “You could do the same type of hearing and it’s never the same. It’s different every day. It’s exciting.”

Ellen Bond