How would you cut the Kent School District budget?
That was the $6-$12 million question district residents have been pondering over the last week, following a move by the Kent School Board to put the district's budget crisis into a real-life exercise, with an online budget survey.
Disneyland is a happier place, since my departure last week from Southern California.
I don't know how many of you have opted to go to God's Largest Amusement Park as adults, but all I can say is that it will be a long time before I want to see another Mickey Mouse.
Especially a Mickey Mouse with a price tag stuck to it.
For Trudy Schug, the gut-check moment came when, as a P.E. teacher in the Kent School District, she gave a pair of athletic shoes to one of her students.
The Kent School District is facing an economic reality that one of its top financial officials is calling “unprecedented.”
Health-care reform has been a hot-button topic in past weeks, since President Obama's health-care plan -- or at least an altered version of it - survived a major vetting process with federal lawmakers.
Why go to the Kent Chamber of Commerce’s Annual President’s Gala?
Why indeed.
“It’s the biggest night we have,” said chamber Executive Director Andrea Keikkala of the April 3 black-tie affair at the Kent ShoWare Center.
Expect a complete legislative roundup at the Kent Chamber of Commerce's April Membership Luncheon April 7 at the Meridian Valley Country Club.
State Attorney General Rob McKenna, among the high-profile Republican opponents of recent national health-care reform legislation passed last week, is the guest of honor Saturday at a GOP Caucus in Kent.
Teenagers aren’t supposed to die.
They’re especially not supposed to die like this.
Phoebe Prince only had two strikes against her, and if you were a normal person, they were not strikes at all.
The Kent-Meridian High School gym project has survived a round of project delays, and will be funded this year, along with a number of other capital projects in the Kent School District.
A group of Kent students have firsthand knowledge of what it’s like to be in the publishing industry.
Heartburn, deadlines and all.
A special meeting of the Kent School District Board of Directors takes place 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Boardroom of the Administration Center, located at 12033 S.E. 256th St., Kent, Washington. The purpose of the meeting is a public hearing on facilities.
Six months may not seem like a long time, but take it from the standpoint of a library drop box.
Six months is a long time for the books to pile up.
That's probably the greatest challenge staff at the Kent Regional Library are dealing with at this point, given that the bustling library was closed that long for a major renovation project.
The Airways Brewing Co. opened its doors for business March 11, from its location at 6644 S. 196th St., No. T-100, in the West Valley Business Park, at the corner of 196th and West Valley Highway.
The Seattle Majestics are ready for battle.
Now entering their second season in Kent, the women’s tackle football team is having its first event of the season: A team scrimmage Saturday.
This week at the Kent Reporter, we had a new wrinkle in how we cover professional sports.
The Predators, Kent’s first pro football team, had its home opener last week at the ShoWare Center.
The Seattle Majestics women's tackle football team will be having their Red/Black Scrimmage 7 p.m. March 20 at their home field - Kent-Meridian High School's French Field.
A collection of Kent School District elementaries could be seeing boundary changes, due to fluctuations in their student populations.
A citizens’ board had its first meeting about that issue Monday at the Kent School District office, 12033 S.E. 256th St
From her earliest school days, Samantha Rossbach knew she loved to create art.
"In first grade, we had to write journal entries, and I would scribble and try to make a picture out of it," the Kent teenager said, noting she'd been drawing "forever."
A collection of Kent School District elementaries could be seeing boundary changes, due to fluctuations in their student populations.
