Brian Gallego, a Green River Community College graduate and University of Washington student, displays his art at a personal art show hosted by Kona Kai coffee.
Valley RV Supercenter has a new location in Kent. The company moved to its new 5 1/2-acre location in order to house its service and sales departments under one roof.
The money from a 2006 bond referendum intended to pay for the reconstruction of a Kent School District elementary school is being reallocated to fund school surveillance cameras, school lockdown technology and other district projects.
It wasn't long ago when Lizzie Reid was sitting in a similar seat at the Washington Corrections Center for Women near Purdy, listening to the same testimonies. The last of the speakers, Reid knows the prisoners have heard all the statistics before, and many times that's not enough to convince them to turn their lives around.
While everyone else strutted in their parachute pants or chased after the ghosts in Pac Man, Joselito Castillo was having a different '80s experience that wasn't so tubular.
Joe Wainhouse grew up in a baseball family. He occasionally traveled on the road with his dad, Dave Wainhouse, a former big league pitcher in the 1990s for Seattle, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Colorado and St. Louis and now pitching coach at Seattle University.
About two-thirds of the way up Seattle's Columbia Center, Kent firefighter Caitlin Corey started losing momentum. "There was nothing to think about except what's inside your head and (to) step, step, step," she said. All the preparation, training and strategy in the world could only take her so far. She needed motivation. She needed a second wind. Looking up ahead of her, she got just that.
The Kent School District is offering paid classes for preschool teachers. This eight-session series aims "to increase the preschool teacher's skills and strategies in teaching early literacy skills," said Merri Rieger, chief academic officer for the school district.
The Kent Association of Educational Office Professionals (KAEOP) is seeking higher pay alongside other requests while negotiating a new contract with the Kent School District.
Kent's School District chief academic officer, Merri Rieger, is one of six finalists for the Renton School District's superintendent position.
They're funny, Youtube famous and from the East Hill. They're The Fung Brothers, a dynamic duo made up of locally grown David and Andrew Fung who professionally direct, film and edit original videos on Youtube.com.
By day, Nicolle McDowell is a math teacher and yearbook advisor at Mattson Middle School. By night, the Kent teacher leaves sweet "Nicolle" behind and embodies her alter ego, Narca-Lexie, a bruising blocker for the Toxic 253 roller derby team. McDowell routinely makes the evening drive from her Covington home to the Tacoma skating rink, shedding formal wear to don a helmet, pads and skates.
Nikole Cruz, a senior at Kent-Meridian High School, was invited to the Philippines Women's National Team soccer camp in Corona, Calif.
Tiffany Janibagian decided that if she were to start her own business, she'd better do her research. Scanning websites, anyone could have missed the small, pink ribbon in the corner of the screen – but not Janibagian.
The City of Kent, the Kent Arts Commission, the Kent Downtown Partnership, Kent Station, and the Kent School District present the Kent Student Art Walk from March 11-22 to celebrate National Youth Art Month.
In concordance with the Heathy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed a new rule that would regulate snacks sold outside of regular school meal programs.
After weeks of debate, the King County Flood Control District Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve the $17 million Kent proposal to fix a Green River levee.
Kent native Carson Henley is a finalist in the Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter 2 competition. Years ago at Kentlake High School, Henley thought it was "just so uncool" that his mom made him take piano lessons. Looking back, he couldn't be more grateful.
That evening, Danny Mumaugh was supposedly doing homework. Walking upstairs to check in on him at their Centennial, Colo., home, his dad discovered him watching hockey highlights online. But Mumaugh's dad just couldn't get upset.
Seattle University faces CSU Bakersfield in the first game between Division I men's basketball programs at the ShoWare Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6.
