Claude French, Owen Taylor and Morris “Red” Badgro are not household names to most Kent residents.
But the names soon become familiar after a tour of the Kent football history exhibit at the Kent Historical Museum. The exhibit is open from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday through June 18.
The Kent City Council approved an ordinance May 4 to allow a proposed East Hill commercial development on the southern edge of town.
Kent vehicle owners might be charged an annual $10 to $20 vehicle license registration fee as the City Council tries to come up with new ways to fund city street projects.
Kent city officials have decided to keep Safe Havens, the Kent-based domestic-violence visitation and exchange center, open for at least the rest of year and will continue to pursue a long-term operator for the facility.
The financial woes for the ShoWare Center in Kent continued in the first three months of this year.
"We are $84,000 in the hole," said Patrick McClusky, ShoWare finance director, at a Thursday meeting of the Public Facilities District board.
There were a few doubts in Pam Cressey's mind about whether her Kentlake High School drama club students could make the characters in the musical "South Pacific" seem real.
But the students quickly erased those doubts after the opening weekend of shows.
The count of ballots through May 4 shows voters in Kent, King County Fire District 37 and Covington are overwhelming approving Proposition No. 1 to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
Safe Havens, the Kent-based domestic violence visitation and exchange center, will close for at least one week as Kent city officials decide whether enough private donations have come in to keep the facility going for the rest of the year.
More than 200 Waste Management garbage haulers voted May 2 to ratify a new five-year contract between Teamsters Local 174 and Waste Management.
Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 negotiators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday night on a new five-year contract for garbage haulers.
Negotiators met for 15 hours on Monday and continued bargaining talks on Tuesday before reaching agreement on a new contract. A federal mediator assisted with the talks.
Annie Guthrie and her father, folk singer Arlo Guthrie, were unsure what to expect, touring with more than a dozen family members for several months across the nation.
The Guthrie family performs at 8 p.m. May 1 at the ShoWare Center in Kent, one of their final stops as the tour wraps up in late May. Annie Guthrie looked back at life on the road over the last several months.
Voters in Kent, King County Fire District 37 and Covington are overwhelming approving Proposition No. 1 to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
After the first count of ballots Tuesday night, Proposition No. 1 had received 10,859 (72.96 percent) yes votes and 4,025 (27.04 percent) no votes, according to the King County Elections officials. Ballots had to be postmarked by April 27 to count in the election.
Contract talks for garbage haulers resumed Tuesday between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 negotiators after a 15-hour bargaining session on Monday.
The session lasted until after 1 a.m. Tuesday, said Susan Robinson, director of public sector services for Waste Management, in an e-mail Tuesday to Kent city officials.
Negotiators from Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 were to meet Monday morning with a federal mediator in an effort to resolve the contract dispute between the company and garbage haulers.
Brenda Jacober looked out the window of her first-floor city clerk's office at Kent City Hall and thought back to when she first took a part-time job with the city in 1975.
"I looked around and thought it would be a nice place to spend my days," said Jacober during an interview earlier this month at her office. "Little did I know I'd spend a lot of them."
A 24-year-old Kent man was killed when he crashed his car into a home at about 12:24 a.m. Thursday in the 28200 block of 144th Avenue Southeast on the East Hill of Kent.
A major commercial development planned for the East Hill on the southern edge of Kent took another step forward this week.
The audience could get a bit confused when Aaron and Nick Johnson take the stage during Kentridge High School's production of "The Sound of Music."
Waste Management will not pick up any garbage or recyclables Thursday at Kent commercial and multi-family customers because of the strike Wednesday by Teamsters Local 174 garbage haulers.
Seven members of the Kent Senior Activity Center let a City Council committee know Tuesday that they oppose the proposed cuts to the lunch subsidy program at the facility.
