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Emerald Downs announces 70-day live racing season for 2018

Emerald Downs announces 70-day live racing season for 2018

Emerald Downs Racetrack and Casino has announced a 70-day live racing season in 2018, with opening day Sunday, April 22 and continuing through Sunday, Sept.… Continue reading

Emerald Downs announces 70-day live racing season for 2018
Make Veterans Day a way of life | As I See It

Make Veterans Day a way of life | As I See It

What is a veteran? Oh, I know what it is supposed to be, someone who has served in the military, one branch or another, for… Continue reading

Make Veterans Day a way of life | As I See It
Attending the breakfast were, from left, Auburn Chief of Police Bob Lee; Federal Way Police Chief Andy Hwang; King County Council member Pete von Reichbauer; Federal Way Public Schools Superintendent Tammy Campbell; Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas; and Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell. COURTESY PHOTO

Increase of juvenile violence brings police chiefs to Good Eggs breakfast meeting

Police chiefs from Auburn, Kent and Federal Way discussed methods to address growing juvenile gang and gun violence in their communities at the recent Good… Continue reading

Attending the breakfast were, from left, Auburn Chief of Police Bob Lee; Federal Way Police Chief Andy Hwang; King County Council member Pete von Reichbauer; Federal Way Public Schools Superintendent Tammy Campbell; Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas; and Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell. COURTESY PHOTO
Pain from the path of a drowsy driver’s crash still hurts today | Guest op

Pain from the path of a drowsy driver’s crash still hurts today | Guest op

Eleven years ago, a drowsy-driving car wreck left me with injuries that still challenge me today. In the accident, my ankle was crushed so badly… Continue reading

Pain from the path of a drowsy driver’s crash still hurts today | Guest op
Cookie turns 100

Cookie turns 100

Longtime Kent resident Cookie Hayes recently celebrated her 100th birthday with family and friends. Born to C.B. and Molly Cook in Kent on Oct. 2,… Continue reading

Cookie turns 100

Democrats enjoying the moment, for now | The Petri Dish

Democrats went to bed Tuesday night confidently declaring their party will control the levers of legislating in state government by the end of the month.… Continue reading

Museum to honor veterans with music and ceremony

Museum to honor veterans with music and ceremony

The Museum of Flight honors America’s Veterans with music, ceremonies and a new exhibit featuring the Congressional Medal of Honor on Veterans Day. The event… Continue reading

Museum to honor veterans with music and ceremony
Brown Bear Car Wash: saluting veterans and service military with free car washes

Brown Bear Car Wash: saluting veterans and service military with free car washes

Brown Bear offers free “Beary Clean” car washes at 24 tunnel wash area locations to current or former members of the military on Veteran’s Day… Continue reading

Brown Bear Car Wash: saluting veterans and service military with free car washes
Foster Farms donates 14,400 pounds of turkey to Northwest Harvest’s Kent warehouse

Foster Farms donates 14,400 pounds of turkey to Northwest Harvest’s Kent warehouse

Foster Farms is bringing the comfort of a full Thanksgiving meal to thousands of Washington families through a donation of more than 14,400 pounds of… Continue reading

Foster Farms donates 14,400 pounds of turkey to Northwest Harvest’s Kent warehouse

Save the land for the birds

The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge is once again under attack by the current administration. Congress is apparently trying to open up the refuge to drilling… Continue reading

Veterans Day ceremony set for Saar Pioneer Cemetery

The public is invited to the annual Veterans Day ceremony at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11 at the Saar Pioneer Cemetery, 9100 S. 212th St.,… Continue reading

Tahoma National Cemetery presents Veterans Day ceremony

The 20th Veterans Day Program at Tahoma National Cemetery on Saturday celebrates and honors all military members who served, past and present. This year’s theme… Continue reading

Eight community members will help in Highline College presidential search

Eight members of the South King County community have agreed to serve on a subcommittee to help in the search to replace Jack Bermingham, who… Continue reading

Auburn’s Veterans Day program continues proud tradition

Auburn’s Veterans Day program continues proud tradition

Flags, families and tens of thousands of spectators will line Main Street for the 52st annual event at 11 a.m. Saturday

Auburn’s Veterans Day program continues proud tradition

Complex McCleary Rubik’s Cube testing lawmakers | The Petri Dish

Any day now lawmakers will reveal how they solved the McCleary Rubik’s Cube. Democratic and Republican lawmakers have spent months twisting and turning the major… Continue reading

Voters to decide if state’s new laws measure up | The Petri Dish

Voters never got a chance to try to overturn new laws increasing the state property tax next year and imposing a sales tax on bottled… Continue reading

End lawmakers’ exemption from public records law | Our Corner

By The Herald Editorial Board Recall earlier this summer when the Legislature passed its operating budget – as well as its latest spending plan to… Continue reading

American Lung Association warns of health harms from breathing smoky air

More than 25 wildfires continue to burn throughout the Pacific Northwest blanketing skies with smoke. The smoke from these fires along with stagnant weather conditions… Continue reading

King County Executive Constantine outlines third-term agenda

King County Executive Constantine outlines third-term agenda

With his Best Run Government reform efforts providing the foundation of strong and effective regional leadership, King County Executive Dow Constantine will focus on a… Continue reading

King County Executive Constantine outlines third-term agenda
City of Kent seeks volunteers for Bicycle Advisory Board

City of Kent seeks volunteers for Bicycle Advisory Board

The city of Kent needs residents to volunteer to serve on the Bicycle Advisory Board. The 11-member board meets the last Monday of each month… Continue reading

City of Kent seeks volunteers for Bicycle Advisory Board