Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke swore in Ken Thomas as the Kent Police chief at the City Council meeting Tuesday at City Hall.
In a continuing effort to keep local students safe during the school day, the Kent Police Department has partnered with the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission to purchase and install flashing signals for school zones located throughout the city.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke will swear in Ken Thomas as the Kent Police chief at the City Council meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
The Kentlake High gymnastics team is finally getting healthy.
And last week at the All-City meet, that good health showed for the Falcons.
Behind the usual standout performances by Katie Steckler and Lynnsey Thielman along with the emergence of sophomore Melissa Alberts, the Falcons cruised to a season-high 164.25 points en route to putting away Kentridge, Kentwood and Kent-Meridian in a four-team meet at Kentwood High Wednesday, Jan. 26.
The Kent Predators Indoor Football League team has signed two former NFL wide receivers to its roster.
Aaron Straiten and Maurice Bryant will be joining the Predators for the team's second season. The team is based out of the Kent ShoWare Center.
A sellout crowd of 6,158 at the Seattle Thunderbirds game Saturday night in Kent set a record for the most people at a ShoWare Center hockey game.
An adult and two young children were displaced after a Kent fire at about 11 a.m. Monday at an apartment complex in the 2500 block of South 272nd Street on the West Hill.
A 40-year-old Kent man died Sunday after he was injured as a passenger in a single-car crash eastbound on Interstate 90, about 16 miles west of Ellensburg.
A Kent resident photographed a suspicious car in his East Hill neighborhood that helped Kent Police arrest a 35-year-old man for investigation of residential burglary.
Kent Police will add extra drunk driving patrols Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 6, as part of the Target Zero crackdown in King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties to arrest drivers who have been celebrating with too much alcohol.
The Seattle Thunderbirds fell to the Everett Silvertips 2-1 on Sunday evening at the ShoWare Center.
Everett (21-23-3-4) opened the scoring on the power-play at 11:50 of the first period on Ryan Murray's third goal of the season. Ryan Harrison and Brennan Yadlowski assisted on the goal.
The first period ended with the Silvertips maintaining their 1-0 lead. Shots were even 9-9 through 20 minutes of play.
The Les Schwab Shootout in Kent showcased boys and girls basketball from Kentlake, Kent-Meridian, Kentridge, and Kentwood Jan. 28 at the Kent ShoWare Center. Kentlake girls beat Kent-Meridian 47-45; Kentlake boys beat Kent-Meridian 56-53; Kentwood girls beat Kentridge 66-22; and Kentridge boys beat Kentwood 61-54.
Students and families looking for information about colleges and universities can attend this one-stop shopping event from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 9 at Kentwood High School. Universities and colleges from the Puget Sound, Washington State, and across the country are expected to attend.
The Everett Silvertips defeated the Seattle Thunderbirds 7-0 Jan. 28 at the Comcast Arena in Everett.
Everett took a 1-0 lead at 10:24 of the first period on a goal by Tyler Maxwell. Parker Stanfield and Ryan Murray had the assists.
The Silvertips went in front 2-0 at 12:10 of the first on a power-play goal from Clayton Cumiskey. Scott MacDonald had the only assist on the goal.
He has played second fiddle to his star teammate all season long.
Friday night under the ShoWare Center spotlight, Kentridge High’s Brendan Westendorf took center stage.
Westendorf, a mild mannered 6-foot-4 senior forward, went off for a game-high 23 points, leading the fourth-ranked Kentridge High boys basketball team past No. 5 Kentwood 61-54 in the featured game of the Les Schwab Kent Shootout at the ShoWare Center.
This was one the Kentlake High girls basketball team desperately needed.
It also was one the Falcons almost gave away at the end.
Jessica Barnes poured in 13 points and Alyssa Simonson added 11 as Kentlake held off Kent-Meridian 47-45 at the ShoWare Center in the Les Schwab Kent Shootout.
The Kentlake High boys basketball team needed a big-time performance Friday night at the ShoWare Center to stay in the playoff hunt.
Senior forward Sean Hartnett provided exactly that, scoring a season-high 24 points to lift the Falcons past Kent-Meridian 56-53 in the Les Scwhab Kent Shootout. The Falcons (5-7 in league, 8-8 overall) were in dire need of a performance exactly like the one Harnett served up as they remain on the outside looking in on the playoff race.
Momentum is on the side of the Kentwood High girls basketball team.
Behind their usual three-pronged attack of Kylie Huerta, Liz Mills and Courtney Johnson, the Conquerors dispatched Kentridge 66-22 Friday night at the ShoWare Center in the Les Schwab Kent Shootout.
Mills delivered a team-high 16 points, Huerta added 15 and Johnson powered her way to 13.
Thanks to major deficits in federal and state funds, the Kent School District could be shoring up a budget gap of more than $16 million during the 2011-12 school year.
Traditional Chinese dance, music, games, arts and food are part of the celebration of the Year of the Rabbit at The Great Wall Mall Cultural Arts Festival's 2011 Chinese New Year Festival from 1-5:30 p.m. Feb. 5 in Kent.
