The decision was easy.
Kentridge High star guard Gary Bell made it look even easier.
Trailing 51-50 with 10.7 seconds remaining Tuesday night at Kentwood High and all eyes on the Kentridge star, Bell sliced his way to the basket and kissed a short runner off glass, leading the fourth-ranked Chargers past the third-ranked Conquerors 52-51 in a South Puget Sound League North Division game.
Classical KING FM is reminding the Northwest’s young musicians of the deadline to enter its second-annual Ten Grands Young Artist Awards, Jan. 14.
KING FM’s Ten Grands Young Artist Awards celebrates the talented youth of the Northwest who are pursuing their dreams in music. Youth between the ages of 6 and 18 who are non-professional acoustic instrumentalists, vocalists, or in an ensemble, and reside in Washington, Oregon, or Idaho, are invited to submit a 5-minute YouTube video showcasing their talents.
Kentlake High School students went home early Tuesday after a wind storm knocked out power to the school.
The award-winning Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising band will perform at 3 p.m. Dec. 18 at the Kent Bluegrass Jam at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.
The Seattle-based Taproot Theatre Comedy Improv Performers and Crescendo will highlight the Kiwanis Carols and Comedy show at 6 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Kent Senior Center, 600 E. Smith St.
Boeing employee and regular Lottery player David Hopkins said he is still in shock about his $280,000 Hit 5 win, which he won Dec. 13 at a Des Moines grocery store.
(U.S. Sen. Patty Murray on Dec. 13 released the following statement about the Senate vote to extend tax cuts. Murray, who voted twice this month for tax packages to extend middle-class tax cuts, today voted to move forward with a compromise package that extends current tax rates for two years. The package extends important tax cuts for middle class Washington state families, includes an extension of our state sales tax deduction and extends unemployment insurance for 13 months for out of work Washington state workers.)
Now that the rain is gone, road crews are turning their attention to the massive cleanup that lies ahead.
In the wake of this weekend’s record rainfall, King County crews are responding to road problems on three fronts - keeping an eye on roads impacted by river flooding, responding to washouts and clogged storm drains caused by urban flooding and cleaning up debris from mudslides.
Currently more that 25 roads are closed in unincorporated areas of King County due to river flooding and slides.
A Kent couple who tried to help a homeless man and woman by taking them in during the winter holidays reportedly were robbed in their own home early Monday morning. Kent Police were called to the couple’s downtown Kent apartment at about 2:20 a.m. The couple told police that their guests, a 25-year-old man and 23-year-old woman, used a knife to threaten and rob them.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues to watch levees around western Washington and has deployed six flood fight teams for river observation and conducting emergency operations as rivers continue to rise across western Washington.
Planned water releases from a flood-control dam in the upper Green River watershed will lead to increased flows downstream – including some minor flooding in the middle reach of the Green above Auburn Sunday evening. Meanwhile, the Tolt River has reached a Phase IV flood alert level, with major flooding possible in the Carnation area.
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Heavy rain is predicted this weekend from a storm front but the Green River is one of the rivers least likely to flood, according to the National Weather Service.
Enjoy the outdoors and participate Dec. 11 in the 28th annual city of Kent Christmas Rush Fun Run and Walk.
Enjoy a Festival of Christmas concert at 5 p.m. Dec. 12 at Kent Lutheran Church, 336 Second Ave. S.
Change is sweeping across the Kentlake High girls basketball courts this winter.
“We’re very green in the post this year,” deadpanned sixth-year coach Scott Simmons. “We’re no longer big.”
Indeed. Kentlake graduated four-fifths of its starting lineup from last season, including 6-foot-3 center Riley Butler (Seattle Pacific University) and 6-foot-1 do-it-all forward Morgan Comstock (Eastern Washington University).
The coaching philosophy was as simple as it was complex.
Build for the future, but play for the present.
Certainly the two conflict in some respects, but it was an ideal, a goal, a foundation to success that Brett Drewery felt was imperative last winter, his first at the helm of the Kent-Meridian High girls basketball program.
The only direction to go this winter is up for the Kentridge High girls basketball team.
But first-year coach Bob Sandall is fully aware it’s going to take a complete buy in from everybody who steps onto the floor.
“The girls worked hard over the summer and made some pretty significant improvements,” Sandall said. “It’s looking good. The kids are buying into what we’re trying to do.”
