They opened the season with a bang.
If the Kentwood High girls track and field team can finish it that way, the Conquerors very likely will have made school history.
“The girls track team is the only team at Kentwood that has never won a league title,” explained coach Steve Roche. “I have pointed that out to them.”
The Kent-Meridian High School Multicultural Fair April 2 drew enthusiastic crowds, as the school's variety of cultural clubs demonstrated the clothing and dance steps of their native cultures.
Erik Linder, 9, right, and Richkie Taylor, 9, performed at the Kent Senior Activity Center during the spring luncheon on Friday, March 19.
Have some ideas about improving Kent City parks? Then attend a Green Kent Partnership meeting from 5:30-6:30 p.m. April 8 at Kent City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.
One of the finest opportunities I ever had as an officer was to work in schools.
DESCRIPTION: Snoqualmie Pass is open eastbound. Traction tires are advised, oversized vehicles are prohibited in both directions of travel.
LOCATION: Eastbound I-90 at milepost 47 five miles west of the summit.
LOCATION: Eastbound I-90 at milepost 47, five miles west of the summit
START: April 8, 2010, 11:00 a.m.
After waiting nearly three years for a new developer to come forward, Kent City Council members voted unanimously April 6 to give the mayor and city attorney authority to begin foreclosure proceedings on the unfinished parking garage at Fourth Avenue and West Smith Street.
He’s trying to keep things in perspective.
But it’s hard to fault Kent-Meridian track and field coach Ernie Ammons if he comes off as sounding just a bit giddy these days. The fact is, Ammons is excited. And understandably so as Kent-Meridian is fielding possibly its finest boys track and field team of the decade. A team that is as deep as it is talented.
I just want to say thank you to Laura Pierce for her column on bullying ("Cost of bullying? A teenager's life," April 2 Kent Reporter.) We really need to talk more and let kids know it is not right to bully anyone.
Mrs. Obama is complaining about how many times a day or night the president and Oprah converse on the phone or e-mail.
It is really a source of concern that Oprah and Obama are spending so much time communicating to each other.
If the garbage/recycle haulers could retrofit their trucks to pick up both garbage and recyclable items in the same trip, it would certainly minimize the impact to our streets, fuel consumption, noise, and thus, and save another city use fee for them, and hopefully for Kent citizens and customers.
A 36-year-old Kent woman was killed in a two-vehicle collision at about 5:24 p.m. Monday on southbound Highway 167 near South 277th Street in Auburn.
A 62-year-old Olympia man crashed while racing a motorcycle Sunday at Pacific Raceways, just east of Kent. The man later died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Glenn Walrond knows the South Puget Sound League North Division is a stacked deck this spring in regards to the boys soccer race.
Kentwood's AUSTIN VOTH, Kentridge's STETSON OLSON, Kentridge's DANIELLE ORVELLA, Kent-Meridian's ABU KAMARA, Kentlake's NIKOLE WEBER
The Kent Lions and 12 other Lions clubs from the region have scheduled their sixth-annual Special Needs Youth Fishing Derby for April 24 at the Auburn Mill Pond Park, at 600 Oravetz Road.
Chopping back the brush: Cris LeCompte chops down a blackberry bush at the site for the new off leash dog park next to Morrill Meadows Park, Saturday, March 27.
The city of Kent is looking for volunteers for two work parties at city parks.
The city needs help pulling weeds, clearing trails, planting trees or bushes and other chores from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday April 17 and April 24.
The Kent Fire Department will conduct fire training exercises from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 13-16 at 15328 S.E. 280th St., and 15406 S.E. 280th St
Each spring Kent School District elementary schools invite next year’s kindergartners and their families to their boundary school "Kindergarten Roundup."
