The Kent Education Association goes to the Sept. 1 press conference by Kent Schools chief Edward Lee Vargas, announcing the district's legal steps against the… Continue reading
Excitement. Energy. Expectations.Take your pick. All three are spilling out of the Kent-Meridian High gymnasium these days.Excitement, because after nearly 10 months of anticipation, the… Continue reading
The message is succinct and clear.Don’t count out the Kentwood High volleyball team.On paper, some might look past the Conquerors this fall. After all, they… Continue reading
SPSL NORTH: AT A GLANCE• Favorites: Kentwood, Auburn Riverside.• Contenders: Kentlake, Kent-Meridian.• Look out for: Kentridge.• Notable: Kentwood enters the season on a 51-match SPSL… Continue reading
The Kent School District's complaint and request for an injunction to end the Kent Education Association's week-long strike will take place at 3 p.m. today… Continue reading
First of all, I would like to acknowledge the difficult situation that everyone on both sides of the strike have to face and deal with.… Continue reading
Please know that the district’s bargaining team has negotiated in good faith since the bargaining process began in April. We did not want to see… Continue reading
Amen for writer Walter Backstrom.Hopefully my thoughts might help parents to think and enable children and teens to cooperate. Children and teens should not carry… Continue reading
I have a difficult time sympathizing with the Kent teachers and their plea for higher pay and less workload.This is especially true at this time… Continue reading
Picket signs,apparently prepared on school property, say "no contract, no school." Of course the teachers voted to strike - it is a win, win, win… Continue reading
I am a 2003 graduate of the Washington state public school system (Tacoma and White River districts, respectively), now living and working in Portland, Oregon.… Continue reading
As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus prepares for its opening-night performance at the ShoWare Center Thursday, the animal-rights group PETA will show… Continue reading
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus rolled into town Sept. 2, and gave circus fans an exciting glimpse of their elephants and other… Continue reading
Sunday began with negotiations between the Kent Education Association and the school district, which failed to resolve the teachers’ strike.
Animals from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus have just disembarked from a train in Renton. The city of Kent is warning of traffic backups on the West Valley Highway for about the next hour.
The Seattle Thunderbirds will unveil their new Reebok Edge Jerseys 10 a.m. Sept. 9, at the ShoWare Center in an event open to the public."We… Continue reading
Everything is being put on the line for the Kentlake High football team this fall.Figuratively and literally.And if you’re in the Kentlake camp these days,… Continue reading
Out with the old, in with the new. That seems to be the theme these days on the Kentridge High football field, where the Chargers… Continue reading
To preface my comment let me say that I have lived and supported the Kent schools since 1964. I have raised three children in the… Continue reading
See the culmination of the Aug. 26 strike vote by the Kent Education Association. A total of 86 percent of the 1,500 teachers in attendance voted in favor of going on strike.
