Organize a show and they will come.
Kent's first community-wide talent show was a bona fide success last week, drawing a healthy crowd and a full slate of performers - with talents that many in Kent probably didn't know they had.
The first-ever Kent's Got Talent Jan. 29 drew more than 140 audience members to the Kent Senior Activity Center.
Shawn David Gulseth pleaded not guilty Thursday in King County Superior Court in Kent to a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the Dec. 21 stabbing death of his Kent girlfriend at her apartment.
Duane Hamamura, for more than three decades one of the most prominent equine photographers in the state, died suddenly Saturday evening at home of heart failure.
Hamamura, a lifelong Auburn resident, was 57 years old.
A 1971 graduate of Auburn High School who studied photography at Green River Community College, Hamamura was a longtime photographer at the Valley Daily News in Kent, where he was a perennial award-winning photographer, according to colleague Mark Klaas, editor of the Auburn Reporter. Hamamura also worked as a photographer at the old Auburn Globe and as a photo technician for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Diane DeMeerleer used to love living in The Lakes neighborhood of Kent, along the Green River close to a popular walking and biking trail that stretches for miles through the city.
But that love has faded, ever since a heavy rainstorm in 2009 damaged an embankment next to the Howard Hanson Dam and raised the threat of flooding. Kent city officials placed giant sandbags atop the Green River Trail, and they will remain there until the dam is fully operational after repairs, probably by the end of 2012. Sandbags also surround the 26-unit condominium complex where DeMeerleer lives.
A Kent man remained in a King County jail in Seattle Wednesday with a bail of $80,000 after he had two alcohol-related bookings within three days last month as well as two driving under the influence arrests in the last eight months.
To those who have ever doubted there was a Holocaust, Magda Schaloum has news for them.
It happened.
Every terror, every faded photograph, every recollection whispered in a tear-roughened voice.
“Unfortunately, even today there are people who say the Holocaust never happened,” said Schaloum, now in her 80s,but buoyant with life.
To describe those years of dehumanizing treatment and fear is her way to countering the lies that the Holocaust never was.
“I think it is my obligation,” she told the gymnasium of
A developer might finally take over the half-built parking garage in downtown Kent to construct a mixed-use development that could include apartments, a hotel, and maybe office and retail space.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke revealed the upbeat news about the project during her sixth annual State of the City address Wednesday at the Kent Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon at the ShoWare Center second-floor banquet room.
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 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 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.
State Rep. Dave Upthegrove acknowledges there’s a lot of energy in Olympia focused on fixing the huge gap in state spending.
But even so, the Des Moines-based legislator said there are a number of local projects he’s putting the focus on this session.
“There’s lots of focus on the budget,” said the state rep., now in his fourth term. But, “I kind of spend time on items that are big tickets to our community.”
It may not feel like a battle won, but for the Kent business community, a meeting Monday at Kent City Hall may have felt at least like a hurdle cleared.
The meeting, attended by city staff, local business people and the City Council’s Economic & Community Development Committee, yielded a couple of results that could generate a future Council decision on a sticky topic: the city’s traffic-impact fees.
