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.
The financial troubles continue for the ShoWare Center in Kent as the 2-year-old arena lost money for the second consecutive year in 2010.
King County Sheriff's Office divers recovered the body of a 23-year-old Federal Way man at about 7 a.m. Thursday in Star Lake, just south of the Kent city limits.
It didn't take long for Keith Evans to start tracking down several of his former players after the Kent Predators hired him this month as coach.
Evans has signed at least four players who played under him last year in Wenatchee to join Kent's Indoor Football League team, which is now in its second year. The Predators open the 2011 season Feb. 25 at the ShoWare Center.
Area residents were treated to a beautiful sky show these past couple of days, around the majesty of Mount Rainier.
Thanks to lots of moist air moving over the mountains, a series of what are called "lenticular" clouds formed, creating a dramatic skyscape looking more painted than real.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke will deliver her annual State of the City address 11:30 a.m Feb. 2 at the Kent Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St.
There is still time to sign up for free King County training in Kent that teaches participants how to master their garbage.
A freight train struck an unoccupied car at about 11 p.m. Wednesday in downtown Kent. The car's driver and his passenger had fled the car after it became stuck on the tracks and before the train was in the area.
Larice Roop remembers as she watched her daughter Spencer sing in the crib even before she could talk.
But last week Roop watched her 14-year-old daughter win the Kent-Meridian High School Idol contest. And on Jan. 29, Roop will see her daughter compete in the first "Kent's Got Talent" show at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
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King County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating what they believe was a double suicide Tuesday evening at a home just south of the Kent city limits in the 27200 block of 33rd Avenue South.
Shawn David Gulseth, the man charged with first-degree murder in the connection with the Dec. 20 stabbing death of his Kent girlfriend at her apartment, is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 3 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Drivers can expect traffic delays Jan. 25-28 eastbound and westbound along West James Street near the ShoWare Center due to sidewalk and road construction.
Players from the Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team will appear from 6-7 p.m. Jan. 26 at Fred Meyer stores in Kent and Renton.
The Kent School District will host its annual Technology Exposition 6-9 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Kent ShoWare Center. The Tech Expo is an opportunity for Kent School District students and teachers to demonstrate how technology is used in their classrooms, alongside local businesses showcasing technology in careers. This partnership provides students and community members a chance to see how technology skills acquired today translate directly into future professions.
Golfers can compete in the 17th annual Winter Ball Buster Feb. 12 at Riverbend Golf Complex in Kent.
A fundraising dinner in December for Kent's Lucy Lopez Center raised nearly $3,000 - something for which Roberto Gonzales, a cofounder of the center, is thankful.
"It went wonderful," said Gonzales, seated last month in a booth at his Mexico Lindo restaurant in Kent, and recalling the Dec. 5 Mexican festivities at the Kent Senior Activity Center. "We had about 100 people."
But while the assistance is appreciated, it underscores what has become a harsh reality for the nonprofit center.
It paid to keep the facility operating for just one month.
Kent Police are investigating a pair of carjackings that occurred the evening of Jan. 21 in Kent.
Entertainment cannot get much more local than the first "Kent's Got Talent" show coming up 7 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.
King County officials continue to monitor the Green River Friday for flooding because of rainfall and releases of water from behind the Howard Hanson Dam.
But only minor flooding is expected in the lower Mill Creek basin, and in rural areas of the Green River Valley without levees upstream of Auburn, according to King County.
