Kent city crews opened 76th Avenue South from South 212th Street to approximately South 222nd Street Friday afternoon after the street had been closed earlier Friday due to water over the roadway.
Helena Reynolds gladly helped place the new sign board along East Smith Street to promote the weekday lunch at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
Reynolds, a program coordinator at the city-owned senior center, continually looks for ways to let more people know about Kent Parks Deli & Cafe lunch deal to help keep it going.
Kent residents and business owners near the Green River can soon find out how new preliminary Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps could impact them.
FEMA will present the new flood maps at an open house from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.
Chelsie Jorgensen, a member of the Seattle Mist women's Lingerie Football League team that plays at the ShoWare Center in Kent, appears in the February issue of Playboy.
Pat Curran, a longtime Kent resident and 2009 Kent Cornucopia Days Old Timers Queen, died Jan. 15 of lung cancer. She was 77.
As Bobby Dean stands in front of a cowboy mural in the entertainment room at his Kent home, he can’t help but marvel about the sudden rise of his country music singing career.
Dean, 53, signed a two-year contract in June with Lamon Records of Nashville. Lamon released Dean’s first CD “On the Radio” Jan. 4, including the single “Hank on the Radio.”
Ken Thomas couldn't even legally carry a loaded gun his first few months with the Kent Police Department because he was just 20 years old.
"Another officer had to carry my gun to the police academy," Thomas said in a phone interview Wednesday about his police debut in 1989.
Twenty-two years later, Mayor Suzette Cooke has named Thomas as Kent's new police chief.
The Howard Hanson Dam performed well during recent heavy rains to help control flooding along the Green River, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Drivers can expect traffic delays as the westbound lanes of Kent Kangley Road near the intersection of 108th Avenue Southeast will be intermittently closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jan. 20 as Kent city crews work on a water main tie in.
The Kent Predators of the Indoor Football League will have tryouts for the 2011 dance team Jan. 22 at Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N.
A fully catered dinner with a complimentary glass of wine and an auction are part of the annual Kent Valley Hockey Association fundraiser at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at the ShoWare Center.
Kent Police arrested a 53-year-old Des Moines woman following the robbery of an East Kent credit union Jan. 11. No one was hurt in the robbery and police were able to recover a quantity of evidence and money.
Officers were sent to the Alaska USA Credit Union shortly after 4 p.m. The bank branch is located inside a Fred Meyer store at 10201 S.E. 240th Street. Reports indicated that a woman entered the bank and demanded money before fleeing.
The Chinook District of Garden Clubs, consisting of 12 South King County garden clubs, will meet for its general meeting/luncheon 10 a.m. Feb. 2 at Grace Lutheran Church, 22975-24th Ave S., in Des Moines.
The Kent City Council has approved a 35-foot height limit on buildings constructed on property within 300 feet of single-family residential zones.
The Council passed the ordinance at its Jan. 4 meeting. The ordinance becomes effective Feb. 3. The city had no previous height limit on buildings.
The Kent Predators of the Indoor Football League will run tryouts for players Jan. 22 at French Field, next to Kent-Meridian High School.
Registration starts at 10 a.m. followed by tryouts at 11 a.m.
The sessions will include the 40-yard dash, a cone drill, position drills and one-on-one drills.
January is National Mentor’s Month, and locally, Communities In Schools of Kent is the local non-profit that works with the Kent School District, serving students in Kent, Renton and Covington, by providing mentors and facilitating internships.
The Corps of Engineers’ Seattle District has sent out flood fight teams to the Yakima, White/Puyallup, Green, Snohomish, Skagit and Chehalis River basins, and the Corps' Emergency Operations Center and Reservoir Control Center are in 24-hour operation as warm heavy rainfall continues in western Washington.
The King County Flood Warning Center closed Saturday morning, because river flows at that time were stable and significant rainfall is not expected for the next several hours.
Members of the Washington State Senate Republican Caucus have named Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, as the deputy Republican leader on the Senate Transportation Committee.
Fain, the youngest of the newly elected Senate Republicans sworn into office Jan. 10, the first day of the 2011 legislative session, said he’s looking forward to finding solutions to state problems with a new generation’s perspective.
State Rep. Tina Orwall may be going into her second term in Olympia, but it’s a safe bet this session won’t be anything like her last.
Although legislators had painful cuts to contend with last session, this go ‘round they will be balancing a biennial budget that has a $4.6 billion gap. And that’s in addition to making cuts in the remainder of this year’s budget, which ends June 30 and is $1.1 billion in the hole.
