Pedestrians will have improved access along West James Street after the Kent City Council approved a $196,000 contract to Road Construction Northwest, Inc., to construct new sidewalks and pedestrian signals.
Work has started on $3.5 million in improvements to the apartments and community center at Cascade Homes, a 108-unit public housing complex with 327 residents in the Panther Lake area on Kent's East Hill.
The community is invited to attend a Burmese New Year celebration Jan. 1 at Kent Covenant Church, 12010 S.E. 240th St., Kent.
The excitement at Kent's Door-to-Door Storage on Dec. 16 was palpable.
The weather was cold and damp, and topping it off, there was a cutting wind.
But that didn't deter the crowd of about 60 who showed up, hot for a treasure.
Three men escaped serious injury after their car left a Kent street, flew 40 feet through the air and struck a tree 9 feet above the ground.
Seat belts and airbags saved the lives of the driver and two passengers in the after 3 a.m. Dec. 24 crash in the 26600 block of Woodland Way South on the East Hill, according to a Kent Police media release.
Angus Wilson had worked his way up in the trucking world.
He drove for 20 years, and was pulling in $80,000 a year as a driver trainer.
But the wheels, quite literally, came off for Wilson, due to a lapse in judgement.
He was arrested for drunken driving.
“One night turned my life upside down,” Wilson said.
He lost his job. Eventually, he lost nearly every material possession he had.
Already going through a divorce at the time of his DUI, he lost his wife and two children, too.
One Thursday in December, a now-homeless Wilson was queuing up for dinner and a respite from the winter cold. Along with his friend Joey Smith, also homeless, Wilson was getting a hot meal from a group of kindly volunteers in the basement of Kent Unity Church.
In Kent, there are meals served every day of the week for the homeless and the struggling. Here is a running list of who is serving and where, along with phone numbers if you wish to help
The Kent Predators of the professional Indoor Football League are looking for a new owner after a deal to sell the team to the Michael Tuckman-led West Coast Sports collapsed just two months before the start of the 2011 season.
The Predators also need a new coach. Heron O'Neal has resigned as coach just a month after a Nov. 18 press conference at the ShoWare Center that announced him as the new coach and Tuckman as team president.
It will take at least another four to six weeks before the Portland man arrested Dec. 10 in connection with the killing of a Kent city employee is brought to Washington to face a murder charge.
Allied Waste recently published a list of “Naughty and Nice” recycling tips to help its customers through some complex recycling choices.
The company says that, even for diligent and dedicated recyclers, “holiday decorations and gift wrap may present a challenge.”
So, just what is acceptable for the recycle bin?
A 20-year-old man, who Kent Police are investigating in connection with the shooting death of former Kentridge High school standout Devin Topps, was charged Dec. 23 by King County prosecutors with first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
Jorge Luis Lizarraga, who had been living in a Des Moines motel over the last few weeks, remained Dec. 27 in the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center jail in lieu of $750,000 bail.
Charles Wells is the Seattle Thunderbirds Player of the Week
What do the Seattle Thunderbirds and Kent's Morford Family Carousel have in common?
If you said "both go around in circles while music plays," well, that's not the answer.
A gang confrontation outside Southcenter Mall Sunday night resulted in gunfire and a multi-agency police response.
There were no injuries, but multiple youths were detained, including one 15-year-old armed with a pistol.
I know it sounds really strange, but I do my best thinking in the shower. For some reason, it’s the one place my brain seems to fire correctly and the ideas flow. Yesterday, for example, I was thinking while showering, “I wonder what extra-terrestrials would think about our Christmas celebrations?” I conjured up so many thoughts on that subject that I used up all the hot water in the shower.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke hopes to hire a new police chief to replace outgoing Chief Steve Strachan within the next couple of months.
Deputy chief Mike Painter will serve as interim chief starting Jan. 3 until a replacement is hired.
Steve Strachan’s work during his 4 1/2 years as Kent Police chief came into perspective for him one morning last week, when he read a department e-mail about a prior day’s arrest.
“Two patrol officers doing diligent work put a gang member pimping juvenile girls into jail,” Strachan recalled, during a Dec. 17 interview at his office. “The (three-month long) case started because two patrol officers got information and ran with it.”
A 32-year-old Renton man was sentenced Thursday to 4 1/2 years in prison on two counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of two Des Moines women Aug. 24 in a three-car accident in Kent.
It will take at least another four to six weeks before the Portland man arrested Dec. 10 in connection with the killing of a Kent city employee is brought to Washington to face a murder charge.
William L. Phillip Jr., 30, refused to waive extradition at a Dec. 21 hearing in Portland, according to Ian Goodhew, deputy chief of staff for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Kent Police have made an arrest in the Oct. 31 shooting death of Kentridge High School athletic standout Devin Topps.
Police took a 20-year-old Auburn man into custody Tuesday evening for investigation of first-degree murder after he was tracked down at a SeaTac 7-Eleven store at South 194th Street and Pacific Highway South.
