Cheryl Wright hopes a new celebration called AutumnFest that features wine and beer tasting, snacks, music and even a scarecrow-decorating contest will give people a reason to check out the Historic District of downtown Kent.
Autumnfest runs 4-8 p.m. Sept. 24 at more than 15 businesses in the heart of Kent's downtown: West Meeker Street, West Gowe Street, First Avenue and Second Avenue.
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Deonte Lamont Rasul-Chiono, prosecutors allege, jumped with both feet and the full force of his 275 pounds on the head of Lonnie Johnson as the 53-year-old homeless man lay unconscious, helpless and bleeding heavily from his head on the street in the 2200 block of I Street early Wednesday morning.
On Thursday, prosecutors charged the 18-year-old Kent man with second-degree assault.
Vandals are putting Green River Valley residents at serious risk.
What they are doing: cutting open the sandbags that line the river as a defense against flood.
Find out how local officials are fixing the problem.
And if you see anyone vandalizing this critical flood-protection barrier, don't hesitate to call 9-1-1.
Business owners and residents in the Kent Valley need to get ready for a second consecutive winter of potential Green River flooding because the Howard Hanson Dam still cannot hold back as much water as its original design.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees operations of Hanson Dam, reminds residents to be alert and aware about weather conditions and the potential for flooding.
There’s lots of talk these days about competing globally in the classroom.
But did you know there’s a program enabling local students to do just that?
And – better yet – that it could actually save them a year of study in college?
It’s called the International Baccalaureate Program, and it’s been around since the 1960s, when it was first developed as a academic system for the children of foreign diplomats.
A sprinkler system worked as designed in an early morning fire Sept. 17 in the 21600 block of 85th Place South, helping Kent firefighters to extinguish a fire in a large concrete tilt-up building.
Every day that Barbara Drennen goes to work as the executive director of the Pediatric Interim Care Center in downtown Kent, she sees the 4-foot-high, concrete-block flood wall wrapped in white plastic that surrounds her building.
King County prosecutors charged a 29-year-old Renton man Sept. 10 with vehicular assault in connection with a T-bone collision Sept. 8 on Kent's East Hill that critically injured his passenger, a 27-year-old Renton man.
Alan Edward Undem is scheduled to be arraigned for the alleged assault at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
A 34-year-old Auburn man died when his motorcycle collided with a car Sept. 14 at about 5 p.m. near Kent. The accident occurred at South 272nd and 46th Avenue South in unincorporated King County, south of Kent.
A 37-year-old woman from Louisiana driving a 2002 Mercedes 330 SUV, was stopped on South 272nd headed eastbound, waiting to turn northbound onto 46th Avenue South. The collision occurred when she entered 46th.
An accident this evening in Kent involving a motorcycle and a sport-utility vehicle ended with the death of the motorcyclist.
It was the shoes on a riverbank that brought Debbie Carlson close to tears.
The Meridian Middle School teacher was on a trip to Eastern Europe this summer, and her tour group passed by a bronze sculpture of shoes, lined up on a riverbank. There were work shoes, children’s shoes, ladies’ shoes: a mixture of jobs, genders and ages.
The significance of the sculpture wasn’t lost on Carlson, who happened by this spot in the soft light of a summer day in Budapest, along the banks of Danube River with her tour group, while visiting sites of the Holocaust.
A man being held on an out-of-state fugitive warrant died Sept. 13 while in the custody of the King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention at Harborview Medical Center.
King County prosecutors charged a 53-year-old Kent man Sept. 9 with second-degree assault after he held a woman hostage at knifepoint and threatened to set himself and the woman on fire Sept. 3 at a Kent apartment.
Rocky Dell Pettengill is scheduled to be arraigned for the alleged assault of his Kent roommate at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Divers from the King County Sheriff's Office searched for a skull Monday in the Green River near Ravensdale but did not locate a skull or other bones and will not resume the search.
Divers conducted the search, east of Kent and Covington, after the Sheriff's Office received a 911 call about 8:30 p.m. Sunday from three people reporting they saw a skull submerged in the Green River, according to a Sheriff's Office media release.
A 60-year-old Federal Way man died Sept. 11 from injuries suffered when his motorcycle collided with a car Sept. 10 along southbound Interstate 5 near South 200th Street, just northwest of Kent.
Kent has a finalist in the 20th Annual Sutter Home Build A Better Burger Contest, a leading national competition.
Mark Pyne, 49, of Kent is one of five finalists chosen from 7,000 entries to compete for the $15,000 prize in the alternative (non-beef) burger category. Pyne will travel to Miami for the cook-off on Sept. 23, where he will have three hours to prepare his burgers for the judges.
Thirteen-year-old Lucas MacMillan left a city of Kent Parks volunteer event in the spring saying to his mother, “Everyone is so nice! I really want to do more of this community stuff.”
Gina MacMillan was touched by her son’s unprompted and genuine reaction so she passed it on to city parks staff and added, “Thank you for giving even the little kids an opportunity to help.”
Do you have old prescription drugs or over the counter medicines to get rid of? If so, the Kent Police will offer a collection site Sept. 25.
Medications can be dropped off from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a collection site in front of the Kent Police station, 220 Fourth Ave. S.
King County prosecutors charged a 53-year-old Kent man Sept. 9 with second-degree assault after he held a woman hostage at knifepoint and threatened to set himself and the woman on fire Sept. 3 at a Kent apartment.
Rocky Dell Pettengill is scheduled to be arraigned for the alleged assault of his Kent roommate at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
A 33-year-old Kent woman pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to conspiracy to commit theft of government funds and misuse of a social security number.
