Neighborhoods from all over Kent - including those in the recently annexed Panther Lake area - came out in force to celebrate National Night Out Aug. 3. See how folks in the Kent area joined forces and had fun getting to know their neighbors.
Incumbent Pat Sullivan sees his strong community ties and work to reform education funding as reasons to keep him as state representative for House Legislative District 47. Challenger Rodrigo Yanez promises he would help stop raising taxes and work to follow the will of the people based on initiative votes.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce is having its second of two candidate forums for the upcoming primary elections.
Organized by the chamber's Government Affairs Committee, the next forum runs noon to 2 p.m. Aug. 10, and will cover the races of the 33rd and 47th districts. Both will take place at the Kent Centennial Building's North/South Conference Room, 400 W. Gowe St.
King County voters are returning ballots at a greater rate than projected for the first week of the Primary Election. More than 100,000 ballots have already been returned, as of Aug. 6, and Elections officials are busy processing them. As in all elections, there are some ballots that can’t be opened because of problems associated with voter signatures.
Two standing ovations from an audience of nearly 1,500 delegates from 17 countries saluted the Kent-based Rainier Youth Choir's Consonare and Colla Voice ensembles at the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Convention’s opening night July 20 at Spokane’s INB Performing Arts Center.
They were intrigued by the local history, observed two growing cities in revitalization, toured businesses at work and embraced the many sights and sounds with their intercultural friends living half a world away.
A delegation from Tamba, Japan – led by its re-elected mayor – paid Kent and Auburn a long-anticipated visit last week to strengthen a relationship that began more than 40 years ago.
King County attorneys withdrew accusations that Des Moines animal control and one of its officers played a role in the death of a dog last fall shortly after it left the Kent Shelter.
The Kent Arts Commission has received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to develop and promote a 2011 bicycle tour of the earthworks projects located in the Green River Valley, including Kent.
King County Sheriff's Office detectives are looking for a man in his mid-20s suspected in the rape of a 21 year-old woman on July 28 in Covington.
The attack occurred just after midnight July 28 near the LA Fitness, 27245 172nd Ave. S.E., according to an Aug. 4 Sheriff's Office media release.
The trial for a Tukwila man accused of shooting a man to death in November 2008 at the Westfield Southcenter Mall has been rescheduled to Jan. 19, 2011 at King County Superior Court in Kent.
Kent firefighters rescued a disabled man from a house fire in the 10500 block of Southeast 211th Street at about 8:54 p.m. Aug. 1 in what was first reported to be an outdoor smoke investigation.
Work begins Aug. 2 on State Route 18 near Peasley Canyon in Auburn to permanently repair damage from a large landslide in January that has closed the westbound truck-climbing lane between Highway 167 and Interstate 5.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to install additional drains as well as extend an existing drainage tunnel to repair the Howard Hanson Dam rather than extending a temporary grout curtain.
The corps revealed the new plans at a press conference Friday in Seattle organized by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., to announce how the corps would spend the $44 million approved for repairs as part of a $59 billion emergency supplemental spending bill approved earlier this month by Congress and signed July 29 by President Obama.
Pat Ellis started Cops With Cancer to help make sure Greg Duffin's dream to support his fellow police officers fighting the disease became a reality.
Ellis, a city of Kent crisis intervention coordinator and chaplain for the police and fire departments, sat down at a table sandwiched between a 1932 Ford Roadster and a classic Harley-Davidson in the showroom at the Kent Performance Auto Center to discuss the endeavor. The center will host the Second Annual Greg Duffin Car and Motorcycle Show July 31, a fundraiser for Cops With Cancer, a Kent-based nonprofit set up to support officers struck by cancer.
The Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team will play its home opener for the 2010-11 regular season at 7:05 p.m. Sept. 25 against the Portland Winterhawks at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
The T-Birds, who released their tentative schedule July 28, open the Western Hockey League regular season against the Everett Silvertips Sept. 24 at Comcast Arena in Everett.
Michelle McDowell walked out on the dock behind her Lake Meridian home and looked at the Meridian Belle before crews started to tear apart the 40-year-old boat.
"She's just falling apart," said McDowell, who carefully stepped up on the boat but took only a few steps because of the weak floorboards.
The boat had once been the queen of the lake hosting dinner parties and even a brass band as it traveled around the lake on Kent's East Hill. But nobody had used the boat for a couple of years because of its bad condition.
That, however, is all about to change.
Janet Nance discovered planning became much easier this year for the annual National Night Out gathering Aug. 3 at the Pheasants Hollow neighborhood in Panther Lake because the area has annexed into the city of Kent.
King County Sheriff’s Office detectives are looking for a 51-year-old man suspected in the rape of a woman earlier this week at a Covington house.
After the alleged assault the man reportedly made the woman drive to an ATM in Renton and withdraw money. He then stole her car, according to a Sheriff's Office media release.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 308-108 Tuesday to approve a $59 billion emergency supplemental spending bill that includes $44 million to repair the Howard Hanson Dam that helps protect the Green River Valley from flooding.
A 59-year-old Kent man pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to sexual exploitation of a child in connection with his January trip to Cambodia to have sex with underage girls.
Craig Thomas Carr faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison and up to 30 years in prison as well as lifetime supervised release, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office Western District of Washington media release.
