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Kent Council races: looks to be Albertson versus Koepp

Come Nov. 3, incumbent Elizabeth Albertson will likely face off against challenger Geoff Koepp for a seat on the Kent City Council.As of Aug. 24,… Continue reading

Kent shorelines plan up for adoption today by Council committee

The Kent Council's Planning and Economic Development Committee will consider an updated Shoreline Master Program plan for adoption Monday. The meeting takes place at 4:30… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

‘Really an anomaly’: Kent Schools budget shows dip in revenues

The Kent School District unveiled the latest draft of its 2009-2010 operating budget during the Aug. 12 school board meeting.The $261 million proposed budget is… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Hutchison, Constantine headed to showdown for KC executive

The two Eastsiders in a crowded field of King County executive candidates may have canceled each other out in their bids for office.State Sen. Fred… Continue reading

  • Aug 22, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Clark leading in race for school board; second ballot line still too close to call

Editor's note: This story has been updated with elections results as of Friday evening.With votes continuing to trickle in following Tuesday's mail-in-only primary election, it… Continue reading

Anna Ivanchuk

Crowds throng Kent backpack giveaway; supplies run out

Nearly 200 children showed up at the Kiwanis Tot Lot No. 1 Thursday to try and get one of 100 new backpacks stuffed with school… Continue reading

Anna Ivanchuk
Sound Transit light rail expansion to Highline Community College and South 272nd may force the business near the college and on Pacific Highway to relocate for a light rail station.

Envision Midway: Future rail corridor from airport to Kent slowly taking shape

When Sound Transit expands light rail along Pacific Highway from Sea-Tac Airport to Kent by 2020, city officials want to help turn the area into… Continue reading

Sound Transit light rail expansion to Highline Community College and South 272nd may force the business near the college and on Pacific Highway to relocate for a light rail station.
Kent motorcyclists can join Nick Genet on a Sept. 12 ride on the Kitsap Peninsula and Vashon Island to raise money for a 4-year-old California boy injured by his father.

Rev up motorcycles to help child whose eyes were eaten

Nick Genet's looking for motorcyclists from Kent and beyond on Sept. 12 to help him raise money. Genet wants to help a 4-year-old California boy… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Kent motorcyclists can join Nick Genet on a Sept. 12 ride on the Kitsap Peninsula and Vashon Island to raise money for a 4-year-old California boy injured by his father.

Kent caregiver found guilty in rape of mentally disabled woman

Bessie Clark cannot comprehend how a caregiver could do such a thing as rape her stepdaughter, a physically and mentally disabled woman who was under… Continue reading

Kent church plans ice-cream social

Kent Lutheran Church will host its fourth-annual ice cream social from 3 to 6 p.m. Aug. 23.The social will feature carnival games, face painting, clowns,… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

‘She scratched me all over’: Man tells police woman ripped his shirt off, attacked him

ASSAULTPolice found a man standing in a driveway with scratches on his chest, face and arm when they responded to an assault call at about… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Local emergency officials and Puget Sound Energy workers stand near the site of a ruptured natural-gas line late Wednesday morning. The smoky substance in the air is dust being kicked up by the escaping gas.

PSE gas main in Kent ruptured, repaired

A ruptured gas line on the outskirts of Kent shut down 277th Street for several hours Wednesday.As of press time this morning, repairs to the… Continue reading

Local emergency officials and Puget Sound Energy workers stand near the site of a ruptured natural-gas line late Wednesday morning. The smoky substance in the air is dust being kicked up by the escaping gas.

Read eight books; get another

Three Kent elementary schools are participating in a program that can earn students free books from the Barnes and Noble Bookseller in Tukwila.Martin Sortun, Park… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Free immunizations Sept. 15 and 23 for Kent students

The Kent School District is teaming with Public Health - Seattle King County to provide free immunizations for all students in the Kent School District.The… Continue reading

  • Aug 21, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Kent Youth Soccer League Coach Deb Tulloch preps her team before a 2008 game at the Pea Patch soccer fields. The popular location could be closing.

Park quandary: Pea Patch soccer fields one of several on closure list

Kent Youth Soccer Association and city officials are scrambling to deal with a proposal by Acting King County Executive Kurt Triplett to shut down four… Continue reading

Kent Youth Soccer League Coach Deb Tulloch preps her team before a 2008 game at the Pea Patch soccer fields. The popular location could be closing.
Kent School District parent Ben Ibale was out with his infant son Calvin on Wednesday during a rally in support of the Kent Education Association

Kent schools: Small contract items resolved in first round of mediator talks

Mediation began Wednesday between the Kent Education Association and the Kent School District in hopes of averting a strike that could delay the start of… Continue reading

  • Aug 20, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Kent School District parent Ben Ibale was out with his infant son Calvin on Wednesday during a rally in support of the Kent Education Association
Kent Education Association members and supportes rally Wednesday before the meeting with the Kent School Board and the state mediator at Mill Creek Middle School.

Mediation starts between Kent district, teachers

Mediation began Wednesday between the Kent Education Association and the Kent School District in hopes of averting a strike that could delay the start of… Continue reading

Kent Education Association members and supportes rally Wednesday before the meeting with the Kent School Board and the state mediator at Mill Creek Middle School.

Special filing periods scheduled for general election

King County Elections will be conducting two separate special, three-day filing periods to fill positions that became vacant after June’s candidate filing week. All candidates… Continue reading

  • Aug 19, 2009
  • BY Wire Service

Mediator starts work Wednesday on Kent teaching contract impasse

A mediator from the Washington State Public Employee Relations commission has been assigned to Kent to try to facilitate negotiations between the Kent School District… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Harold Buresh

He digs his work: Kent man earns national honor for volunteer efforts

A Kent man was awarded the National Forest Service Volunteer of the Year Award Friday at a ceremony in Seattle that featured Secretary of Agriculture… Continue reading

  • Aug 18, 2009
  • BY Wire Service
Harold Buresh