Pertussis outbreak in King County
King County is experiencing a widespread pertussis outbreak, with 100 confirmed cases reported in the first 3 months of 2012.
May 15, 2012
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U.S. Climate Versus Weather Computers: Climate Wins
Why is the U.S. government provide hugely more computer resources for climate prediction than weather prediction? And why is far more emphasis given to climate prediction research than weather prediction research and development?In some past blogs I talked about the unfortunate lack of computer resources available to the National Weather Service (NWS), resulting in the...
Muckleshoot Tribe establishes Higher Education Scholarship program
The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe today announced the establishment of a Higher Education Scholarship program to support Native American students enrolled at one of 12 state universities, community colleges or technical colleges in the 2012 school year.
King County area pets go online
Charlie's Guardian Angels, Seattle and The Pit Stop, Maple Valley, recently have joined other animal welfare organizations in the area that list their homeless pets on Petfinder.com.
Kent-Meridian offers summer credit recovery
Kent-Meridian High School will offer credit recovery classes during the summer from June 25 through August 2.
May 14, 2012
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IGrad school reaches out to former Kent students
Kent School District is partnering with Green River Community College to help students who have not completed high school.
May 14, 2012
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Cold Records with Warm Temperatures
On Saturday it became toasty here in Northwest, with many locations gets into the 70s and lower 80s. Yet a number of locations exprienced daily minimum temperature records in the morning--here is the proof from the National Climatic Data Center records website. The blue dot indicate a tie for the record and stations with an...
Kent man, woman to receive free wheelchair ramps
Volunteers from the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish counties will build 15 free wheelchair ramps for low-income disabled homeowners on May 19, part of its 19th annual Rampathon event.
May 11, 2012
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Kentwood teen throws out first pitch at M's game
Spencer Johnson of Covington threw out the first ceremonial pitch at the Seattle Mariners Salute to Kids game sponsored by Boeing last Saturday.
May 11, 2012
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Summer in May
It is a climatological oddity of Northwest meteorology that we often get a period of very warm, dry weather sometime in the second or third week of May, followed by a retreat into the dismal June Gloom. Well folks, we are about to have the heat wave--one that will bring near 80F temps to Seattle,...
Rainier Youth Choirs to perform Made in America concert
The Rainier Youth Choirs performs its Made in America concert at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at the Kent United Methodist Church, 11010 SE 248th St., Kent.
May 10, 2012
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