Time for a confession. I had the opportunity to take a breakneck ride with a Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School instructor at Pacific Raceways last week.
As Valley Medical Center has reached the one-year anniversary of our Strategic Alliance with UW Medicine, I am pleased to report that we have already increased the availability of quality health care in our community.
King County Proposition No. 1 appears on the Aug. 7 primary election ballot.
I am a parent of an elementary student in Kent, and as we come to the end of another school year I find myself feeling disappointed to see a new crop of Hi Cap students transfer out of our school.
Since repairs at Howard Hanson Dam have restored Kent's flood risk to normal levels, the giant sandbags that line the Green River Trail are no longer necessary.
It was much more than a leisurely bicycle ride under unpredictable skies last weekend.
As the community outreach director for the Kent School District, I facilitated cultural competence workshops for several years, reaching hundreds of school district employees, as well as employees of a few community organizations.
When the first torpedo hit the USS Raleigh at Peal Harbor, a young sailor named Art Wright was on board.
Mark Albertson, a finalist in the attorney/law firm category for the 2012 Best Of Kent readership poll was incorrectly listed.
The Kent School District Board selected Edward Lee Vargas as superintendent three years ago. Prior to the nationwide search, the board conducted a survey of the stakeholders – including community, families and district employees – to determine what they thought the district needed in a superintendent.
It has recently come to my attention that the city is ready to remove the sandbags throughout Kent after the Howard Hanson Dam flood scare. The problem is that removing these bags is going to cost millions of dollars for the city.
After reading Steve Hunter's April 13 article on removing the sandbags and the cost associated with removing them, I thought there must be a way to remove the ugly black worm that many of us look at each day.
The Kent City Council's decision to deny the Resource Center for the homeless would have cost the city nothing versus the ShoWare Center that costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, plus another $36,400 for a study to determine its benefit to the city.
This week is National Teacher Appreciation Week, and I want to encourage each of you to take some time to thank your teachers, or thank a teacher you know for all the work they do each day in our classrooms.
The Green Kent Partnership began in 2009, and received initial funding through a $95,000 grant from the King Conservation District.
With the City Council's decision to reject a proposal from Union Gospel Mission to establish, operate and fund a homeless shelter in downtown Kent, an opportunity was allowed to pass largely on the opinion of the business community's negative reaction.
We are not against business, economic growth or reasonable upgrades at Pacific Raceways.
Sept. 25, 2008, was just another Thursday in Seattle – until the federal government orchestrated the largest bank failure in U.S. history.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce represents businesses that support and believe in Kent.
Kent's East Hill is one of the most diverse areas in the state and perhaps comparable to any single community in our nation.
