Dave Street has been going away to summer camp for nearly his whole life, most of them to Camp Waskowitz in North Bend.Street first attended… Continue reading
Primary-election ballots mailed out to voters this past week include a contest for the Kent School Board of Directors District 5 position, but one of… Continue reading
Summer may be half over, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to get involved with the Summer Reading Program at the Kent Regional Library.“It’s… Continue reading
With temperatures set to flirt with record highs all week, the city of Kent is opening up a pair of cooling centers to help resident… Continue reading
Before they left their small towns back in Norway for the more than 4,400-mile journey to Kent, Alise Johannessen Hjellbrekke, 16, and Ragnhild Kringlen, 15,… Continue reading
John and Carol McConnell have both been blind since birth. Each was born prematurely and that affected their vision, leaving both to spend their lives… Continue reading
In his first few weeks on the job, new Kent School District Superintendent Edward Lee Vargas made it a point to tour all of the… Continue reading
I have always been something of a space case, I suppose. When I was younger, on one of the court-ordered visitations to Florida, my real… Continue reading
A pair of Kent Elementary schools have received awards from the state for closing the achievement gap at their schools.The principals at Neely O’Brien Elementary… Continue reading
Everybody has foods that remind them of home, comfort foods that become favorites and familiar stand-bys in the kitchen.But for those not from around these… Continue reading
Even the weather seemed to cooperate this past weekend during the 38th annual Kent Cornucopia Days, blanketing the region with sunshine and warm temperatures through most of the festival and waiting all day Sunday before dousing the area with a little of the wet stuff.
“The rain held off until closing time,” volunteer event director Bill Westcott said Monday. “Almost to the minute.”
There's a whole new reason for kids to "kruze" around the city this summer thanks to Kent4Health's Kruzin' Kent Passport Program.Armed with a free passport,… Continue reading
It was a day of food, family and fun in the sun as Kent's annual Cornucopia Days got under way Friday under a beautiful blue… Continue reading
Three times a week, Gary Ruggles of Covington has to come in for dialysis. It’s a four-hour-and-15-minute procedure each time to have his blood pumped… Continue reading
Krista Wilson had no idea what a dragon boat was when she first saw the photos, but said she saw pictures of the long, sleek… Continue reading
When the building which housed Catwalks Salon on Meeker Street burned down more than two years ago, it left not only a hole in the… Continue reading
The Kent Chamber of Commerce has added two additional events to its summer networking calendar.The first runs 5-7 p.m. July 8 at the Chamber office,… Continue reading
