Kent Little League was in full swing April 16 at Ryan Brunner fields during a Kent Marlins and White Sox Little League game.
The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field has something very special coming April 30 through May 30. The Liberty Foundation’s 2011 Salute to Veterans tour will feature the Boeing B-17 “Liberty Belle” and the rare Curtiss P-40E “Warhawk” fighter aircraft.
The B-17 flying fortress is particularly fascinating for a couple of reasons.
Kentlake graduate Kayleigh Perkins' unlimited light hydroplane UL-72 Miss Foster Care caught fire and exploded today during testing trails on Lake Washington at the Stan Sayres Memorial Pits. Perkins was not injured, but had to jump out of the burning hydroplane and swim to shore.
Kent City Councilman Les Thomas has decided to throw his hat in the political ring for a third term.
The 65-year-old Thomas was born and raised in Kent and he has served various elected positions, but finds the City Council the most rewarding.
Emiko Knowlton wanted to find a way to help the people of Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that caused so much loss of life and destruction.
Knowlton said her friend Laura Fournier from Mill Creek created a project and posted it on Facebook, “A Thousand Paper Cranes for Japan.” The idea caught on with Knowlton and her friends.
This week I am going to dedicate this space to a married couple. A happily married couple. And that is worth noting, and remembering.
For the past couple of years I have played in a sextet with Rob Reynolds. Rob is the best jazz sax man I have ever had the opportunity to work with in a band.
Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday, April 13, against a 25-year-old Kent woman for allegedly sending an anthrax hoax letter addressed to the President Obama.
The charging documents stated Kate Michelle Young sent a letter addressed to the president, "which contained white powdery substance and made a reference to 'anthrax.'" The substance was tested and found to be harmless.
A trial budget balloon sent up by the Kent School District administration about cutting physical education and music has been met with a volley of letters to the editor and heaps of worry.
The emotions of those I have talked to range from anger, suspicion and questions about hidden agendas. I have yet to hear from anyone who thinks cutting PE and music programs falls in the good idea category, or is even an acceptable option despite the dire budget numbers the board members and administration are staring down.
Barbara Jeanne Anderson, a Kentlake High School math teacher, pleaded not guilty in superior court today to a charge of first-degree sexual misconduct.
The King County Prosecutor's Office filed the charge, which is a class C felony, against the 37-year-old teacher alleging she had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student in her class.
King County Assessor Lloyd Hara is on the road again talking about property values and economic conditions past, present and future.
Since taking office in November 2009 he has made more than 300 presentations to the public explaining and discussing the effects of the Great Recession on the property values around King County.
I receive quite a number of releases about events going on around the region and I spotted one today that made me stop in my tracks.
The 47th annual Polish spring bazaar at 1714 18th Ave. in Seattle from noon to 7 p.m. April 16.
The bazaar sounds like fun, although I admit my fun threshold is embarrassingly low.
But the bazaar wasn’t what hooked me. It was the pickle soup.
The Kent Police Department reported a 63-year-old Kent man was shot Tuesday, March 30, at 10:08 p.m. in the 23300 block of 61st Ave South in Kent.
The AT&T plan to purchase T-Mobile for a cool $39 billion has been hot news the past week.
I am hoping this means I will no longer need to stand in the street and wait for a cement truck to nearly run me over before I finally get those funny little connection bars.
Personally, I think an argument can be made that a couple of Dixie cups and a string works about as well as my cell phone.
A 40-year-old Maple Valley man, Troy Allen Hewitt, was charged with second degree murder and first degree assault by the King County Prosecutor March 23, in superior court.
Hewitt is alleged to have stabbed to death James Reed III and wounded Reed's 49-year-old father with a knife, March 20, following a bar fight at the at the Red Dog Saloon located at 18605 S.E. Renton-Maple Valley Road in unincorporated King County.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office filed a first-degree sexual misconduct charge Tuesday in Superior Court, a class C felony, against Barbara Jeanne Anderson, a Kentlake High School teacher.
The 37-year-old math teacher is alleged to have had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student who was in her class at the school.
The King County Sheriff's office reported a woman teacher at Kentlake High teacher was arrested and booked into the King County jail Thursday, March 17, for investigation of sexual misconduct with a minor, first degree, a class C felony.
Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office stated the 37-year-old woman is alleged to have had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student.
The Kentwood fast-pitch team played Bothell to a 1-1 tie Saturday at home.
Bothell went up 3-1 in the top of the seventh, but the Kentwood girls did not get an to swing the bat in the bottom of the seventh due to a time limit on the game.
The state insurance commissioner’s office investigators appear to have broken a fraud case involving more than $1 million and five elderly men and women ranging in age from 74 to 90.
According to the commissioner’s office spokesman Rich Roesler, investigators from the insurance commissioner’s office and State Patrol troopers arrested Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim, who was living in Kent, Tuesday.
The 47th District voters have sent two rookie legislators to Olympia for the biennial session beginning Monday and both share the optimism and trepidation of first-time lawmakers.
The 47th followed much of the rest of the county in the November general election, replacing two incumbent Democrats with Republicans.
Joe Fain will be sworn in as the senator of the 47th on the first day of the session. He replaces Claudia Kauffman. Mark Hargrove of Covington will be taking over the House Position No. 1. He defeated Geoff Simpson in the general election.
The decision about hospital beds requested by Valley Medical Center, Auburn Regional and MultiCare will not be released by the state Department of Health Monday,… Continue reading
