A fundraising banquet Saturday to help a group of student ambassadors travel to Japan this summer found some serious community support.The banquet, the Kent-Auburn-Tamba Sister… Continue reading
I’m sitting here in my office, it’s mid-May, and there is a downpour beating against my windows.If I was struck with sudden memory loss, I’d… Continue reading
As I am writing this, we’ve just learned King County has been hit with its first suspected cases of swine flu. Several schools in the… Continue reading
Issues concerning a major flood-control dam on the Green River will be the topic of discussion at the next Kent Chamber of Commerce lunch meeting,… Continue reading
A Kent man has a major legal bone to pick with rapper Snoop Dogg.Richard Monroe, 25, previously a fan of the rapper, has been in… Continue reading
A group of local teens will function as a delegation to Japan this summer – and a public fundraiser will help them to get there.
Expect the matchup of the season Saturday night at French Field, when the Seattle Majestics play host to the Sacramento Sirens.The two teams are considered… Continue reading
The City of Tukwila took a temporary population jump Friday.
Occasionally in journalism, you get a golden moment. Like a Larry King question, where a statement is so obvious, you’re thunking your forehead with your… Continue reading
I’ve said this before, but the analogy seems appropriate to blare again.
Newspapers are a lot like chickens.
Hello readers – I’ve some thoughts I’d like to share: feel free to tell me I’m all wet, or that you think I’ve got the right idea.
The announcement that a somewhat risque sport will be coming to Kent’s ShoWare Center has drawn a mixed bag of reactions from city leadership.
King County is about to usher in a new penalty for anyone who hasn’t ponied up the dollars to buy a license for their pet.
The girl angrily kicking her shoe off in the holding cell looks like your typical nervy teen.
In the grainy pattern of the surveillance tape, she is standing in the doorway, where she bends her knee and flips the shoe off.
Out the door it goes.
On Thursday in Kent a group of people gathered together to make sense of the senseless.
They did it with chrome fenders, fuzzy dice and rumbling engines.
They were the friends and family of Panther Lake residents Joe and Karen Housley. The couple, long married and diehard fans of vintage cars, died in the most senseless of ways, and at the hands of one of their sons.
In case you missed our front-page stories in today's print paper (and online), the news is about the Kent School District - and it isn’t… Continue reading
So we’re on the brink of another Valentine’s Day.The lovers’ holiday strikes again, with boxes of candy and cards that play songs when you open… Continue reading
The Kent School Board last week pulled out the stops and did something you never hear: They joined forces with school districts across the state… Continue reading
Several weeks ago I wrote a column thanking all those emergency-services workers who put in long hours of toil through our state's flooding disaster. One… Continue reading
Just when we thought the worst of the snow was past...the rain started coming down.
And it continued coming down, in buckets.
