So, would you ever cheat on your taxes?
We asked that last week, in our reader survey, and the answer to our highly unscientific poll found it went nearly 50/50 (it was actually 48 percent yes and 51 percent no.)
Larry Lehnerz has an eye for the unusual.
And it’s in his latest business undertaking that he gets full use of that talent.
The Kent Predators are hosting their home season opener with a kick-off party Thursday at Pat’s Bar & Grill, 114 Railroad Ave., Kent.
The party runs 6-9 p.m. and Predator players, management and some of the dancers are expected to be there, mingling with fans.
The pieces are falling into place for Kent's bid to bring a major federal facility to town.
On March 1, the city signed off on a letter of intent to the feds, throwing its hat in the ring for a new Federal Aviation Administration regional headquarters.
Ask and you shall receive.
That's the adage Kent Elementary teacher Sara Sweetser could harken to, as of late.
Sweetser, who teaches P.E., got fired up earlier this year at a teaching conference, which promoted a program getting youth-soccer coaches into public schools.
To know Don Dinsmore is to know Kent.
The businessman/inventor/photographer and all-around community enthusiast has been a fixture in his adopted hometown for years.
Do you wonder who your neighbors are?
After more than three years of publishing a newspaper twice a week, the winds of destiny are blowing the Kent Reporter on a slightly different course.
Kent is in the running for federal headquarters that could bring approximately 2,000 jobs to the area.
For nearly 40 years, Kent Youth and Family Services has been a safety net for local kids and families who might otherwise slip through the cracks.
There was a resounding message this week during an educational summit at Kent-Meridian, and even if you’re not a teacher, it bears repeating.
In fact, it’s probably better you’re not a teacher. You need to be a parent to truly appreciate it.
The point was this: schools may be educating your child, but that doesn’t mean they’re in charge.
Wednesday at the ShoWare Center in Kent, two unlikely paths crossed in the most entertaining of ways.
If there was ever a time to vote to help local kids, this is it.
The Kent School District is about to see the end of two critical funding measures: a maintenance and operations levy, and a technology levy.
If you’ve been watching our front page recently (or our inside pages, too, for that matter) you may be amazed at the volume of crime stories we’ve been covering.
If there is one thing about Kent I’ve come to appreciate, it’s the diversity.
We have more than 100 languages spoken in our schools here. Kent-Meridian High School, where my daughter goes, is predominantly ethnic.
A frigid wind caused a multitude of candles to sputter out Wednesday night at French Field.
But the group that gathered at Kent-Meridian High School’s football stands just hunkered closer together, sharing flames from other, still-lit candles to ensure each of their comrades had a flame to call their own.
The last couple of weeks have been tough ones for students and staff at Kent-Meridian High School.
First there was the report, and subsequent arrest, of a suspect in a trail-grabbing incident involving a K-M student who had been on her way to school.
Christmas may celebrate the birth of Christ - and Santa sailing down the chimney with gifts - but in Mexico, there is a bigger, home-grown holiday acknowledging the birth of Christianity.
It’s good news that an arrest has been made in the trail attack on a Kent-Meridian student.
It’s every parents’ nightmare that their child could be attacked while walking to school, out of reach for help, far from their parents and family.
I normally don't quote other news articles if I can help it, but a recent Associated Press story caught my eye. It was about women war veterans, and the battles they face when they come home.
Like their male counterparts, they should be getting a hero’s welcome.
Quite often, they are not.
