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Lingerie Football League plans visit to area next week

Fans will get a free preview next week of the Seattle Mist, a new women’s Lingerie Football League…

Self-proclaimed Seattle Majestics’ biggest fan J.J. Campolo holds up his sign: “Get um

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Majestics women’s football team opens in Kent with a win and a crowd

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Seattle Majestics player Crystal Brown

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Majestics women’s football ready for season opener in Kent

Few women’s tackle football teams know each other as well as the Seattle Majestics and Corvallis Pride. Seattle…

Members of the Kent City Council listen as West Hill resident Reynold Eicke asks a question during a town hall meeting last October. Council members

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Kent Council, mayor: Not legal to immediately reduce salaries

Kent City Council members and Mayor Suzette Cooke discovered there’s little they can do to immediately reduce their…

Greg Michaels is confident that he can teach “90 percent of the population to use a sword well.”

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Learn the fine art of swordplay in Kent

Instructor Greg Michaels stands confident that just about anyone can learn swashbuckling – the audacious art of sword-fighting…

Pete Petersen

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All systems go: Riverbend Golf Course opens this week

Golfers can expect plenty of changes at the redesigned Riverbend Golf Course. It opened Wednesday. Holes No. 5,…

Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke

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Kent Mayor goes to the source for federal funds

Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke and two other city officials lobbied heavily before Washington senators and congress members recently…

Camille Head

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Majestics: Real women playing real football

Kent is the new home of yet another Seattle sports team. The Seattle Majestics of the Independent Women’s…

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Kent shelter reconnects escaped cat with owner

Ken Gold hoped his lost cat would show up one day. But for nine months he hadn’t heard…

Col. Anthony Wright

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Howard Hanson Dam has officials worried for next winter

Col. Anthony Wright jumped right into the middle of the depression on the abutment adjacent to the Howard…

Kent firefighters have taken a 3 percent pay cut to help the city save money and avoid layoffs. Pictured are city firefighters Tom Johnson

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Kent city employees agree to pay cuts to save jobs

All four Kent city unions as well as a group of non-represented employees voted to take pay cuts…

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WSP seeking witnesses to fatal crash on State Route 167

Washington State Patrol investigators are seeking witnesses to a head-on crash Sunday on State Route 167 that took…

Col. Anthony Wright

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Howard Hanson Dam: March 31 meeting to discuss flood worries

Flooding from the Green River could strike the cities of Kent, Auburn, Renton and Tukwila during a major…

Hot Wheels collector Dick Cays

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Greater Seattle Toy Show makes pit stop in Kent – with cars

Dick Cays picked up his first Hot Wheel car in the 1970s at a swap meet. Now the…

City of Kent sewer maintenance worker Duane Oliver prepares to clean out a sewer at a commercial complex off of 196th. Oliver uses a special vacuum truck to keep the city's sewer pipes clean. CHARLES CORTES

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What Duane Oliver does for Kent – and why it affects your toilet

Duane Oliver fights fats, oil and grease throughout Kent. Oliver, a city sewer maintenance worker, uses a Vactor…

The Seattle Mist of the inaugural Lingerie Football League will play two home games at the ShoWare Center in Kent. Players shown above are competing in the annual Lingerie Bowl.

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Football meets sexy: Lingerie League comes to Kent

Scantily clad women playing tackle football will make their debut for the new Seattle Mist of the inaugural…

Barbra McMichael

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Thunderbirds exhibit roosts at Kent museum

Now in the midst of their first season at the ShoWare Center, the Seattle Thunderbirds have just started…

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Kent not assured by state cleanup plan for mine near city water

Kent city officials plan to hire an outside attorney and an environmental consulting firm to help assure hazardous…

Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke delivered her state of the city address Wednesday at Kent’s ShoWare Center.

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Kent mayor: City soldiers on in spite of recession

Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke received a standing ovation before and after her fourth annual State of the City…

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Enterprising prisoner tries, but can’t, squeeze out of hole

Escape A man waiting to be booked into the Kent city jail reportedly tried to escape through a…