If your child has progressed through recreational soccer and wants to take their game and skills to the next level

Sports

Kent United slates tryouts

Kent United – a competitive select program offered through Kent Covington Youth Soccer (KCYS) – offers soccer for…

The state Legislature in 2011 established WGU Washington in partnership with nationally recognized and accredited Western Governors University to expand access to higher education for Washington residents.

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WGU Washington moves offices to Kent

WGU Washington – the locally-based affiliate of online, nonprofit Western Governors University (WGU) – has moved its headquarters…

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Nominate Washington’s best for Ivar’s and Kidd Valley Teacher of the Year contest

Kidd Valley restaurants are calling on all kindergarten through eighth-graders to nominate their favorite "out of this world"…

Jersey Mike’s Subs on Kent’s East Hill raised more than $2

Business

Jersey Mike’s Subs raises $2,250 for Millennium Elementary

Jersey Mike's Subs on Kent's East Hill recently raised more than $2,000 for the Millennium Elementary School PTO.

Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority call report.

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Kent Fire Department call report April 3-9

A weekly look at the number of calls to the Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority:

Thunderbirds goalie Landon Bow makes of his 23 saves in the playoff win Sunday night.

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T-Birds pull even in series | WHL playoffs

Mathew Barzal had two goals to lead the Seattle Thunderbirds to a 3-1 Game 2 win over the…

Dozens of people and their four-legged companions took to the streets of downtown Kent last year for the inaugural Pampered Pet Walk. This year's event is set to kick off at 1 p.m. Saturday

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Join the Pampered Pet Walk on Saturday

Kent's annual Pampered Pet Walk comes to downtown on Saturday, April 16, from 1 to 4 p.m.

The Thunderbirds' Cavin Leth

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‘Tips defuse T-Birds in series opener | WHL playoffs

The Everett Silvertips shut out the Seattle Thunderbirds 3-0 in Game 1 of their second-round WHL playoff series…

The show features an expanded cast of 42 actors and singers

Life

Dessert Theatre presents ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’

Kent Covenant Church celebrates 21 years of Dessert Theatre with a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor…

Catch Lecrae on June 17 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.

Life

Lecrae, Switchfoot to perform at Kent’s ShoWare Center in June

Grammy-award winning hip-hop artist Lecrae will return to Kent’s ShoWare Center at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 17.

Exercise rider Pedro Vera Enriquez takes one of trainer Jeff Metz’s Thoroughbreds for a gallop at Emerald Downs last week. The Auburn track opens its 21st season Saturday

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Kent-area community calendar | April 8

36th annual Camera Show & Swap: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 9, Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N. Puget…

Sen. Karen Keiser

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Keiser, Orwall, Gregerson to host telephone town hall April 13

State Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Kent, and Reps. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, and Mia Gregerson, D-SeaTac, host a 33rd…

Elizabeth Sharon Fischer

Obituaries

Elizabeth Sharon Fischer

Elizabeth Sharon Fischer December 29, 1973-March 24, 2016 Elizabeth died after a difficult fourth fight with pneumonia. Beloved…

Billie Ryan-Howard

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Preschool teacher named Kent School District’s Teacher of the Year

Billie Ryan-Howard, a preschool teacher at Kent Valley Early Learning Center, has been named the Kent School District…

Keegan Kolesar will serve the second game of a two-game suspension when the T-Birds play Everett in their playoff opener Friday.

Sports

T-Birds to be without Kolesar, Gropp against ‘Tips | WHL playoffs

The Seattle Thunderbirds are expected to be without two of their top players when they open the second…

Green River College students create paper prototypes of a new website for the Kent Food Bank. Paper protoyping is a widely-used method that helps developers test the usability of a given design.

Opinion

Green River students build website for Kent Food Bank | Viewpoint

earning software development at Green River College involves building working software that addresses a real need for a…

Kent School District residents will vote on a $252 million bond issue on the April 26 ballot.

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Kent School District bond on April 26 ballot would fund new schools, classrooms

Kent School District residents on April 26 will vote on a $252 million bond referendum to fund projects…

Peter Cosacchi

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Cosacchi works as page for Sen. Fain

Peter Cosacchi, a freshman at Kentwood High School, recently spent a week working as a page for the…

Fatima Khalil

News

Highline College student honored at state awards ceremony

Kent's Fatima Khalil recently earned statewide recognition for her accomplishments as a Highline College student.

Letters to the Editor

Electoral reality: It’s party before people

Following the landslide victory of Bernie Sanders in every county in the state, Washington Democrats called for our…