Kent firefighters rescued a man from the top of his car after the vehicle stalled in flood waters at 6 a.m. Friday in the 22000 block of 76th Avenue South.
22nd annual Juried Holiday Craft Market: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 8. Features more than 70 vendor booths offering handcrafted gifts, as well as a fundraiser figgy pudding bake sale, lunch, and door prizes. Admission: Free. Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St., Kent. 253-856-5162.
The following is a listing of the most recent tallies for many of the major political races affecting Kent residents. Results come from the King County elections Web site, www.kingcounty.gov/elections, and the Washington State elections Web site, www.secstate.wa.gov/elections.
The look changed.
But the results remained the same for the Kentwood High volleyball team on Saturday in the South Puget Sound League championship match against Rogers.
Residents can tell the Kent City Council what they think about crime, traffic or any other issue at a town hall meeting 9 a.m. Saturday at the Kent Station branch of Green River Community College, Room 238, 417 Ramsay Way.
Sen. Barack Obama has won the U.S. presidential race electoral college votes, beating out Sen. John McCain, according to national news outlets.
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The Kentwood football team was in need of an offensive spark last Friday night at French Field.
Down 7-6 in the third quarter against Kentlake in what amounted to a survival game for a South Puget Sound League playoff berth, the Conquerors needed something — anything.
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It may take place at a senior center, but Kent’s Holiday Craft Market is not your grandmother’s craft fair. Now in its 22nd year, the market runs Nov. 7 and 8 at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
Chelsea Bailey hasn’t even gotten to this year’s state girls swim meet yet, since it’s not until next weekend.
But the Kentlake High sophomore already has swum faster than one state record — and darn near did it in two events during last Saturday’s Class 4A West Central District meet.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers announced Saturday that its members voted to ratify a new four-year contract with The Boeing Co. by 74 percent.
The Kent Sister Cities Association has scheduled its annual recognition event for 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Kent City Hall Council Chambers, at Fourth and Gowe in downtown Kent.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has announced its opposition to two measures on next week's general election ballot.
The chamber opposes Proposition 1, the Sound Transit measure, as well as I-1029, regarding long-term caregivers.
Regarding Kent Reporter’s Oct. 17 online article, “We are our brother’s keeper? Kent merchant aids homeless.”
What a pleasant article about two people pursuing their values, an acknowledged win-win. It’s lovely to see people enjoying their life and helping others in a way that makes them happy too.
Kent Police and other law-enforcement agencies arrested 23 known gang members for outstanding warrants or probation violations, during an Oct. 24 crackdown from Federal Way to South Seattle.
To Reporter columnist Walter Backstrom:
I recently read your article in the Kent Reporter and I’d just like to say thank you for your courage and your thoughtful words.
Rossi does not want to lower the minimum wage, but wait, wait, wait just for a few kids. Just for the first six months while we train them to fill a popcorn box or shine flashlight. How many trainies would make six months? Five and a half and you’re out of here.
In reading your recent article about Rep. Pat Sullivan and challenger Tim Miller, it became clear that Miller simply repeats the conservative Republican mantra of cutting taxes, deregulating businesses and claiming that government is inefficient.
