A couple of enterprising businessmen came up with a great idea to cut the rug – Again.
The Again company recycles carpet and it is right on the forefront of the green movement.
The sixth annual Governor's Aerospace Summit will run Sept. 14-15 at the ShoWare Center in Kent.
A Kent company is one of the Green/Sustainable Small Business of the Year finalists as part of the first King County Executive’s Small Business Awards program.
If you have an idea for a special drink there is a contest waiting for you.
The Kent Downtown Partnership will be featuring the Wine, Women and Wow! event from 6-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 and the Kent Reporter and the KDP are launching a signature drink recipe and naming contest to start the festivities early.
At the same time President Obama and Congress were locked in combat over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, leaders of state manufacturing associations from across America were meeting right here in Washington.
Mélanie Hope of Kent won the District 32 level of the Toastmasters International Speech Contest, representing the district encompassing Federal Way to Vancouver, Puyallup to the coast including the Key Peninsula.
Gardening usually conjures up thoughts about planting flowers or growing vegetables. However, economic gardening focuses on growing local companies and the local economy. Each type of garden must be sustained. Both take dedication, effort and support. Commitment and passion for your idea must accompany each type of garden. And, you must be prepared for the long haul, because just like gardens, small businesses require a lot of work.
Americans live in an idealistic world where, no matter what happens, we’ll still be able to go home at night and switch on the lights or pull into a filling station and gas up the family SUV.
Some recent activity in the downtown area of Kent has some hopeful about the days ahead.
More than 600 people applied for about 100 ShoWare Center job openings in Kent.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce hosted a speed candidating and networking event July 20 at the Senior Activity Center.
The Kent business Monterey Gourmet Foods, a food processing company based out of California, announced it will be closing its doors.
It’s time for the public to nominate its favorite community-centric corporations for Washington’s highest civics award.
Secretary of State Sam Reed has announced his office will start accepting nominations Friday for a Corporations for Communities 2011 Award. August 31 is the nomination deadline.
The Kent Chamber of Commerce will host a Speed Candidating and Networking Event to meet with Kent City Council candidates.
Kent East Hill Grocery Outlet grand opening
Vision Quest Sport and Fitness has purchased Mieko Fitness of Edmonds, Lake City, Mill Creek and Canyon Park.
As the mayor of a small town in Montana, he put that principle into practice. Buying a new dump truck was not an emergency. If the city didn’t have the money to buy it, the answer was no. Even if state or federal funds were available to make the down payment, if the city couldn’t come up with the rest of the money, the answer was still no.
According to a press release from Jason Alderman with Visa's financial education programs Practical Money Skills for Life, a new survey shows Americans will spend an average of $216 on travel, food, beverages, entertainment, fireworks and other items over the Fourth of July holiday.
Yukon Grill, located at 19033 68th Ave. S. D-108 in the West Valley Business Complex, announced new hours. The restaurant will be open 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Just 19 years old, Rob Hansen had no idea what he would do for work after he broke his neck in a professional motocross racing accident in 1987 that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
Hansen, now president and chief executive officer of Bayview Limousine Service in Tukwila, anticipated a long career in motocross racing until he crashed going over a hill during a race in Richland.
