As photos and videos of his thunderous, smoke-spewing dragster flashed across a screen in a darkened room, Jerry Ruth picked up the mic and tried to put his past into perspective.
It's a show of color and an opportunity for the gay and lesbian community.
The following local students from the Kent area recently graduated from Seattle Pacific University.
A letter from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration threatening to shut down a Kent medical marijuana store because it's too near a school persuaded owner Charles Lambert to close the business.
SuperValu Inc. will close the only Albertsons store in Kent and one of two in Auburn as part of a shut down of 27 stores in Southern California, Oregon and Washington.
Kent East Hill Revitalization (KEHR) invites the public to its inaugural community social from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Benson Plaza Shopping Center, 23617 104th Ave. SE, Kent.
Raise Your Hands for Kids! – a diversity outreach reception for volunteers to be Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) supporters of children – runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12 at Central Area Senior Center, 500 30th Ave. S, Seattle
The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra offers beginning strings and beginning orchestra programs this fall starting Oct. 1.
Taite Pryor has joined the Kent Downtown Partnership as an administrative assistant.
The Greater Kent Historical Society presents Celebrating the History of Kent Past, Present and Future, its annual dinner auction fundraiser Oct. 6.
A Kent park will close starting Monday, Sept. 17 so a contractor can begin work on a $2.65 million project along the Green River to improve the Boeing Levee and provide better flood protection to the Kent Valley.
A celebration of life service for Stacy Ankerfelt begins at 1 p.m. Saturday at Auburn Riverside High School, 501 Oravetz Road.
The U.S. Department of Labor has sued telecommunications provider DirecTV and a Kent-based contractor with the company for allegedly failing to pay employees the federal minimum wage or for overtime when installation technicians worked more than 40 hours per week.
Gov. Chris Gregoire has appointed Kent attorney Mark Albertson to the Green River Community College Board of Trustees. His four-year term begins Oct. 1.
King County prosecutors have charged a 41-year-old Kent man with attempted promoting commercial sex abuse of a minor after he allegedly tried to pick up an undercover cop posing as a 17-year-old girl near the Westlake Center in Seattle.
Singers in fourth grade through college are invited to check out Rainier Youth Choirs during an open rehearsal.
Two families were displaced from their homes following an apartment fire at about 9:37 p.m. Monday in the 23700 block of 101st Place Southeast on Kent’s East Hill.
South County Cats is pleased to announce Pasado’s Safe Haven’s Spay Station will be in Kent on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at King County's Regional Animal Services Pet Adoption Center, 21615 64th Ave. S.
Visually impaired students of the Washington State School for the Blind got a special introduction to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's new circus Barnum Bash on Friday at ShoWare.
Fewer and fewer giant sandbags are blocking the Green River Trail in Kent.
