It's time for the Kent Community Science Night at Meridian Meridian Middle School. The free event, offered Tuesday in conjunction with the Pacific Science Center, is free of charge. Included are exhibits, presentations and lessons given by the teaching staff of PSC's outreach program, Science On Wheels. There will be exhibits in Spanish as well as English.
Participants this year at The Relay for Life of Kent blew away expectations of event organizers by raising more than $222,000 June 4-5 at French Field to support cancer research.
Organizers set a goal to raise $195,000 this year, similar to the amount hit in 2009.
"We completely shattered our goals," said Lance Goodwin, event chairman, during a phone interview June 7. "That's pretty exciting for us."
Nearly 1,400 participants on 96 teams walked in the 12th annual Relay for Life of Kent June 4-5 at French Field at Kent-Meridian High School.
A summary of local, county and federal races, and who has filed to run for them in the Aug. 17 primary.
Kent teenager Jayne Johnson knows intimately the experience of living with Severe Chronic Neutropenia Kostmann’s Syndrome – a condition that means her bone marrow doesn’t work right, and her immune system is failing.
But Dr. Akiko Shimamura of Seattle Children’s Hospital understands the disease on a level that is nearly as intimate.
She has spent years studying it.
Looking for something fun for the youngsters to do this summer?
Why not have them take the Summer Challenge?
Kent 4 Health, a grassroots organization focused on improving the health and quality of life of Kent citizens, is helping to sponsor the “Cruzin’ Passport Summer Challenge.”
Jayne Johnson’s house is like that of most 16-year-olds.
There’s a television in the family room, and a computer well-stocked with video games in the den.
There are her two wiggly little dogs, Taffy and Tyrone, whom she dotes on.
There is her mom, Joey Sexton, who loves her very much.
But for Jayne, that’s where her life, and that of a normal 16-year-old’s, sharply diverge.
Jayne, one of a few thousand people in the world with a rare and possibly fatal bone-marrow disorder, has a house that is a combination sanctuary and prison.
Traffic buzzes by Panther Lake resident John Gehlman as he walks along the sidewalk next to the heavily traveled Benson Highway near Southeast 224th Street.
Jay Maebori, Kent School District’s Teacher of the Year, was selected as the Regional Teacher of the Year by Puget Sound Educational Service District.
A 40-year-old Kent-area man was sentenced June 18 to 50 years in prison for killing his 3-year-old stepdaughter in 2003 in an attempt to recover life insurance money from the girl's death.
Cheryl dos Remédios pointed to where the water and rocks should be as she stopped the afternoon of June 17 between the sculpted split-ring berms at Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks Park on the eastern edge of downtown Kent.
Want to know the people in your Kent neighborhood better? Then sign up with the city of Kent for National Night Out, which takes place Aug. 3.
It is going to be a farewell concert of sorts for Kent saxophonist Darren Motamedy at the third annual Evening of Jazz and Art June 24 at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
Motamedy, the 2008 Kent School District teacher of the year for his work as a band instructor at several elementary schools, will move this summer to Las Vegas to teach band and jazz band at a middle school there.
King County Metro Transit is launching an “In Motion” program on Kent’s East Hill to entice residents to get around by walking, cycling, riding the bus or train, and sharing rides.
For a lot of youngsters, running laps around a field can feel like a chore.
Not so for a group of girls at Sunnycrest Elementary School in Kent.
For 10 weeks, the students gathered two afternoons each week to stretch and put in the laps around the playfield at their school.
Sure it was hard, and they sweated. But there was something extra special that kept them going.
Nearly four weeks after the killing of Seth Frankel, 41, a video program coordinator for the city of Kent, Auburn Police continue to investigate the case.
Mill Creek Middle School teacher J.P. Frame may have won a state award for his dedication to teaching history, but aside from his students and colleagues, there are two people to whom he feels a special sense of gratitude:
His grandmothers, Sis and Dorothy.
Alajawan Brown's homicide wasn't random.
He was targeted – by mistake, said King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg Thursday in announcing the filing of first-degree murder charges against Curtis John Walker, 35, of Kent.
Join State Rep. Dave Upthegrove, Kent Reporter Publisher Polly Shepherd and Editor Laura Pierce for lunch noon Friday at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
With nine weeks of training behind them, a group of Kent-area residents put their new skills into action June 6, participating in the Weight Watchers second-annual Walk-It Challenge.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke and Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan presented awards for the Keep a Friend Alive Poster Contest at the May 1 City Council meeting.
