Kent city officials have decided to keep Safe Havens, the Kent-based domestic-violence visitation and exchange center, open for at least the rest of year and will continue to pursue a long-term operator for the facility.
The annual national food drive is May 8 by the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Postal customers can leave bags or boxes of non-perishable donations on May 8 next to their mailbox for carriers to pick up.
Letter carriers will deliver a bag to customer's mailboxes during the first week of May.
Connect with nature in an urban setting Saturday at the Tukwila Backyard Wildlife Festival.
Now in its 10th year, the festival features all-day fun from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Tukwila Community Center, 12424 42nd Ave. S.
The financial woes for the ShoWare Center in Kent continued in the first three months of this year.
"We are $84,000 in the hole," said Patrick McClusky, ShoWare finance director, at a Thursday meeting of the Public Facilities District board.
The 2010 season turned out to be a golden one for the Kentridge Chatelaines.
The dance team, at 52-members strong, took first and second place in the show and kick categories, respectively, at the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association 4A Dance/Drill Championships in March. In addition to that, the team walked away with the winner's trophy as the academic champions of the meet, with a cumulative grade point average of 3.54.
The count of ballots through May 4 shows voters in Kent, King County Fire District 37 and Covington are overwhelming approving Proposition No. 1 to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
Safe Havens, the Kent-based domestic violence visitation and exchange center, will close for at least one week as Kent city officials decide whether enough private donations have come in to keep the facility going for the rest of the year.
The pieces are coming together for Kent's celebration of all that is about women.
Now in its fifth year, the "Wine Women Wow!" bash will take place 6-10 p.m. May 7 at the Kent ShoWare Center.
The artwork of a Cedar Heights Middle School student in Kent was recently posted on CNN's Web site as part of an article about Anne Frank.
More than 200 Waste Management garbage haulers voted May 2 to ratify a new five-year contract between Teamsters Local 174 and Waste Management.
Early last month, Sunrise Elementary teacher Chris Knutkowski, was named STAR 101.5’s Teacher of the Week in a local contest conducted by the radio show. Knutkowski, a first-grade teacher, was nominated by her student, Zachary Cohen.
Early last month, Sunrise Elementary teacher Chris Knutkowski, was named STAR 101.5’s Teacher of the Week in a local contest conducted by the radio show. Knutkowski, a first-grade teacher, was nominated by her student, Zachary Cohen.
A U.S. District Court judge April 30 in Seattle sentenced a 28-year-old Everett man to six years, five months in prison for human trafficking in connection with forcing a woman to work as prostitute in 2007 and 2008 along Pacific Highway South in Kent and Des Moines.
Census takers will be fanning out into Washington State and knocking on the doors of households that didn’t mail back their 2010 forms beginning May 1.
A King County Superior Court jury in Seattle found a Kent-area man guilty of second-degree murder April 28 for the drowning death of his 3-year-old stepdaughter in 2003 at a pool in his backyard.
Parents and their teen-age children are invited to participate in a community conversation about the dangers of alcohol and prescription-drug use.
The free event runs from 6-8 p.m. May 6 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St., and includes dinner.
Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 negotiators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday night on a new five-year contract for garbage haulers.
Negotiators met for 15 hours on Monday and continued bargaining talks on Tuesday before reaching agreement on a new contract. A federal mediator assisted with the talks.
Voters in Kent, King County Fire District 37 and Covington are overwhelming approving Proposition No. 1 to form a regional fire authority that would merge the Kent Fire Department and Fire District 37.
After the first count of ballots Tuesday night, Proposition No. 1 had received 10,859 (72.96 percent) yes votes and 4,025 (27.04 percent) no votes, according to the King County Elections officials. Ballots had to be postmarked by April 27 to count in the election.
Residents can attend a public hearing before the Kent city hearing examiner about a conditional-use permit application by the city of Kent to add an off-leash dog park at Morrill Meadows Park on the East Hill.
Brandon Fagerlie and Nicholas Lintz, seniors at Kentridge High School, and Alex Pfaff and Michael Moloney, seniors at Kentwood High School, will compete as teams against eight other Washington high schools to diagnose and debug a Ford vehicle in 90 minutes at the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills state finals May 4.
