The Kent Fire Department recognized several individuals at its annual awards ceremony earlier this month for their contributions in 2009 to the community and department.
Negotiators from Waste Management and Teamsters Local 174 were to meet Monday morning with a federal mediator in an effort to resolve the contract dispute between the company and garbage haulers.
Brenda Jacober looked out the window of her first-floor city clerk's office at Kent City Hall and thought back to when she first took a part-time job with the city in 1975.
"I looked around and thought it would be a nice place to spend my days," said Jacober during an interview earlier this month at her office. "Little did I know I'd spend a lot of them."
If next year's budget projections remain as they are now, the Kent School District is lined up for layoffs.
Unless immediate funding can be found, Safe Havens, the Kent-based domestic violence visitation and exchange center, will close its doors at the end of April.
A 24-year-old Kent man was killed when he crashed his car into a home at about 12:24 a.m. Thursday in the 28200 block of 144th Avenue Southeast on the East Hill of Kent.
After waiting nearly three years for a new developer to come forward, Kent City Council members voted unanimously earlier this month to give the mayor and city attorney authority to begin foreclosure proceedings on the unfinished parking garage at Fourth Avenue and West Smith Street.
Representatives Upthegrove and Orwall claim that our state government cut $3 billion from the state budget last year. If that budget was actually $3 billion less than the previous budget then I commend them. If not, they lied to us.
The Kent City Council is going to let voters decide if they want to tax themselves under the Regional Fire Authority plan.
She saw a need and started a non-profit.
That's the short version of the story of Jennifer Levy, the Kentwood High School graduate who will be on her way to Argentina this week, to help a group of struggling senior citizens.
The Kent teachers union, called the Kent Education Association, conducted a rally Wednesday evening outside district headquarters, to protest the board's anticipated budget cuts that were to be made that evening. Follow the Kent Reporter for a story and updates.
Waste Management garbage haulers plan to end their strike at midnight and return to work Friday, Teamsters Local 174 officials announced Thursday afternoon.
A major commercial development planned for the East Hill on the southern edge of Kent took another step forward this week.
Waste Management will not pick up any garbage or recyclables Thursday at Kent commercial and multi-family customers because of the strike Wednesday by Teamsters Local 174 garbage haulers.
Seven members of the Kent Senior Activity Center let a City Council committee know Tuesday that they oppose the proposed cuts to the lunch subsidy program at the facility.
A strike Wednesday by Waste Management garbage haulers has the potential to impact more than 1,300 commercial customers and 135 multi-family customers in Kent.
The drivers went on strike at about 10:30 a.m.
Kent teachers will protest what their union leadership is calling "the false choice district administrators are presenting to School Board members" regarding the Kent School District budget.
A 17-year-old Federal Way boy remained in critical condition Wednesday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after a shooting and fight April 18 on the West Hill of Kent that also injured another teen-age boy and two Kent men.
On April 20, local federal lawmakers made a plea for more funds to go into fixes for the Howard Hanson Dam.
The following Kent students are top placers at the Green River Music Education Association’s Solo and Ensemble Competitions in band, orchestra, voice and piano. The region includes Kent, Auburn and Enumclaw School Districts.
