The Chinook District of Garden Clubs, consisting of 12 South King County garden clubs, will meet for its general meeting/luncheon 10 a.m. Feb. 2 at Grace Lutheran Church, 22975-24th Ave S., in Des Moines.
The Kent City Council has approved a 35-foot height limit on buildings constructed on property within 300 feet of single-family residential zones.
The Council passed the ordinance at its Jan. 4 meeting. The ordinance becomes effective Feb. 3. The city had no previous height limit on buildings.
The Kent Predators of the Indoor Football League will run tryouts for players Jan. 22 at French Field, next to Kent-Meridian High School.
Registration starts at 10 a.m. followed by tryouts at 11 a.m.
The sessions will include the 40-yard dash, a cone drill, position drills and one-on-one drills.
January is National Mentor’s Month, and locally, Communities In Schools of Kent is the local non-profit that works with the Kent School District, serving students in Kent, Renton and Covington, by providing mentors and facilitating internships.
The Corps of Engineers’ Seattle District has sent out flood fight teams to the Yakima, White/Puyallup, Green, Snohomish, Skagit and Chehalis River basins, and the Corps' Emergency Operations Center and Reservoir Control Center are in 24-hour operation as warm heavy rainfall continues in western Washington.
The King County Flood Warning Center closed Saturday morning, because river flows at that time were stable and significant rainfall is not expected for the next several hours.
Members of the Washington State Senate Republican Caucus have named Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, as the deputy Republican leader on the Senate Transportation Committee.
Fain, the youngest of the newly elected Senate Republicans sworn into office Jan. 10, the first day of the 2011 legislative session, said he’s looking forward to finding solutions to state problems with a new generation’s perspective.
State Rep. Tina Orwall may be going into her second term in Olympia, but it’s a safe bet this session won’t be anything like her last.
Although legislators had painful cuts to contend with last session, this go ‘round they will be balancing a biennial budget that has a $4.6 billion gap. And that’s in addition to making cuts in the remainder of this year’s budget, which ends June 30 and is $1.1 billion in the hole.
Four King County jail corrections officers were injured in a fight with an inmate at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Two officers were transported to Valley Medical Center in Renton after the Jan. 11 incident while the other two were treated the next day by their personal doctors, said Cmdr. Williams Hayes, spokesman for the RJC jail.
A 53-year-old Des Moines woman suspected in as many as 15 bank robberies in the Seattle area was arrested Jan. 11 by Kent Police for investigation of robbing an East Hill bank.
A series of rain storms with warm temperatures will be impacting Western Washington through the upcoming weekend and into early next week.
For this upcoming period, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers does not expect the amount of precipitation in the basins of the Green and White rivers to create operational challenges for its dams.
Kent Police arrested a 26-year-old man for investigation of aiming a firearm in connection with a road rage dispute between two vehicles on the West Hill.
Officers received a 911 call from a driver that a passenger in a vehicle had aimed a handgun at him at about 10:33 a.m. Dec. 28 near South 260th Street and Pacific Highway South, according to the police report.
The Kent Predators have hired Keith Evans to coach the pro Indoor Football League team this season.
Evans coached the Wenatchee Venom of the American Indoor Football Association last year and has coaching experience with several other teams, according to a Jan. 13 Predators media release to announce his signing.
Law enforcement officials soon will transfer Shawn David Gulseth from a California jail to King County to face a first-degree murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend at a Kent apartment.
Gulseth, 40, of Kent, waived an extradition hearing Thursday in Mendocino County, Calif., according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Jeff Scott bought the Kent Predators Indoor Football League team because he believes it is "a viable product that the community wants."
Scott, of Renton, a former owner and coach with the King County Jaguars semipro football team that played in Kent, is the new majority owner who along with four partners helped make sure the Predators will return for the 2011 IFL season.
The 40-year-old Kent man charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing death of his Kent girlfriend was arrested Tuesday after officers from three California police agencies found him living under a bridge in the small town of Willits in Northern California.
Kentwood High School went on lockdown this morning, after a student reported being threatened in the school parking lot.
The lockdown, which took place at 10 a.m., was lifted after 45 minutes, as local law enforcement and district safety officers investigated.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke will deliver her annual State of the City address at 11:30 a.m Feb. 2 at the Kent Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St.
Most Kent customers will see decreased garbage and recycling rates when the city's new contract begins April 1 with Allied Waste.
King County prosecutors filed a first-degree murder charge against a 40-year-old Kent man in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend, a 45-year-old Kent woman found dead Dec. 21 in her apartment.
