Due to snow and ice concerns South 208th Street is closed from 96th Avenue South to 92nd Avenue South. The road will be re-opened as soon as conditions improve and it can be cleared for safe travel.
Kent School District is closing early today, Nov. 22, due to weather conditions. Group A Elementary schools were already scheduled to close 2.5 hours early and will do so; however parent conferences are cancelled.
Nic Byrd speaks confidently about the chances his three-member Kent band Jobe Himself can make it professionally.
In fact, Byrd believes the band just might be hitting the stage at the right time with what he describes as a "heavily blues-influenced grunge" sound.
"Soundgarden and The Smashing Pumpkins are back together," said Byrd, 26, guitarist, lead singer and manager of the band. "Grunge is coming back in a big way. We might be what people want to hear."
Kent city officials will open the Severe Weather Shelter downtown at Kent Lutheran Church Monday and Tuesday nights for the homeless because of the cold weather.
Due to snow during the morning commute, King County Metro Transit started service Monday with buses in all areas on snow routing. Bus riders should check www.kingcounty.gov/metro/snow for the most current status of Metro service before traveling on Monday.
The final pieces are falling into place for a seriously ill Kent teenager to receive a lifesaving transplant.
Jayne Johnson, 16, who suffers from a rare illness called Severe Chronic Neutropenia Kostman's Syndrome, is being admitted Sunday, Nov. 21, to Seattle Children's Hospital to begin preparations for a long-awaited stem-cell transplant.
Three Kent Police officers have been cleared by an inquest jury, for the July 7 shooting of a domestic-violence suspect in Kent.
The Kent Reporter will have a local story later today on the findings of the inquest jury.
Here is the Seattle Times story on the event.
Kent Fire responded to a blaze Thursday night in a vacant home on 1100 block of Southeast 208th St.
There were no injuries, nor were there any pets located at the one-story rambler home, which apparently had been left vacant for some time.
(This is the second in a several-part series about Kent’s recently passed traffic-impact fees, and the balance that must be struck between bringing in development and the cost for expanded infrastructure.)
A comparison of how Kent's current transportation-impact fees stack up to the fees charged by other cities in the region. The City of Renton is not listed because comparison is more complex - the city charges on a per-head basis of employees, in addition to calculating trip fees on a relatively low rate of $75 per trip.
(This is an informational overview of the transportation-impact fees for the City of Kent that went into effect in August.)
Seattle & King County will offer free flu vaccinations for adults and children at special clinics in Des Moines and Shoreline from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 20. The clinics are an opportunity for people who do not have health insurance to cover the cost of flu vaccination.
Kent City Council members voted unanimously to defer a planned annual increase in storm drainage rates originally scheduled to take effect January 1, 2011.
Kent’s drainage system alleviates potential flooding following a rain storm. The rates charged fund the operations and maintenance of that system which includes the Green River levees, creeks, retention ponds, and 300 miles of pipe systems and storm water pump stations.
Who knows someone who has attempted suicide?”
A forest of hands rose upward.
“Who knows someone who has died from suicide?”
A number of hands slowly rose for a second time.
For activist Heather Carter, the audience at the Saltwater Universalist Unitarian Church in Des Moines Tuesday night was highly responsive. And that was critical – for Carter, 38, was there to speak about suicide in the teenage gay, lesbian, transgendered and questioning community (a demographic known by the acronym LGBTQ.)
Lynn Pittier wants other elderly drivers to know about her experience with Kent Police that she said left her "humiliated."
Pittier, 65, of Burien, believes police went too far when they handcuffed her and arrested her Aug. 23 for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Police initially pulled her over along Pacific Highway South for using her high beams and driving too slowly.
An estimated 3,000 customers were without power in Kent after a windstorm blew through town Monday night.
Many of those customers were still without power Tuesday morning but most had power restored by Tuesday afternoon.
As recent news headlines have shown, bullying can happen in any school and any community. This school year, Kent Phoenix Academy is taking proactive steps to stop and prevent bullying by adopting the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. This research-based, school-wide “systems-change” program has been used successfully in schools nationally and internationally.
Kent Police are investigating the circumstances of an early-morning traffic accident Monday that sent a pedestrian to Harborview Medical Center. The victim, a 54-year-old Kent man, is being treated for serious injuries.
The Kent Sunrise Rotary Club will recognize six people for their contributions and/or volunteer work in the community at its annual Harvest for the Community dinner auction Nov. 6 at the ShoWare Center.
A fundraiser for 10-year-old Cullen Steele, a Kent boy needing a double lung-heart transplant, will run from noon to dusk Nov. 21 at TOP Food & Drug in Lakeland Hills.
