Preliminary scores for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning are out, with 85 percent of students statewide passing the test and the Kent and Tahoma school districts more than keeping pace.
The Des Moines Marina was crowded June 7, but the event didn’t call for aquatic sports.
Included among the eye candy at the opening of the new Town Square Plaza in downtown Kent June 28 will be a piece of art created by Kent-Meridian High School students — a big piece of art.
When Mark Haddock leaves his Kent School District position this year, he’ll leave local schools on a more level playing field than when he arrived.
Kent businesses and residents have more than doubled the amount of donations in the last two weeks to try to keep the community’s Fourth of July Splash fireworks show at Lake Meridian Park as big as before.
Police arrested a man for investigation of harassment June 11 after a woman reported that he had made threatening comments to her as she waited with her children for a bus at 10:40 p.m. June 11 in the 1200 block of Central Avenue North. The man also claimed to have a gun in his vehicle, she said.
An 86-year-old woman drowned Friday night at the Des Moines Marina after the sport utility vehicle she was riding in drove off the dock and plunged into the Puget Sound.
In a few months, the privilege of using the boat launch at Lake Meridian might cost a few dollars.
City of Kent staffers have decided to drop out of a group of South King County cities that want to build a new regional jail.
City officials decided the current Kent jail could serve the city’s needs for the next several years without spending as much as $13 million on a new jail.
Nobody watches the city of Kent as closely as Seth Frankel.
Kent Police cited five employees at five businesses for reportedly furnishing liquor to minors during a June 14 town-wide compliance check at 21 stores, restaurants and bars.
A heavy truck load and a forgotten delivery invoice reportedly led to a domestic dispute between a husband and wife truck-driving team at 6:17 a.m. June 9 near a Kent warehouse in the 22800 block of 54th Avenue South.
The Kent City Council picked seven finalists on Tuesday for its vacant Council position.
Meadow Ridge Elementary School students, teachers and parents wore a path around the school June 16 as they braved the heat on their feet for an hour for the benefit of one of their suffering own.
Kent Covenant has expanded its facilities, and it's opening them to the community Sunday with a party and free food.
The Kiwanis Club of Kent commended 13 Kent School District students for their exceptional writing skills, compassion and commitment to language arts June 13 at an annual awards luncheon at the Golden Steer Steakhouse in Kent.
The front walkway of Covington Christian Fellowship Church became 100 flowers prettier June 10, thanks to a group of Kent seniors and students working side by side in one “Labor of Love.”
Residents of Radcliffe Place Senior Apartments in Kent and special-needs students in the third-through-sixth grades at Meridian Elementary School gathered that day to plant flowers and enjoy the company of each other’s generation despite the cold, wet weather.
How do you get kids to read more books? Make it a competition.
Kent School District elementary schools did just that at the seventh-annual district Battle of the Books June 6, bringing teams from all 28 grade schools together to test their knowledge of a long list of children’s tomes.
The original developer is officially out of the unfinished parking garage in downtown Kent.
But city officials said it remains uncertain when a new developer might be found to take over the project at Fourth Avenue and West Street that remains entangled in legal battles.
Gas prices have at least one Kent resident resorting to desperate measures. That and more from a smattering of incident reports filed by the Kent Police Department.
