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Kent Reporter site sees major upgrade

Anyone who has logged onto www.kentreporter.com recently will have noticed a few changes.

  • Aug 5, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Kent Police Officer Randy Brennan stands at the site where police arrested more than 100 people for illegal street racing in a private lot at 20300  59th Pl. S.

Street racing? No more for Kent

Kent Police are cracking down on illegal street racing in the city’s industrial valley.

Kent Police Officer Randy Brennan stands at the site where police arrested more than 100 people for illegal street racing in a private lot at 20300  59th Pl. S.
Nell Gates of Centerville

‘Joey’s Angels’ bring Kent woman hope

They called themselves Joey’s Angels.

  • Aug 2, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Nell Gates of Centerville
Tammy Heldt

Recreation is Kent city worker’s full-time job

There is something for everyone in the city of Kent’s recreation program because of Tammy Heldt.

Tammy Heldt
Any Chung

Kent, Auburn embark on international relations

South King County might not seem like a major crossroads for international relations.

Any Chung
Kent Police Department had a press conference July 30 to announce formation of a regional car-theft task force. Kent Police Lt. Bob Holt

Regional task force to put the brakes on car theft

Police agencies throughout South King County expect to be catching a lot more car thieves soon.

Kent Police Department had a press conference July 30 to announce formation of a regional car-theft task force. Kent Police Lt. Bob Holt

Kent Police on prowl for gas-card thief

Kent Police are looking for a 44-year-old Federal Way man in connection with the recent theft of more than $250,000 of diesel fuel from Pacific Pride, a commercial fuel distributor with locations in Kent and other nearby cities.

  • Jul 31, 2008
  • BY Wire Service

Arrest follows threatening display of gun | Kent Police Blotter

A passenger in a Jeep Cherokee reportedly pointed a handgun at a man after a fight at about 3 p.m. July 17 at a gas station in the 1500 block of West Meeker Street.

King County Superior Court Judge Richard McDermott announces a sentence for Clayton MacDonald Thursday at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. McDermott acknowledged the series of tragedies that had befallen MacDonald’s family

Kent teen gets 7 years in shooting death of friend

The lives of two families were forever changed because of the shooting death of 16-year-old Kyle Weis by his friend Clayton MacDonald on the morning of Nov. 5, 2007 at a Kent condominium.

King County Superior Court Judge Richard McDermott announces a sentence for Clayton MacDonald Thursday at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. McDermott acknowledged the series of tragedies that had befallen MacDonald’s family
Kentridge High School science teacher Madonna Brinkmann participates in a lab experiment during the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Science Education Partnership workshop last week. Brinkmann is one of about 30 area teachers to participate in the workshop

Science teachers take their work to the lab

Two Kent teachers are among approximately 30 area science educators who spent part of their summer vacation learning ways to get students more excited about science.

  • Jul 29, 2008
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Kentridge High School science teacher Madonna Brinkmann participates in a lab experiment during the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Science Education Partnership workshop last week. Brinkmann is one of about 30 area teachers to participate in the workshop

Street racing in Kent: Police bust 80

Kent Police and the Washington State Patrol cited 80 people for investigation of trespassing during a street-racing bust at about 12:10 a.m. Saturday at a parking lot of a business in the 20300 block of 59th Place South.

  • Jul 29, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Marilynn McAdoo

Kent Historical Museum: It’s time to get social for summer

The Kent Historical Museum will invite residents for a blast from the past Aug. 9 at its sixth-annual Antique Automobile Show & Ice Cream Social.

  • Jul 26, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Marilynn McAdoo
Anton Leof

iQ Academy offers Kent schooling whenever, wherever

Kent students in grades 7-12 will have an another alternative to brick-and-mortar classrooms come next school year.

  • Jul 24, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Anton Leof

Kent: Man stabbed in botched robbery, drives self to hospital

A man drove himself to the hospital July 8 after he sustained a stab wound to the chest when two men reportedly attempted to rob him at about 1 a.m. at a Kent store parking lot in the 25600 block of 104th Avenue Southeast.

Jennifer Harrell poses in the window of a greenhouse at the city’s nursery

Nursery manager Harrell keeps Kent in the green

When Jennifer Harrell plants a tree, birds pay attention.

Jennifer Harrell poses in the window of a greenhouse at the city’s nursery
Work crews were out in force Tuesday doing repair work to the flood-control levee near the Riverbend Golf Course in Kent. A great deal more work needs to be done on levees throughout the Green River Valley

Kent, county tackle levee-repair work

The Green River Valley needs the river to run through it, not over it.

Work crews were out in force Tuesday doing repair work to the flood-control levee near the Riverbend Golf Course in Kent. A great deal more work needs to be done on levees throughout the Green River Valley
Andrew Ciarrocchi

Westfield Southcenter to celebrate expansion Friday

A shopping destination for south King County has just gotten bigger. A lot bigger. Westfield Southcenter, a major retail complex in Tukwila, will celebrate completion of its $240 million expansion project Friday. The grand opening will acquaint visitors with a longtime shopping center that has expanded by 400,000 square feet and 75 new specialty shops.

  • Jul 22, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Andrew Ciarrocchi

Briefly

Residents will be able to drop off hazardous household waste items 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday at the parking lot of the East Hill Fred Meyer store, 10201 S.E. 240th St.

  • Jul 22, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
An unidentified fifth-grader and father watch a Tacoma Rainiers baseball game this spring. Part of the Rainiers All-Star Student Program

Kent students have a ball with schoolwork

Take me out to the ball game?

  • Jul 22, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
An unidentified fifth-grader and father watch a Tacoma Rainiers baseball game this spring. Part of the Rainiers All-Star Student Program
Left to right: Cheryl Hanna

National Night Out is Aug. 5

Neighborhoods are invited to participate Aug. 5 in the City of Kent’s National Night Out program, designed to fight crime.

  • Jul 22, 2008
  • BY Wire Service
Left to right: Cheryl Hanna