Kentwood hosts Gig Harbor tonight in a district football playoff game at French Field. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
South Puget Sound League North girls soccer teams represented the division well in the league seeding games Wednesday night.
Kentwood, Kentridge, Tahoma and Kentlake all won on the road Wednesday.
Difficult financial situations are essentially routine in the current economy and the Covington City Council faces a particularly tough one when it comes to funding its Community Park project.
Among the options on the table for the city is to raise its utility tax a half percent, from 5.5 percent to 6 percent, in order to bring in additional cash to the city’s coffers. The city will host a public hearing on the topic at 6 p.m. on Nov. 8 and will vote on an ordinance Nov. 22.
It’s time now for the Tahoma School Board of Directors to consider its next step based on input from an ad hoc student housing committee.
The board will review the research and suggestions that the committee put together at its Nov. 8 meeting and go from there to begin the process of deciding what to do, explained district spokesman Kevin Patterson.
Our first Kentlake Site Council meeting of the school year on Wednesday kind of felt like the first day back at school after summer vacation.
There was some review from last year before we moved on to new information.
Principal Joe Potts went over the new three-pronged organizational structure of the school which is the administration, the Instructional Leadership Team and the Site Council.
Turns out the first relay of the meet could have been a predictor of the top five at the West Central District girls swim championship meet Friday and Saturday at Rogers High School in Puyallup.
Mount Rainier, which easily won the championship with 215 points, 200 yard medley relay ahead of Kentlake which finished second in the meet as well with 169 points.
As the dust settled on the gridiron at the end of the night on Oct. 28 the South Puget Sound League North Division playoff picture became clear.
With a little luck and forward Mykala Benjamin in the right place at the right time, Kentwood beat Tahoma for the second time this season on the soccer pitch, ensuring sole possession of first place in the South Puget Sound League North.
In the final game of the regular season Kentlake hopes to stay undefeated with a win against South Puget Sound League North Division rival Kent-Meridian.
Eric Chudler hopped on one foot, talked to the audience and juggled simultaneously on the stage of the Kentlake High Performing Arts Center.
Chudler, a research associate professor in the bioengineering department at the University of Washington faculty, did that trick to demonstrate the power of the brain. He is the first speaker of a year-long series.
At the SPSL girls swim and dive championship meet the top four teams were from the North: Mount Rainier ran away with it tallying 264 points followed by Kentridge (159), Kentlake (157) and Tahoma (138).
Kentlake scored 37 points in the first half en route to a 58-26 victory Thursday night over South Puget Sound League South opponent Emerald Ridge.
Emerald Ridge, 2-5 in the South Puget Sound League South, travels to French Field tonight to take on undefeated Kentlake, which is 7-0 in the SPSL North.
Covington has weathered the economic downturn and could, with continued diligence, survive until the economy bounces back.
That’s what City Manager Derek Matheson told the City Council on Oct. 10 during his 2012 draft budget presentation.
Anyone who counted out Kentwood at the start of the volleyball season in September may be surprised to see it at the top of the division standings.
Kentwood, battling for a playoff spot, takes on cross-town rival Kent-Meridian tonight.
Kentlake ended a grueling four-game stretch to clinch the South Puget Sound League North Division with a 10-7 victory over Auburn Thursday night at French Field.
Kentlake hosts Auburn at French Field for a high school football action.
Destination Covington was all about opportunities and how to make the most of them during the next 20 years.
The event — jointly hosted by the city of Covington, the Covington Economic Development Council and the Covington Chamber of Commerce — brought together a diverse group of more than 60 attendees to learn about economic development in the past, present and future in Covington.
In the past week Kentridge has beaten both of the teams that played in the girls soccer 4A state championship a year ago, including a 2-1 victory Tuesday night over Kentwood.
