It seems like Kentlake’s boys swim team has bounced back after a couple of bumps during the regular season thanks to a fourth place finish at the South Puget Sound League meet at Rogers High School Jan. 28-29.
Katie Buskey, a senior captain on Tahoma High’s girls basketball team, had pink laces in her blue Nike high tops when I saw the squad play at Kentlake on Jan. 11.
During the game I remembered admiring her shoes from the stands — blue is my favorite color — and after the Bears won I interviewed Buskey for a story.
Covington’s presence on the web will be changing soon thanks to a redesign of the city’s website set to launch Feb. 1.
As the regular season wrapped up, Tahoma and Kentlake’s boys swim coaches had much to be proud of heading into postseason meets.
Slow starts seem to be a common theme for Tahoma’s girls basketball team.
Tuesday night against Kentridge at home, Tahoma struggled to find rhythm offensively, but stayed in the game in the first half thanks to an aggressive defense that created turnovers and eventually led to the kind of transition offense head coach Keith Wasberg likes to see.
The Bears put together an 8-0 run in the last minute and 44 seconds of the first half and never looked back, putting together a 51-37 victory.
Take classes at Kentlake High but also earn college credit.
Students have long earned credit through Advanced Placement exams. More recently, though, Kentlake has offered University of Washington classes — as do all of the high schools in the Kent School District — in United States history, Spanish, French and last year oceanography was added to the roster.
Volunteers with the VOTE committee are gearing up for an election campaign.
The school board will vote on the bond at its Jan. 25 meeting with it potentially going to voters at about $120 million.
Rene Mahnke worked for two years to save up enough money to spend a year as an exchange student in the United States.
Mahnke, 17, had first visited the states from his home town of Hamburg, Germany, in 2005. He has an uncle who lives in San Diego.
Tahoma High’s wrestling team has left one team after another reeling this season.
First it was Kentwood in December. Then last week, in what was one of the biggest South Puget Sound League North Division dual meets of the season, Auburn fell to Tahoma, 55-19.
Tahoma High’s We the People team has earned the title of state champions again.
On Jan. 8 the group, which has spent many hours preparing for the mock Congressional debate competition, beat out Central Kitsap, Heritage, Evergreen, Mount Rainier, Peninsula and River’s Edge for the title.
Just a few months after celebrating its fifth anniversary Dace’s Rock ‘N’ More got a gift from the IRS: its 501(c)3 tax exempt status as a nonprofit.
Jason Jones headed to Las Vegas with his mother, Cheryl Jones, but not for the glitz and glamor of the city built on gaming and showgirls.
Chris Powers knew the Eastern Washington University football team could come back from a 19-0 deficit against Delaware in the national championship game.
Tahoma bounced back from a tough loss on Jan. 7 to Kentwood with a double digit victory, 54-40, over Kentlake on the road on Tuesday night.
Makayla Phillips has been involved in martial arts long before her first clear memory.
Her parents own Phillips Tae Kwon Do in Maple Valley and Makayla, now 19, began learning the martial art born in Korea at the tender age of 1 her father John Phillips explained.
Shayne Willis was charged Monday, Jan. 3, with two counts of assault in the first degree by the King County Prosecutor’s Office for shooting a 19-year-old man and his 16-year-old girlfriend after an argument about gang affiliation on the Lake Wilderness Trail on Dec. 28.
The 18-year-old who is accused of shooting another teenager on the Lake Wilderness Trail in Maple Valley on Tuesday is being held on $250,000 bail, according to information provided by the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
Eastern Washington University’s football team will be making its first appearance in a national title game and Tahoma High graduate Chris Powers will be there snapping the ball on Jan. 7 in Frisco, Texas.
Math can cause amazement and it did on Dec. 10 in the Tahoma School District when more than 80 people participated in the district’s first math competition.
A 19-year-old man and 16 year old girl were shot following an argument on the Lake Wilderness Trail near the Katesridge neighborhood in Maple Valley Tuesday afternoon.
