Ashley Skinner, a student at Kentlake High School, has been selected as the student president of the Washington Vocational Sports Medicine Association.
Rainier Christian Schools will be host a school and community prayer walk May 17 to emphasize prayer’s “importance.”
Regardless of sport or gender, there hasn’t been a more successful team in the state the last several years than the Kent Crusaders girls rugby team.
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At the start of the school’s second decade, the Kentlake Falcons are making their first trip to the boys soccer playoffs.
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The race for the South Puget Sound League North Division fastpitch playoffs turned into a battle of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Kentlake, Kentwood and Kentridge on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.
Sometimes, things have a way of falling into place no matter how muddled they seem.
State Rep. Geoff Simpson was arrested last Sunday by King County Sheriff deputies and booked into the county jail in Seattle on suspicion of fourth-degree assault.
New cat cages, dog runs and more employees are among the upgrades at King County’s animal shelters to be funded by nearly $1 million approved this week by the County Council.
Voters in King County Fire District 17 will be asked in a special election on May 20 whether the district should merge into King County Fire District 44.
Slashes in the King County budget may force Sheriff Sue Rahr to cut as many as 100 deputies from the roster.
Whirring of helicopter blades overhead in this area aren’t a figment of your imagination. It’s Guardian One, the King County Sheriff Department’s patrol chopper.
Dr. Michael DeBakey, the renowned heart surgeon, received the Congressional Medal of Honor recently. He’s going to be a hundred years old this year, so apparently somebody figured they better get to it.
Kent School District superintendent Barbara Grohe has announced her upcoming retirement, which will be effective June 2009.
Russ Hayden can’t help but smile these days. Success has a way of doing that to a coach.
King County Executive Ron Sims has proposed a sewer rate increase that he said would soften the economic impact on ratepayers who already “are feeling the pinch.”
I am writing to extend my thanks to the city of Maple Valley and Clear Channel Outdoor for listening to community response and removing a controversial billboard that was, until recently, displayed near the 7-11 store on State Route 169 and Witte Road. I am also writing to ask the organization responsible to reconsider their message and their choice of venue, so that other communities might be prevented from being as offended as I was by the billboard.
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A new column by Tiffany Doerr Guerzon makes its debut in today’s Reporter. Guerzon will write on topics related to parenting, home economics and consumer issues. She lives in Maple Valley with her husband and three children. In addition to her writing, she is a certified physician assistant and worked in family practice for several years before stepping away six years ago to be at home with her children – two daughters who are 8 and 4 years old and a son who is a month short of his first birthday. Besides spending a lot of time with her family, her interests include organic gardening, scrapbooking, reading and ballroom dancing.