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Renton School District fund raises $200,000
The Friends of Renton Schools Fund collected about $197,000 in pledges and cash for its first fundraiser Monday.…
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Wonderland Estates mobile home park celebrates 2 years of preservation
While pancake breakfasts once made great fundraisers for an endangered mobile-home park, they’ve now become a way of…
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Renton’s first indie craft and music festival, UnDisCoVerEd
Two young businesses owners are putting their crafts together to form Renton's first indie festival and craft show,…
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Music in Renton for May
May’s local music lineup for Renton venues and bands: Tyrannosaurus Records 914 S. Third St., Renton Contact: tyrannosaurusrecords.blogspot.com,…
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Bill Gates Sr. applauds Renton schools, pledges $10,000 to new fund
Bill Gates Sr. kicked off the Friends of Renton Schools' first fundraiser with a keynote speech. The fund…
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Renton High senior named one of 1,000 Gates scholars worldwide
A Renton High School senior was named a 2010 Gates Millennium Scholar. Lindsay Dacuan will be one of…
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Renton School District honors teachers, staff
The Renton School District announced its Outstanding Employees Award winners for the 2009-2010 school year. The annual awards…
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Hundreds attend Renton Spring Festival
The Renton Spring Festival ended with a bang. That is a bang of lightning and a cloud burst…
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Black River horticulture class helped her ‘get’ science
When senior Deseree Moore joined the horticulture program at Black River High School, she had failed most of…
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RENTON BLOTTER: Arson, bar fight and a drive-by shooting
The following information was compiled from City of Renton police reports: Walgreens arson A fire started in the…
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Silversmith Speech is a debate club for homeschoolers
The Silversmith Speech and Debate Club, for Christian homeschool students in South King County, competed at its regional…
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Decision to close Black River High leaves students and teachers angry, dismayed
Renton teachers and families packed a school board meeting Wednesday night with angry and sad words about the…
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Hazen’s DECA team goes to national competition
Dressed in knee-length skirts and ties, a group of Renton teens could easily be confused for university business…
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Mama Luvs reusable snack bags; see them at Renton Spring Fest
What started as a quest to save landfills from hundreds of plastic baggies led two mothers to open…
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Seahawks 12k draws about 2,000
About 2,000 runners filled the streets and paths in North Renton last weekend to raise money for the…
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Renton’s EriAm Sisters make top-10 list, record deal coming
The Renton-based EriAm Sisters had their first song climb the charts to number 6 at an Alabama radio…
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Exene Cervenka to play at Tyrranosaurus Records
Exene Cervenka is scheduled to perform at Renton's Tyrranosaurus Records April 17.
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Renton recording studio looks to get kids off the streets and lead others to do the same
Renton's youth are finding their voices and learning how to shout out on behalf of others. "We complain…
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Truck takes out bus stop, injures teen on Rainier Ave
A truck rammed into a bus stop injuring a 16-year-old boy on the 700 block of Rainier Avenue…
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Naan-N-Curry in a hurry, Indian and Pakistani restaurant remodels for lunch crowd
One Renton chef is putting the words “fast lunch” and “Indian” in the same sentence. Adding more stoves…