Work is under way on rebuilding the longtime McDonald’s restaurant on Rainier Avenue that was destroyed in a spectacular fire in December.
Rainier Avenue that was destroyed in a spectacular fire in December.
The nearly 4,000-square-foot restaurant is expected to open in late September, according to George Kobory, the project superintendent for Spectrum Enterprises of Lakewood, which is building the restaurant.
Denis Law is certainly not a reluctant mayor.
But he gave deep thought to whether he would leave behind his decades-long career as a successful newspaper publisher to run for mayor of this city of about 80,000 people.
He found that tensions among various stakeholders in the city and on the City Council were preventing the important business of the city from getting done. A change in leadership was needed at the top, he reasoned.
The citizens of Renton agreed and the results are apparent, six months into Law’s first term as mayor.
Grover Shegrud of Lynnwood couldn’t stay away Thursday from a home he designed and built for his family in 1966.
About 1,000 graduating seniors from Renton and surrounding high schools got a late-night helicopter ride over Renton, part of their graduation-night celebration.
The idea was to keep them busy – and safe – on what can become a dangerous night of unsupervised partying.
“We look at potentially keeping 1,000 DUIs from happening,” said Michael O’Leary, owner of AirO Inc., which offered the four-minute flights through the grad-night packages typically organized by parents of the seniors.
But the noise from those dozens of helicopter flights over six nights has generated enough complaints from those trying to sleep that O’Leary will meet with Mayor Denis Law about the future of the flights.
A 41-year-old convicted sex offender living in Renton would face life in prison if he’s convicted of any of three rape charges that have been filed against him, according to the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
Kenneth Demone Sims, who lives in an apartment complex in the 200 block of Lind Avenue Southwest not far from where the rapes occurred, would face life in prison under the state’s “Two Strike” law for sex offenders.
The leads investigators are following to identify Highlands Man and, now, Highlands Woman, may take them to Johnson’s Grocery, which closed in north Renton more than three decades ago.
For 85 years, First Savings Bank of Renton has stayed close to its roots – the people of Renton who need a loan to buy a home.
That is the traditional role of the “thrifts,” the savings and loans where people pool their money in their savings accounts and then it’s loaned out to others.
Grover Shegrud of Lynnwood couldn’t stay away Thursday from a home he designed and built for his family in 1966.
In December, the family held what likely was their last Christmas in the house. It was.
On Thursday, the Renton Fire Department burned it to the ground.
Hundreds of Renton teens are waking up this morning after one of the most exciting days and nights of their lives – high school graduation.
OK, maybe some of them will wake up this afternoon. But the sentiment is the same, following Friday’s day of commencements.
For them, it’s the end of 12 years (and maybe 13, if they went to kindergarten) of education that will lead to a college career or directly to work.
There are no city elections on this year’s primary and general election ballots, but state and national races should provide plenty of fireworks.
The candidates for state Legislature, governor and other state officials and Congress formally made known their intention to run during the recent filing period for the Aug. 19 primary.
Of course, it’s a presidential year, too.
This is also the year that the top-two vote-getters in the primary move on to the general election in November. That could mean two Democrats or two Republicans move on in a partisan race.
It’s really sad to think that Alvina Popke or anyone who reads her story will harden their hearts to those in need. If that happens, then that is what the con artist has really stolen from us – a giving heart.
But the message is clear.
If someone walks up to you on the street, out of the blue, with a scheme to help you or a charity, keep on walking. Instead, walk down to the Salvation Army and write them a check. Or mail off a check to your favorite charity.
Repaving was expected to begin this week of about 1 1/2 miles of the Benson Highway in Renton that will result in some lane closures, mainly at night.
Duvall Avenue Northeast, a key commuter route between Renton and Bellevue, finally closed Thursday for a widening project expected to take about a year.
The closure was delayed for several days from June 2 while the contractor obtained one of the permits for the project, a stormwater discharge permit from the state Department of Transportation.
A key piece of evidence in solving the mystery of who is buried in a grave in the Highlands is about the size of a man’s wedding band.
It’s a collar button, of a style dating from the early 1900s. A crew of five investigators painstakingly sifting through a narrow trench next to a new home’s foundation found the button, along with pieces of wool and leather, last Friday.
Crews will begin placing 20-foot sections of culvert under Interstate 405 the third week of June to replace a culvert that collapsed in a massive winter storm in December, threatening the stability of the freeway.
A key commuter corridor between Renton and Factoria – Duvall Avenue Northeast – will not close as scheduled on Monday for the start of a major widening project because the contractor has yet to receive a key permit, according to city officials.
It’s early afternoon on May 17 and Alvina Popke is pushing a cart full of groceries out to her car at the Fred Meyer parking lot on the Benson Highway.
They’ve learned to wrangle yeast and make a fine meal of wild king salmon and crab-stuffed prawns.
Ten more children and their single mom or dad now have a place to call home in the Renton Highlands if they must flee an abusive relationship.
Renton’s veterans will remember those who died in the service of their country this Monday, Memorial Day.
