The Renton City Council will discuss plans Monday night for moving forward with an agreement with the King County Library System to build two new libraries and the issuing of 10-year bonds to pay for them. The council, sitting as the Committee of the Whole, will meet at 4:30 p.m. to discuss the issues. The regular council meeting is at 7 p.m., when council members would take any vote.
Harambee in Renton will host two benefit concerts for youth empowerment group Cry Out! this weekend and next.
The following information was compiled based on City of Renton Police reports.
Gun shots rang out in the 600 block of Southwest Fifth Court hitting nearby cars and an apartment building on May 26.
Police were called to the area for a reported five to seven gun shots heard after 11:30 p.m
Residents of Heritage Grove Apartments in the Highlands were victimized again four days after a two-alarm fire in their building, when early Tuesday, several apartments were burglarized.
The Renton Police Department is investigating the burglary at 1100 N.E. Sunset Blvd. Meanwhile, the cause of last Friday’s fire has yet to be determined. As of mid-week, fire inspectors were still gathering data and conducting interviews.
After 35 years in the Renton School District, Judy Busch is retiring as principal from Maplewood Heights Elementary School.
When Faten Rashid came to the United States from war-torn Iraq in May 2009, everything was strange to her. She worried for her husband and their three children.
“We are Iraqi, we are Muslim, so I was afraid because we would not be accepted,” she said.
As a kid Roxanne Johnson came over to a plot of land in the Highlands to pick pears. It was a pear orchard then and she fondly remembered the experience picking the fruit in exchange for tidying up the orchard.
About 35 years later, the land which was most recently a vacant lot, is returning to its roots and becoming a community garden.
Lindbergh High School senior Kevin Taul overcame much adversity to make it to graduation. He called himself a bad kid in middle school, suspended multiple times, forced to go to an alternative school and eventually arrested before the start of the eighth grade.
Taul was with the wrong kids at the wrong time, he said. They had robbed a man and beat him up. He was in Federal Way at the time, an unfamiliar city and didn’t know where to go, so he was arrested with his friends and sent to jail.
Liberty High School received several nominations in the Ninth Annual 5th Avenue Awards: Honoring High School Musical Theater.
The awards ceremony took place Monday night, June 6, in Benaroya Hall. There were 2,400 high school students, teachers and parents from across Washington state at the event.
UPDATE: Damage to the Heritage Grove Apartments has been estimated at about $750,000, according to Renton Fire and Emergency…
The sun made cameo appearances on Tuesday for the start of the Renton Farmers Market, while the rain dominated much…
The following information was compiled based on City of Renton police reports.
A confrontation in a Renton liquor store turned violent on May 20.
A man threatened another man with a gun in the liquor store at 465 Renton Center Way after 8:30 p.m.
No one was injured when a bus full of third graders from Maple Heights Elementary School and a semi-truck collided at 1:05 p.m. Tuesday in Renton.
Renton kicks off summer with the beginning of two farmers markets next week. Downtown Renton and Valley Medical Center will…
With dancing and crafts scheduled, Renton Technical College is holding its “Hands On!” Festival June 9.
The festival showcases the college’s technical training programs, with craft tables, information booths, a crane-folding project and participatory dancing. This includes square dancing with caller RTC instructor Stephen Cole and line dancing with the Rockin’ Horse Dance Barn. The evening will finish with line-dancing.
The following information was compiled based on City of Renton police reports. Two Renton teens were robbed of a custom-built…
Renton just became a bit more international with the addition of The Berliner Pub to downtown. The German gastropub had…
Plans are in the works to improve sidewalks, trails and street crossings in the Benson Hill/Cascade area.
The City of Renton is planning two opportunities for the public to be involved in walking audits of that area to improve the safety and walkability of the community.
The Renton School District will have $2.7 million cut from its 2011-2012 school budget and lose an additional $1.5 million…
“Renton Rocks is kind of an art community project that I started with my family,” said Eachean Edmundson. “It was inspired by somebody doing something similar online and my kids and I happened to be at the beach one day and they were collecting rocks and they ended up with a lot, like 100.”
