Wednesday evening kicked-off the first installment of “Pop-Up Piazza” in downtown Renton, a happy hour-type venue designed to get residents and visitors into the city
It’s been a little more than two years since Puget Sound Access moved into Carco Theatre and the facility has been a buzz of activity.
Just days after school let out for summer, about 100 Renton students participated in the Career and Technical Education’s Summer STEM Robotics Camp.
As of this spring, the Renton School District has begun buying property in North Renton around the former Sartori Education Center for the creation of a new elementary school.
The partnership’s board of directors held a community-wide gathering Monday night to solicit input from area business owners and residents on how downtown Renton could grow.
Students and faculty at Renton Technical College on Wednesday held a vigil and moment of silence for the victims of the June 17 church shooting in Charleston, S.C.
One of Renton’s hidden gems and favorite family pastimes is back up and running after recent renovations and extended closure.
Louise George of Renton recently returned from a trip she almost didn’t make. The 97-year-old wasn’t sure, at first, if she wanted to take the Puget Sound Honor Flight’s tour of Washington, D.C., because she has bad knees and other ailments and didn’t want to be a burden.
The school was the only entity in Washington state to win a 2015 Think Green Grant from Waste Management.
The Renton School District has seen an increase in marijuana among students this year since the drug became legal in this state for those 21 and up, according to school staff.
The program currently serves 45 students total in the district and Green is one of nine students in the district graduating as a result of the Jobs for Washington’s Graduates (JWG) program.
The decision was made following an appeal before the City’s Planning and Development Committee brought by residents in the Tiffany Park Woods Advocacy Group.
With some recent film festival wins under his belt, Renton High School senior Long Tran is ready to take on the world of movie-making and pursue it as a career.
The Tiffany Park Woods Advocacy Group (TPWAG) is appealing the final decision by City of Renton Hearing Examiner Phil Olbrechts to allow developer Henley, USA, LLC to continue with their project on the property as planned.
The market runs from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesdays, June 2 to Sept. 29. It’s located the Piazza Park, 233 Burnett Ave. S.
Joined by Renton School District Board members and administrators, the teachers voiced their frustrations in a one-day, after school protest and rally.
Somers graduated from Lindbergh in 1999 and went on to become a sought-after photojournalist for capturing images of the Arab Spring as it spread to Sana’a in Yemen. In 2013, he was kidnapped and held for more than a year. Somers was killed by al-Qaida militants in Yemen in December 2014.
A sign-waving protest is planned for 3 p.m., May 28 at the intersections of Rainier Avenue and Grady Way as well as Rainier Avenue and Airport Way. A rally is to follow at 5:15 p.m. at the Renton Piazza.
The committee will present its recommendations, which includes two new schools to the school board directors at a public meeting planned for 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 27.
The Washington State Board of Education voted to release the Renton School District from its list of districts with failing schools in the state on May 14.
