This year Justin Apolonio got to try something new at Renton High School, where he is a junior. He’s learning to think about learning, or metacognition as it’s formally called in his Theory of Knowledge class, part of the school’s new International Baccalaureate Programme.
Local teens were treated to a Sugar Skulls, Dia de Muertos or Day of the Dead presentation by Amaranta Ibarra, Monday afternoon at the Renton Highlands Library.
The Renton Reporter took a tour of local costume and thrift shops to see what adults and kids will masquerade as for Halloween 2014.
The world of film comes to Renton next weekend as the city will play host to the ninth annual Seattle South Asian Film Festival, with lots of special guests from around the world.
This year the school district is staffing a school resource officer or police officer at Renton High School, sharing the funding with the City of Renton. The district plans to staff two additional high schools with resource officers consecutively for the next two years.
On a recent and (rare) dry, sunny October afternoon, the Renton Reporter caught up with Beth and Randy Brealey, two alpaca farmers, who live in Renton, as they prepared to go to the Fiber Fusion Northwest festival in Monroe.
Directed by Alan Wilkie, it opens tonight, Friday, and runs through Nov. 1, with a special midnight showing on Halloween.
Jennifer Westby wants to donate $60,000 to Valley Medical Center from her future book sales to return the kindness she felt during her mother’s illness.
Laurie Hendricks credits her training for knowing what to do in an emergency.
The backpack program has hooked up 245 students so far this year with meals and snacks packed into a backpack for the weekend every Friday. The backpacks are returned by the students on Monday and the process starts over again.
Nelsen Middle School Vice Principal Dr. Elaine Love doesn’t want technology to become the surrogate parent of today’s child.
The 13th annual Fall Harvest Festival is Saturday, with 200 pumpkins, more than 50 booths, encompassing 35 craft vendors, five food vendors, retail, nonprofits and services.
Thirteen teams scouted locations and set up their shots all over Renton this past weekend to take part in the seventh annual Renton FilmFrenzy.
The 13-year-old Renton resident will take to the stage with a host of other local girls at the event at 4 p.m., Oct. 11, at the Burien Performing Arts Center.
Errin Williams tried out for the squad last April for the first time and made the cut, competing against 200 other contestants and veterans.
As part of the event, filmmakers have 50 hours to write, shoot, edit and submit a short film. Participants are provided with a “CurveBall” or challenge at the beginning of the event, which could include incorporating a line of dialogue, a task or a specific location in Renton.
Some of the top priorities addressed by the audience for the school to focus on were the college’s image, morale, pay, parking and the president’s ability to collaborate with industry leaders and big business.
The project is the Hotel at Southport and it breaks ground on Oct.
Executive Chef Wayne Johnson is now gracing the city with his southern-inspired menu at Shuga Jazz Bistro in downtown.
This iteration of the master plan features a main access spine through the park along Harrington Avenue, a boulder feature water channel, centrally located bathrooms, playgrounds for ages 2 to 5 and 5 to 12, an orchard tree concept, rain gardens, a grass hill and plenty of open space.