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Candidates for Highlands Elementary School student body president and vice president were

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Highlands all-girl slate of candidates

Highlands Elementary students chose from an all-girl ticket during their school’s student body election Friday. This was the…

Claudia Sipe-Baccus of Puyallup

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Renton’s Greenfresh Market picks up vendors as Farmer’s Market closes for season

Renton Farmers Market ended its season Sept. 16. But several vendors continued hawking their wares at an After…

Sports

ROUNDUP, VOLLEYBALL: Eagles go distance with Foster before winning

Lindbergh beat Foster in five games, 3-2 on Sept. 25.

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Liberty piled up 360 yards rushing on the way to a 55-

Liberty piled up 360 yards rushing on the way to a 55-21 rout of Sammamish on Sept. 26.

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New top jailer appointed for King County

Chief Deputy Prosecutor Kathleen Van Olst is the new director of King County’s Department of Adult and Juvenile…

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POLICE BLOTTER: Convenience-store employee robbed at gunpoint

An employee of a 7-11 store on Southeast 168th Street was robbed at gunpoint by a white male…

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Free job fair is planned for Oct. 16 in Issaquah

The Issaquah Chamber of Commerce is doing something about the employment shortage. It will host a free Eastside…

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Four from Renton among those facing trafficking charge

More than a dozen people, including four who live in Renton, face federal cocaine trafficking charges following a…

Mandee Schouten

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Auction helps Renton’s Vision House fulfill mission

Susan Camerer has wanted something bigger for Vision House since the beginning. That beginning was in 1990, when…

Obituaries

Bernice Lorraine Morrison

Bernice Lorraine Morrison Bernice Lorraine Morrison passed away on September 29, 2008 at Evergreen Hospice in Kirkland.Bea was…

Sports

FRIDAY: Renton High hands Hazen first loss of season, 54-0

The Renton High Indians handed Hazen its first loss of the young football season in a 54-0 blowout…

Today’s modern motorcycle officer

Life

RENTON THEN AND NOW: Ernie the ‘talking’ motorcycle gave safety tips; what hasn’t changed are the drivers’ excuses

Much has changed since Mike Weisz joined Renton Police Department in 1989. Speeding excuses aren’t among those changes.

Rev. Kirby Unti

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RENTON THEN AND NOW, Kirby Unti: God discovered in lives of Renton’s people

With 100 congregation members, St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church was on life support in 1980. That’s when Kirby Unti,…

Phillip Levine stands next to his sculpture

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RENTON THEN AND NOW, Phillip Levine: Pedestrians the inspiration for ‘Interface’

It was a day in the 1960s and Phillip Levine was sitting in his car in downtown Seattle…

Valley Medical Center CEO Rich Roodman stands in front of VMC’s new main entrance

Life

RENTON THEN AND NOW, Rich Roodman: Valley Medical has put up some big numbers

Valley Medical Center was less than 400,000 square feet when Rich Roodman became CEO on Jan. 1, 1983.…

Louis Fote Jr. at Jones Park

Life

RENTON THEN AND NOW: Louis Fote Jr.: Thanks for Jones Park equipment

In 1985, Louis Fote Jr. was a sixth grader at Lakeridge Elementary School and had nowhere to play.…

June St. Clair

Life

Fairwood Library workshop helps women share their life stories

You don’t have to be a Nobel Prize winner or a reformed mass murderer to write an autobiography.…

Life

Out & About in Renton | Sept. 27

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RENTON CALENDAR

Calendars are published Wednesdays and Saturdays on a space-available basis. Items for the Wednesday edition must be submitted…

John R. Jones

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Housing advocates protest bailout