Derek Strom knew his class was making a totem pole. But he didn’t know what the finished totem would look like. Neither did Kristen Brenneman, Strom’s second-grade teacher at Sierra Heights. Both were pleased with the results.
Teams from seven local retirement homes gathered in their uniforms in the cafeteria of Renton Senior Activity Center Monday for a rousing baseball tournament.
But although they were playing indoors, there wasn’t any danger of broken windows.
It was beanbag baseball, so instead of bats and balls, the seniors tossed beanbags at a plywood target painted with a picture of a catcher.
Senior Services’ Transportation Program, which provides an essential service to senior citizens by arranging transportation to medical appointments, needs more volunteer drivers.
Harborview Medical Center has opened its new inpatient building, named in honor of the late Norm Maleng, the King County prosecutor for almost 30 years.
The Renton Police Department has arrested a suspect – a registered Level 3 sex offender – believed to be responsible for three rapes in the Renton area in the past seven months, according to spokeswoman Penny Bartley.
The King County Council has approved the nine members of a committee that will review procedures and costs of building and land-use permit fees charged by the County.
The Technical Advisory Committee was created in November 2007 to make the county’s land-use permitting rules more transparent and fair.
The county’s land-use agency, the Department of Development and Environmental Services, is based in Renton.
The City of Renton recently appointed Iwen Wang as the new Finance and Information Services department administrator.
Knotweed is a highly invasive plant that takes over riverside habitats. That’s why King County is working with landowners and agencies to weed it out.
With help from state and federal funding, the cooperation and support of many landowners and public land managers the King County Noxious Weed Program is leading an effort to control this fast-spreading weed.
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Barbara “Barb” O’Keefe, 85, of Renton, died May 24, 2008, in Renton. She was born April 16, 1923, in Burlington, Iowa.
We live on 137th Place Southeast just off Southeast 156th on the Renton plateau. Saturday, June 7, my sister and I were talking and I looked out the window and saw two dogs that resemble pit bulls in our back yard, one black and the other a brownish color with a white muzzle.
The Puget Sound See Gulls Trailer Club once did lots of seeing. Once or twice a month the families boarded their motor homes and travel trailers and set off for the ocean, Skagit County, Death Valley, Mount Vernon and even Tahiti. Once there they had cook-outs, played games and held dress-up contests.
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More than 100 Italian families celebrated their ancestry at Renton’s Philip Arnold Park Saturday. The gathering included food and music — both Italian, of course.
Sangeeta Naidu-Prasad’s father was her best friend. She and Permal Naidu went shopping and fishing and attended air shows together.