Nominations are being sought through Feb. 6 for the ninth annual “Ahead of the Class” awards. Sponsored by the Renton…
Attention readers with four-legged friends. There’s a hot new place for pets in downtown Renton! Poodie’s Pet Palace opened quietly…
Quackery. That’s how Terri Dilts’ former oncologist described the breast cancer treatment she wanted to receive. So she left Swedish…
The Renton Chamber of Commerce is planning a series of workshops during the next several months designed to help Renton’s…
By Reporter Newspapers Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. eliminated 1,400 jobs Thursday morning, including 872 at its Redmond campus — and there…
The “TEMPORARILY CLOSED. SEE YOU SOON” sandwich board outside Greenfresh Market has been replaced by several signs bearing less cheery…
ORB Architects of Renton has hired two intern architects.
Nhi Nguyen received her Bachelor of Science in architecture from Temple University in Philadelphia. The focus of her intern development program is on Metro Parks’ Four Community Center Upgrades project.
The lights are off. The electronic reader board is dead. The parking lot is empty. Greenfresh Market is closed.
But only temporarily, says Fred Coutts, CEO of the Rainier Avenue North grocery store that specializes in natural and organic food.
As the sandwich board outside the grocery store reads: “TEMPORARILY CLOSED. SEE YOU SOON.”
I attended the eighth annual Piazza auction and fundraiser two weeks ago. A gala event, with a fun theme – a “tropical shipwreck” party. Island music was performed by Biff Moss, a regular entertainer at Bahama Breeze, and Moss, whose parents are Piazza volunteers, also served as auctioneer. There was a pretty full house at the Spirit of Washington Events Center – not bad in a so-so economic climate and businesses donated oodles of great auction items.
Duc Tran has lived in the United States only 30 years, but he’s already built an Asian empire. Chairman and CEO of the Viet-Wah Group, Tran, 55, runs three Asian food markets, each called Viet-Wah. Two are in Seattle and one in the Renton Highlands. He operates a wholesale business that ships Asian food across the country. And he has started a couple restaurants, including the newly opened Tea Palace, behind Renton’s Viet-Wah in the Greater Hilands Shopping Center on Northeast Sunset Boulevard.
AAA Washington is kicking off its new “Soap for Hope” donation drive to collect toiletry items and distribute them to persons in need via local shelters, food banks and other charitable organizations.
The fourth annual Master Builder Care Foundation’s “Painting A Better Tomorrow” event helped put a fresh face on nine shelters that help the homeless and others in need in King and Pierce counties, including Vision House in the Renton Highlands.
Valley Radiologists, a leading area medical practice specializing in diagnostic and interventional radiology services, will open the Vanishing Veins Northwest Center in Renton on Monday to provide alternatives to major surgery for patients with varicose veins, spider veins and related conditions.
It honestly seems like just a few weeks ago that I put away my Christmas decorations; but here we go again, ready for another holiday season! I am like a kid in a candy store when it comes to the holidays; I love everything about them – the food, the parties and the presents! Especially buying presents! Although people are pinching their pennies these days, if you are in the market for some jewels for your best girl or guy, there is a place in Renton that you should shop – and that is Garland Jewelers.
Three Renton businesses finished first and seven others finished in the top five in their categories in Evening Magazine’s The Best of Western Washington.
Two Renton companies, JayMarc Development and The Mosaic Co., have been named two of the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Washington” by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Big Mac has risen from the ashes of a storm-related fire last December that destroyed the McDonald’s restaurant on Rainier Avenue.
Although the restaurant opened for business on Oct. 21, dignitaries, including state Sen. Margarita Prentice, and well-wishers gathered Wednesday for a grand opening. The roughly 50 in attendance received tours of what’s touted as one of McDonald’s new state-of-the-art restaurants. Of course, there were samples.
I recently had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Terry Higashiyama, community services administrator for the City of Renton, and she told me about a program that the city runs that was new to me. I thought if I hadn’t heard about it, some of you might not have. It’s the Housing Repair Assistance Program (HRAP), which has been in existence since 1978.
An interactive golf retailer – Golf Galaxy – gets into the swing of things with its grand opening Nov. 14 at The Landing.
The store is the first Golf Galaxy in Washington state.
Regal Cinemas The Landing Stadium 14 opens Friday. To celebrate, the new movie theater is holding four days of ticket, popcorn and soft drink deals.
