The Renton City Council Monday night voted to build two new Renton libraries, one near the Renton Transit Center and the other in the Highlands.
The closure of State Route 520 over Lake Washington for construction work this weekend will increase traffic on detours, including Interstate 90 over the lake and on Interstate 405 around the lake in Renton, according to the state transportation department.
SR 520 is closed from Montlake Boulevard in Seattle to I-405 on the Eastside
Valley Medical Center’s commissioners will consider a change to their ethics code Monday that if not made could make them complicit with violations by other members. The change was suggested on Monday by hospital CEO Rich Roodman in advance of an inspection by state auditors in July. However, he also suggested the commissioners wait until this Monday’s regular meeting when it was presumed commissioners Dr. Aaron Heide and Anthony Hemstad would attend.
The Renton City Council will discuss plans Monday night for moving forward with an agreement with the King County Library System to build two new libraries and the issuing of 10-year bonds to pay for them. The council, sitting as the Committee of the Whole, will meet at 4:30 p.m. to discuss the issues. The regular council meeting is at 7 p.m., when council members would take any vote.
Both southbound lanes of Main Avenue South from South Fourth Street to City Hall will be closed to traffic during the day for construction of 1,500 feet of a water main in Main Avenue South and Benson Road South.
A county crew has removed a logjam spanning the Cedar River today that forced the river’s closure earlier this spring. The logjam upriver from Ron Regis Park in Renton is a threat to recreational users, the reason behind the closure by Sheriff Sue Rahr.
“Good job,” I say, helping to chop the last bits of cilantro.
I stand beside my daughter Sophie in our Mad Men-era kitchen. The double oven is yellow, the countertops are a rusty orange Formica.
The following information was compiled based on City of Renton Police reports.
Gun shots rang out in the 600 block of Southwest Fifth Court hitting nearby cars and an apartment building on May 26.
Police were called to the area for a reported five to seven gun shots heard after 11:30 p.m
Residents of Heritage Grove Apartments in the Highlands were victimized again four days after a two-alarm fire in their building, when early Tuesday, several apartments were burglarized.
The Renton Police Department is investigating the burglary at 1100 N.E. Sunset Blvd. Meanwhile, the cause of last Friday’s fire has yet to be determined. As of mid-week, fire inspectors were still gathering data and conducting interviews.
After 35 years in the Renton School District, Judy Busch is retiring as principal from Maplewood Heights Elementary School.
When Faten Rashid came to the United States from war-torn Iraq in May 2009, everything was strange to her. She worried for her husband and their three children.
“We are Iraqi, we are Muslim, so I was afraid because we would not be accepted,” she said.
As a kid Roxanne Johnson came over to a plot of land in the Highlands to pick pears. It was a pear orchard then and she fondly remembered the experience picking the fruit in exchange for tidying up the orchard.
About 35 years later, the land which was most recently a vacant lot, is returning to its roots and becoming a community garden.
Renton residents can enjoy a public fireworks display at Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park, but will not be allowed to personally discharge fireworks.
Since 2005, there has been a total ban on the use, sale and possession of any fireworks within the city limits of Renton, including on the 4th of July.
Reagan Dunn, King County Council member and former federal prosecutor, has announced he will run for Washington state attorney general in 2012.
Dunn of Maple Valley, a former official at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. and Assistant U.S. Attorney in Seattle, is seeking to succeed Rob McKenna, a two-term Republican Attorney General who recently announced his campaign for governor in a news release.
Lindbergh High School senior Kevin Taul overcame much adversity to make it to graduation. He called himself a bad kid in middle school, suspended multiple times, forced to go to an alternative school and eventually arrested before the start of the eighth grade.
Taul was with the wrong kids at the wrong time, he said. They had robbed a man and beat him up. He was in Federal Way at the time, an unfamiliar city and didn’t know where to go, so he was arrested with his friends and sent to jail.
Local Renton firefighters collected $13,000 in their boots last Friday and Saturday for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
This summer the City of Renton and the Renton School District are working together to provide free lunches to children ages 1-18 at 12 locations throughout the city.
Liberty High School received several nominations in the Ninth Annual 5th Avenue Awards: Honoring High School Musical Theater.
The awards ceremony took place Monday night, June 6, in Benaroya Hall. There were 2,400 high school students, teachers and parents from across Washington state at the event.
Boeing is forecasting a $4 trillion market for new aircraft during the next 20 years with a significant increase in forecasted deliveries, according to the Boeing 2011 Current Market Outlook (CMO) released Thursday in Paris.
Armondo Pavone woke up last Saturday morning with all sorts of ideas about what to do next as a restaurateur or maybe something else in Renton, just hours after he announced he’s closing Armondo’s.
For sure, losing Armondo’s Cafe Italiano after 25 years is a shock to its long-time customers and can’t help but send shock waves through the downtown Renton economy.