It’s taken a while, but Crystal Ainardi has finally tracked them down. Or many of them. Late last year the 28-year-old former Renton resident started searching for the 20-some Italian families in a photo taken at a 1935 picnic at McDonald’s Grove — now thought to be Cedar Grove — on Maple Valley Highway.
The City of Renton is hosting a Benson Hill Community Celebration on Saturday, June 21.
The Renton Fire and Emergency Services Department will conduct a special training exercise for firefighters next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, that will include a live fire.
The discharge of fireworks is banned in the City of Renton throughout the year, including the Fourth of July, city officials are reminding residents.
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Landlords and property owners would play a greater role in combating crime on properties in unincorporated King County, under legislation introduced Thursday by King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn.
As expected, Baiba and Joe Rubino came out near the top during the second and third Renton Neighborhood Challenge weigh-ins, on June 5 and Thursday, June 12. The family of four reduced its trash from the first May 29 weigh-in by more than half, going from a bloated 62.6 pounds to 24.6.
Becky Nickels will become the new president of Soroptimist International of Renton during the year-end installation and awards banquet 6 p.m. Tuesday at Merrill Gardens in Renton.
There are no city elections on this year’s primary and general election ballots, but state and national races should provide plenty of fireworks.
The candidates for state Legislature, governor and other state officials and Congress formally made known their intention to run during the recent filing period for the Aug. 19 primary.
Of course, it’s a presidential year, too.
This is also the year that the top-two vote-getters in the primary move on to the general election in November. That could mean two Democrats or two Republicans move on in a partisan race.
By EMILY GARLAND Renton Reporter The black bear treed in a Kennydale backyard in late April was released into the…
The black bear treed in Kennydale in late April will be released Wednesday on the eastern slope of the North…
All lanes of northbound I-405, just south of Northeast Park Drive in Renton, are now open. An earlier collision has…
The senior class of Lindbergh High School will graduate Friday, June 13, 12:30 p.m., at the Meydenbauer Center, 11100 N.E….
By DEAN A. RADFORD Editor, Renton Reporter The Renton School District on Monday stopped using tomatoes in its school sandwiches,…
The senior class of Hazen High School will graduate Friday, June 13, 4 p.m., at the Meydenbauer Center, 11100 N.E….
Marcus Ramirez is this year’s recipient of the Renton Lions Club’s annual scholarship.
