Tickets are now on sale for the annual benefit dinner for Communities in Schools of Renton. The dinner is Oct. 2 at Renton Senior Activity Center. Social hour is at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is at 6:30 p.m. Ivar’s is preparing the salmon dinner.
The Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Renton Post 1263, is sponsoring several essay contests for students grades 3 through 12, including home-schooled students.
Shattuck Avenue will reopen sometime in fall 2009, a year behind schedule because of delays in designing “sacrificial beams” that will protect a new railroad bridge from too-tall vehicles.
Garbage rates will increase – the first rate hike in nearly a decade – for Renton businesses and residences under a new solid-waste contract the City of Renton is negotiating with Waste Management.
About 930 customers of Puget Sound Energy were without power for about a half hour late Monday morning in south…
Nine new dining, retail and service tenants are set to open at The Landing in north Renton beginning this fall…
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Renton police were told that a Seattle woman was stabbed in the arm at about 4:35 a.m. Sept. 2 as she walked on North Fourth Street.
Fall is here, and that means that salmon will be making the journey from the Pacific Ocean to area streams and rivers to spawn.
The Renton Chamber of Commerce will host a Legislative Reception 6 p.m-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at Valley Medical Center.
Monday’s warm, dry weather was well-suited for a bench dedication to former Mayor Jesse Tanner.
Bears are no strangers to Renton and rarely, if ever, have they posed an overt threat to a human or property.
But there’s always that possibility – bears are, after all, wild animals.
It wasn’t the ending that state fish and game officer Bruce Richards had wished for a mother bear and her…
Vision House is holding The Vision of Hope Dessert Auction Oct. 4 from 7-9:30 p.m. at Renton Technical College, at 3000 N.E. Fourth St.
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The Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program is holding an open house Saturday (Sept. 13) from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Boeing Employees Flying Club at the Renton Municipal Airport, 840 W. Perimeter Road.
