Roofs have already been replaced, a building permit has just been issued, and in early 2009, crews will begin to renovate the old Cedar Hills Alcohol Treatment Center for its future use as a transitional housing program for single parents.
The Downtown Renton Trick or Treat and Olde Fashion Halloween Party is 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Treats are available…
The King County sheriff, county prosecutor and presiding judges of Superior and District courts will hold the second of four town meetings tonight in the Skyway.
Lindbergh football co-captain Zack Nielsen found himself playing an unusual role in Friday night’s Homecoming game: spectator. The football game…
The Boeing Co. and the union representing its roughly 27,000 Machinists will return to the bargaining table this Thursday in…
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The Rotary Club of Renton has recognized three high school October Students of the Month.
Nearing next month’s critical elections, we asked the two candidates in the U.S. House of Representatives race in the Eighth Congressional District about issues most on constituents’ minds and about the claims they’ve been making about one another in their campaigns.
Vandals dropped two picnic tables from the walkway next to the downtown Renton Library last week – right on top of redds or nests of returning sockeye salmon.
It seemed like a good idea. Put Jimi Hendrix’s childhood home in a mobile-home park in Renton. Just across the street from the late rocker’s grave in Greenwood Memorial Park, a pilgrimage site for hundreds of fans each year. Then turn the home into a museum about the young Seattle man’s life. Add Hendrix-themed shops. Replace the mobile homes with townhouses. A recipe to redevelop a prime commercial spot and increase city revenue and tourism.
A 20-year-old Auburn man was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting last Sunday of a Tacoma man in a Fairwood apartment complex.
The Renton Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a black male in his early 20s who…
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Renton School District has a new logo. The new blue and green symbol depicts three students, one in each of the three levels of district education — elementary, middle and high school. These three students stand within the R of Renton. Graduation is pictured as a launched mortarboard.
• Eric Hougan, the business education teacher at Renton High School, has been recognized as an Emerging Leader by Phi Delta Kappa International, a leading association of education professionals. Hougan was selected from a competitive class of nominees based on his outstanding professional accomplishments grounded on the tenets of leadership, research and service. Hougan worked in business before becoming a teacher. He recently published a book, “The Road to Teaching: A Guide to Teacher Training, Student Teaching, and Finding a Job,” and is on the path to obtaining national board certification. He is also a board member of the Future of the Law Institute, which encourages minority and economically disadvantaged students to pursue higher education in law through various programs.
The Rotary Club of Renton has honored its Teachers of the Month for October.
Construction crews will close several lanes of Interstate 405 in Renton this weekend. During the closures, crews will retrofit the Northeast 44th Street overpass to meet current seismic standards and to better withstand earthquakes.
Valley Medical Center physicians and a VMC neighborhood clinic have received top honors by three area publications this year.
