Susan Richards was recently named executive director for Communities In Schools of Washington State. Richards will leave her post at Communities In Schools of Renton, where she has served as executive director for 14 years.
• Lindbergh High School senior Stephen Root has been awarded the Washington Association of Diversified Occupations Teachers scholarship and the Renton Educational Support Professionals scholarship. Root will study engineering at Washington State University.
McKnight Middle School eighth-grader Samuel Shank has been named one of Washington state’s brightest scholars by the Washington Search for Young Scholars program, sponsored by the University of Washington (UW).
Renton student Kaia Bjarke was recently honored at a statewide awards ceremony for gifted children held by The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.
The final construction project funded by a Renton School District 2003 bond will kick off on the last day of school, this Friday.
This year’s senior class is the first required to pass the reading and writing portions of the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) in order to graduate.
About 300 emergency preparedness kits were assembled last Thursday by about 140 volunteers at an event sponsored by the Highlands Community Association.
The kits will go to senior citizens and the disabled in Renton so they have a better chance of surviving an disaster or other emergency.
The original goal was to assemble about 200 kits.
The Renton Fire and Emergency Services Department is conducting a special training exercise for firefighters next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday…
Michael Agelo Colacarro Sr., 89, died June 9, 2008, in Renton. He was born July 25, 1918, in Seattle.
Starting Monday, crews will begin installing the new culvert that will carry Thunder Hills Creek underneath Interstate 405 near Benson…
Due to the possible presence of salmonella bacteria in some tomatoes, Waste Management and Cedar Grove Composting of Maple Valley are requesting that all residential and business customers put suspect tomatoes and suspect raw tomato products such as salsa in the garbage, not in curbside yard/food carts or in home composting bins or worm bins.
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.
