The City of Renton is offering a second round of grants for the 2008 Neighborhood Grant Program, designed to stimulate resident-drivern community projects that build stronger neighborhoods and build partnerships between thecity and its neighborhoods.
The City of Renton is seeking candidates for one position on the Advisory Commission on Diversity.
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The city’s proposed changes to its garbage collection and recycling programs will apply to most – but not all – of the Benson Hill area annexed in March.
Twenty-one families requested to transfer schools in Renton School District this year because of poor Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).
Renton Salvation Army is looking for volunteers for the Mayor’s Day of Concern Sept. 27.
A “fender-bender” involving a motorcyclist and a car has been cleared from the southbound lanes of I-405 near Sunset Boulevard…
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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.
