Derek Strom knew his class was making a totem pole. But he didn’t know what the finished totem would look like. Neither did Kristen Brenneman, Strom’s second-grade teacher at Sierra Heights. Both were pleased with the results.
Teams from seven local retirement homes gathered in their uniforms in the cafeteria of Renton Senior Activity Center Monday for a rousing baseball tournament.
But although they were playing indoors, there wasn’t any danger of broken windows.
It was beanbag baseball, so instead of bats and balls, the seniors tossed beanbags at a plywood target painted with a picture of a catcher.
Senior Services’ Transportation Program, which provides an essential service to senior citizens by arranging transportation to medical appointments, needs more volunteer drivers.
Harborview Medical Center has opened its new inpatient building, named in honor of the late Norm Maleng, the King County prosecutor for almost 30 years.
The Renton Police Department has arrested a suspect – a registered Level 3 sex offender – believed to be responsible for three rapes in the Renton area in the past seven months, according to spokeswoman Penny Bartley.
The King County Council has approved the nine members of a committee that will review procedures and costs of building and land-use permit fees charged by the County.
The Technical Advisory Committee was created in November 2007 to make the county’s land-use permitting rules more transparent and fair.
The county’s land-use agency, the Department of Development and Environmental Services, is based in Renton.
The City of Renton recently appointed Iwen Wang as the new Finance and Information Services department administrator.
Knotweed is a highly invasive plant that takes over riverside habitats. That’s why King County is working with landowners and agencies to weed it out.
With help from state and federal funding, the cooperation and support of many landowners and public land managers the King County Noxious Weed Program is leading an effort to control this fast-spreading weed.
Grover Shegrud of Lynnwood couldn’t stay away Thursday from a home he designed and built for his family in 1966.
In December, the family held what likely was their last Christmas in the house. It was.
On Thursday, the Renton Fire Department burned it to the ground.
Barbara “Barb” O’Keefe, 85, of Renton, died May 24, 2008, in Renton. She was born April 16, 1923, in Burlington, Iowa.
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More than 100 Italian families celebrated their ancestry at Renton’s Philip Arnold Park Saturday. The gathering included food and music — both Italian, of course.
Sangeeta Naidu-Prasad’s father was her best friend. She and Permal Naidu went shopping and fishing and attended air shows together.
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.
