The group hopes the honor wall will provide role models to students currently attending Renton High and represent the school’s values of pride, tradition and excellence.
Many family-friendly activities are starting up around Renton in celebration of the holidays.
With a heart for community service, Love started feeding the homeless 20 years ago when she was a school counselor in the Tacoma School District.
Renton resident Leilani Akiyama, 26, grew up in her stepfather’s studio, Judo Champions.
Campbell Hill Elementary School Principal Zakariya Palsha won the 2013 Golden Apple Excellence in Education Award, which celebrates educators, programs and schools making a positive difference in Washington state education.
The Common Core State Standards are academic benchmarks for reading and math that lay out what students should know and do at each grade level, as well as after high school. Currently, 45 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards, while five other states created their own version.
Aunt Dottie is celebrating her Fifth Anniversary Show at 3 p.m. at Renton Civic Theatre and giving a portion of the proceeds to Champions Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps underprivileged kids.
NWSFHIC is the only preschool through eighth grade school for deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Washington.
Renton Rotary Club has selected its Teachers of the Month for November as part of their commitment to education and to celebrate teachers in the Renton School District.
Two Renton organizations aimed at helping the community and residents are joining together to host an event Saturday.
In Afghanistan, Williams was in charge of community outreach, ensuring all donations sent from the United States reached their proper destinations.
Former Navy gunsman Robert Brown, 91, was on the battleship Maryland retrieving gunpowder below deck on Dec. 7, 1941, when bombs exploded around him.
Renton Technical College (RTC) celebrated Veterans Day early by holding a ceremony Nov. 7 on campus to honor student and staff veterans.
The residents were each given a bill of $400 from Spencer Court management to help pay for pest control treatments and were told they would be sent to collections if they didn’t pay a minimum fee by the end of October. Residents of the low income facility say this is extra money they simply can’t pay.
After just two years, fifth grade math scores increased by 35 percent and reading scores went up 25 percent. Third grade math improved by 33 percent and fourth grade math by 22 percent.
A business hoping to redefine the urgent-care experience for patients and physicians opened in Kent Jan. 28.
Doctors Express caters to patients who can’t be seen by their own physicians or don’t want to go to the emergency room. The goal of the business is to offer affordable, non-emergency treatment to anyone in need, thereby eliminating long waits associated with doctor’s office or emergency room visits.
Aviation High School junior Jacob Wagner already had a dream come true.
He got to fly an airplane solo for the first time.
“It was the best experience I’ve ever had,” Wagner said, beaming. “I was just giggling the whole time. It felt so good to be up in the air; I felt so free.”
