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Jul
30
Kirkland, Washington - The Kenworth Truck Company manufacturing plant in Renton, Wash., recently received a 2009 Best Workplace for Recycling and Waste Reduction Award from King County’s Solid Waste Division for Kenworth’s outstanding efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Read more here.
Jul
23
TACOMA — I was in a bar in Puerto Vallarta two months ago, and so was John Clayton, over there in the corner on a flat screen that hung from the ceiling.
ESPN’s NFL expert is everywhere. He might be in your family room in the fall on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown or on your car radio every Saturday. Clayton hosts a three-hour show on ESPN 710 Seattle before co-hosting a national show in the afternoon.
Read more at the Seattle PI.
Jul
23
Renton police are searching for a 57-year-old man who went missing Tuesday after his wife dropped him off to catch a bus.
James R. Bertalotto, who suffers from dementia, lives at the Benson Heights retirement facility in Kent. He was last seen by his wife at 7 p.m. outside the Sherri’s restaurant at 1820 Maple Valley Highway in Renton after she dropped him off so he could catch a bus back to Benson Heights.
Read more at the Seattle Times.
Jul
18
Construction begins Monday on an $84 million interchange project to improve access from Interstate 405 to downtown Renton.
Read more here from the Seattle Times.
Jul
18
Saturday is the deadline for registering by mail or online to vote in King County’s first vote-by-mail primary election next month. But new Washington voters can register in-person until Aug. 10 at the county’s Elections office, at 919 S.W. Grady Way in Renton.
There are many contested races and we encourage you to register. In particular is the King County Executive post.
Read more here from the Seattle Times.
Jul
18
A Cascadia Center-supported idea, a 42-mile rail and trail BNSF corridor from Snohomish to Renton has been listed as one of several alternatives in the Puget Sound Regional Council’s long-range transportation plan, “Transportation 2040.”
Read more here from the Snohomish Times.
Jul
17
The “26th Annual National Night Out” (NNO), a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), has been scheduled for Tuesday, August 4, 2009.
Last year’s National Night Out campaign involved citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from over 15,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide. In all, over 37 million people participated in National Night Out 2008.
Read more at the National Night Out 2009 web site.
Jul
16
Renton police say they’ve received reports of con artists going door to door, pretending to be utility bill collectors for the city and trying to collect money.
Read more of the story here at the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Jul
15
RENTON, Wash. — The state Department of Transportation wants approval for what promises to be a noisy project off of Interstate 405 in Renton.
The project would remove a bridge that crosses over the interstate, as well as build a new freeway on-ramp. But in order to do so, WSDOT wants permission to make more noise than is legally allowed for 319 nights.
Read more here from KOMO TV.
Jul
9
A Masonic organization acquired the retail building at 301-309 S. 3rd St. in Renton, WA, for $1.35 million, or about $145 per square foot.
Read more here. Map of site available here.
