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State budget cuts to city less than expected BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
State budget cuts to the city of Kent were “less painful” than what they could have been considering the budget shortfall dealt with by legislators. Kent will need to slash about
$600,000 from its budget because the state decided to keep all of a liquor excise tax for one year rather than sharing the usual portion with cities. That decision will cost the city about $300,000 the second half of this year and another $300,000
the first half of 2013, said Michelle Wilmot, city community and public affairs director, in her report April 17 to the City Council about the 2012 legislative session. “That’s the one cut we saw,” Wilmot said. “But with as much as $10 million at stake, the $600,000
is less painful.” Mayor Suzette Cooke and Chief Administration Officer John Hodgson met with department heads to try to figure out where to make budget cuts worth $600,000. City staff expects to have a proposal soon about where to make
cuts this year and next year. “There isn’t the wiggle room we usually have,” Cooke said. “We don’t have any cushion.” City officials were concerned the state might take away the nearly $4.9 million the city gets [ more BUDGET page 4 ]
State reveals top bidders for 4 Kent liquor stores BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
Four high bidders received the rights to apply for spirits retail liquor licenses at the four Kent state-run liquor stores. The Washington State Liquor Control Board announced the winning bids Monday for the 167 state-run liquor stores that were part of an online auction
Teen charged for East Hill shooting
Show of color Lisa Michaels and her son, Gavin, weed a flower bed at Northwest Harvest last Saturday. About 300 volunteers – and their families – from Comcast took advantage of a sun-splashed morning to help beautify inside and outside of Kent’s main food distribution center, 22220 68th Ave. S. The effort was part of Comcast Cares Day, one of the nation’s largest single days of service by a corporation, with more than 2,200 volunteers around the state working on a dozen projects. Story, page 18. MARK KLAAS, Reporter
BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
King County prosecutors have charged a 16-year-old
concluded on April 20. The sum of individual bids for the 167 stores totaled $30.75 million, with rights awarded to 121 individual bidders, according to a liquor board media release. Voters approved Initiative 1183 last year to get the state out of the liquor business and [ more STORES page 22 ]
Seattle boy with first-degree assault in connection with a Kent shooting April 14 on the East Hill that left a 19-year-old man wounded. Raqwon J. Slade is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, [ more SHOOTING page 3 ] Finding the
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“My students learn to analyze data and make inferences based on the evidence, they learn how to break apart information and
Meridian Middle School science teacher Michele Chamberlain tries to teach her students to think like
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