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    Articles by Greg Skinner
    Methadone clinics can be built in Bremerton, public health says it’s too late
    Methadone clinics can be built in Bremerton, public...
    By Greg Skinner • January 24, 2012 10:05 pm

    Many in Bremerton felt victory last August when the city imposed a six-month moratorium on building methadone clinics.

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    Suspicious fire in Central Kitsap
    Suspicious fire in Central Kitsap
    By Greg Skinner • January 23, 2012 8:30 pm

    Authorities are investigating a fire that gutted the Island Lake Park cabin and injured a fireman early Sunday morning.

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    One car spins its way up 1st Street in Bremerton Wednesday morning as another struggles to back out of the ditch.
    Light traffic and bad commute, government largely closed
    By Greg Skinner • January 18, 2012 11:40 am

    Schools didn’t open and the U.S. Navy expected to start two hours late today, but Katie Mairs was at her post in the Bremerton Safeway Starbucks and open at 5:50 a.m. serving coffee to the few who came in.

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    Navy settles with EPA on Silverdale fuel tanks
    Navy settles with EPA on Silverdale fuel tanks
    By Greg Skinner • January 17, 2012 9:15 pm

    The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Navy has reached a settlement for $161,000 after failing to monitor underground fuel tanks for leaks on its Silverdale Property.

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    Fire races through the attic space of a Silverdale Way retail complex as it destroys six business Sunday afternoon in what became a three alarm fire that drew crews from Bremerton and Naval Base Kitsap.
    Fire destroys six Silverdale businesses
    By Greg Skinner • January 13, 2012 2:49 pm

    A three-alarm fire destroyed six businesses in a Silverdale retail complex Sunday afternoon sending various employees into the parking lots at 9995 Silverdale Way NW as it quickly devoured the building.

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    The Admiral Theater’s marquee shows last weekend’s lineup and the reason many say the city-owned theater deserves more of the city’s lodging tax revenue for operations.
    City increases Admiral’s share of lodging tax
    By Greg Skinner • December 16, 2011 7:24 am

    The Bremerton City Council Wednesday voted to increase the Admiral Theatre’s share of special tax revenues from $90,000 to $150,000 annually.

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    Greg Skinner/staff photo Members of “Cut the Fat” protest proposed city layoffs during Bremerton City Council deliberations on the 2012 budget. The council voted Dec. 7 to charge a $20 tax on cars to fund some streets’ employees.
    Bremerton car tax passes after balked budget vote
    By Greg Skinner • December 15, 2011 7:19 pm

    Money to join other tax increases to bail out the city’s Street Fund

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    Canine deputy bites suspect scrap thief
    Canine deputy bites suspect scrap thief
    By Greg Skinner • December 12, 2011 6:55 pm

    “Sheriff’s Office K-9, stop or you will be bit,” wasn’t enough of a command for William Snell to obey it.

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    Canine deputy bites suspect scrap thief
    Canine deputy bites suspect scrap thief
    By Greg Skinner • December 12, 2011 6:52 pm

    “Sheriff’s Office K-9, stop or you will be bit,” wasn’t enough of a command for William Snell to obey it.

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    City increases Admiral’s share of lodging tax
    City increases Admiral’s share of lodging tax
    By Greg Skinner • December 12, 2011 6:48 pm

    The Bremerton City Council Wednesday voted to increase the Admiral Theatre’s share of special tax revenues from $90,000 to $150,000 annually.

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    Food fight leads to DUI
    Food fight leads to DUI
    By Greg Skinner • December 6, 2011 8:33 pm

    When Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled over an East Bremerton man Monday afternoon they found him drunk, irate, bleeding from the head and surrounded by frozen food.

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    Quick draw sends bullet into neighbor’s house
    Quick draw sends bullet into neighbor’s house
    By Greg Skinner • December 6, 2011 12:12 pm

    A man practicing a quick draw routine with his .40 caliber semi-Automatic handgun fired a round that narrowly missed hitting a 17-year-old girl in the head as she stood talking to her grandfather Dec 2, according to authorities

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    Street sweeper assaulted and robbed at Fred Meyer
    Street sweeper assaulted and robbed at Fred Meyer
    By Greg Skinner • December 6, 2011 11:24 am

    A street sweeper cleaning the parking lot at Bremerton Fred Meyer store was beaten and robbed at gunpoint as he worked in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to authorities.

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    County’s proposed 2012 budget relies on layoffs and hope
    County’s proposed 2012 budget relies on layoffs and...
    By Greg Skinner • November 30, 2011 7:44 pm

    The few members of the public to testify Monday on the proposed 2012 Kitsap County budget criticized plans to cut law and justice budgets and said any further reduction to jail staffing will affect safety.

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    City to hear public on tax hike
    City to hear public on tax hike
    By Greg Skinner • November 16, 2011 3:45 pm

    Tonight, the council will hold a public hearing on three ordinances that would add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the city’s beleaguered revenue sheets – with much of it going to the Street Fund – by taxing utilities.

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    Brian Sullivan and Melissa Ripley cross the temporary pedestrian path built between the historic Manette Bridge and the newly constructed replacement Tuesday afternoon. The new span is expected to open at noon on Nov. 10.
    Manette Bridge to open on Nov. 10
    By Greg Skinner • November 4, 2011 1:58 pm

    For more than 20 years Neelam Madu’s customers have turned right off the Manette Bridge, and right past the R&K Market on Harkins Street – a classic convenience store stop on the way home from the shipyard or downtown.

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    Manette Bridge to open on Nov. 10
    Manette Bridge to open on Nov. 10
    By Greg Skinner • November 4, 2011 1:58 pm

    For more than 20 years Neelam Madu’s customers have turned right off the Manette Bridge, and right past the R&K Market on Harkins Street – a classic convenience store stop on the way home from the shipyard or downtown.

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    City budget, jobs cut, taxes raised and money moved
    City budget, jobs cut, taxes raised and money...
    By Greg Skinner • November 1, 2011 2:33 pm

    The proposed 2012 Bremerton city budget is explained within itself as being four things, balanced, conservative, living within the city’s financial means and rebuilding the city’s reserve fund.

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    Giant Pumpkin Grower Mark Murphy performs an 'autopsy' on one of his Atlantic Giants to determine the fruit's rhine thickness and internal cavity size in effort to better prepare for the next growing season.
    Extreme pumpkins — Up and coming local grower...
    By Greg Skinner • October 28, 2011 4:47 pm

    At the end of each pumpkin growing season Mark Murphy autopsies his crop of giants.

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    Bremerton mixes layoffs and property tax increase to balance 2012 budget
    Bremerton mixes layoffs and property tax increase to...
    By Greg Skinner • October 28, 2011 4:44 pm

    With Band-Aid fixes and budget patches all used up, the City of Bremerton says it has little choice but to raise property taxes and lay off more than two dozen workers in an effort to send a balanced budget to City Council for action before an early December vote and adoption.

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