Tim Matthes, who announced last week his candidacy for mayor of Port Orchard, believes modifying the wording of state laws relating to property tax valuations would go a long way toward resolving a controversy brewing between the city and the county.
Tim Matthes, who chairs both the Port Orchard Planning Commission and the Kitsap County Board of Equalization, has announced he will file this week to run for mayor of Port Orchard.
Port Orchard Mayor Lary Coppola laments what a weak economy prevented him from accomplishing during his first term in office but believes he’s laid a solid foundation for the second term he’s decided to seek.
Coppola will formally announce his re-election bid on Tuesday morning while speaking to the Port Orchard Rotary Club.
Fairweather noted the Wolves’ record stood at 9-2 after its 10-1 pasting of visiting Bellarmine Prep on Wednesday night — good for third place in the Narrows League behind Olympia and Gig Harbor with two regularly scheduled games left on its schedule.
Gig Harbor resident Randy Boss, who for years has made it his business to dispute anything and everything that could raise toll rates on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, on Tuesday filed paperwork aimed to put a stick in the spokes of plans to toll roads all over Washington state.
Investigators probing the January 23 shooting spree at the Port Orchard Walmart store are “completely convinced” 31-year-old Anthony A. Martinez fired not only the shot that killed himself but also the two shots that killed 13-year-old runaway Astrid Valdivia, with whom he had fled from five days earlier from Utah.
In light of details leaked on Thursday by Kitsap County Prosecutor Russ Hauge to a Utah newspaper, the Washington State Patrol has announced it won’t wait for the Prosecutor’s Office to hold an official press conference about the Jan. 23 shooting at the Port Orchard Walmart store.
South Kitsap’s Karcher Creek earned an unwanted distinction this week, having been added to the Kitsap Health District’s watch list because of high bacteria contamination levels.
County officials have held numerous meetings over the years to determine the public’s hopes for South Kitsap Regional Park, resulting in ambitious plans. But up to now, there’s been little to show for the effort.
That will change in late February, when the park unveils its new playground.
Two people are dead and a pair of Kitsap County deputies were wounded in a shooting incident on Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of the Port Orchard WalMart store.
The Washington State Transportation Commission on Wednesday night complied with state law requiring it to hold another public meeting in Gig Harbor on the question of implementing a photo-tolling system on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
The victim of a fatality car crash in North Kitsap on Friday has been identified as a Port Orchard resident.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Citizen Advisory Committee voted on Wednesday night to recommend a toll of $7 for drivers using the photo-tolling option once tollbooths are removed from the span starting in January.
On paper, the idea of doing away with tollbooths on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and collecting tolls electronically seems elegant in its simplicity.
The problem is, no one has yet figured out how to make the process work.
Voters already already struggling with a lingering recession were in no mood to raise their property taxes further to support library services, as they rejected Kitsap Regional Library’s levy lid lift proposal by a wide margin in Tuesday night’s election.
But the latest road project, which involves replacing the aging Southworth Drive Bridge with a wider, more environmentally sensitive structure, is completely unrelated to earlier construction work and promises to be far less controversial, officials insist.
A young South Kitsap mother was transported to Tacoma General Hospital on Monday after her 4-year-old son accidentally shot her…
The Port Orchard Independent was recognized last week as the first-place winner in the Washington Newspaper Publishers’ Association’s General Excellence competition, which evaluates community newspapers from throughout the state.
Doug Richards’ supporters believe he’ll make a great member of the Washington State House of Representatives precisely because he hasn’t quite grown accustomed to the idea himself.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge commuters won’t be paying less for the privilege of crossing the span anytime soon, but they could be getting a choice in how those tolls are paid.
Photo tolling and pay-by-mail are among the TNB Citizen Advisory Committee will consider when the group meets to review the proposals and associated rates and fees on Oct. 6 at a public meeting in Gig Harbor.
All told, Larson estimates about 60 pets — and their owners — participated in First Lutheran Community Church’s annual Blessing of the Animals service on Sept. 25 at the Mitchell Avenue location.
But the big plays dried up and the mistakes didn’t as the Highclimbers scored 15 points in the final 5:47 of the game to hand the visiting Wolves a 28-18 loss in Narrows League action on Friday night.
