Port Orchard City Council members were reminded on Tuesday night that new state regulations prohibit them from passing city ordinances that would make it impossible for a nonprofit agency to establish a tent city for the homeless on its property.
The new library building Port Orchard covets could conceivably be funded entirely by the Kitsap Regional Library — depending on how long the city is willing to wait for it.
There are no indications that a tent city could be organized in Port Orchard’s to house the city’s homeless anytime soon. Nor has the city council indicated whether it would look unfavorably on such a development.
Owners of 10 adjoining parcels to be polled to determine their preferences
Manchester model train enthusiast constructs quite a spectacle in his backyard garden
The 19th Olalla Bluegrass (& beyond) Festival is an event that came dangerously close to not even happening.
“My impression is that it was dead in the water,” said festival chairman Larry Davis. “The people who were staging the festival before had pretty much reached the point where they either couldn’t or didn’t want to keep it up, and there was a time there where we were really unsure whether or not there would be another Olalla Bluegrass Festival.”
The measure to annex the city of Port Orchard into the Kitsap Regional Library system appeared headed to the lopsided win according to the first returns in Tuesday night’s primary election.
The Port Orchard City Council voted 4-3 on Tuesday night to endorse Proposition 1, which would annex the city into the Kitsap Regional Library District.
Kitsap County Parks and Recreation Department officials have temporarily halted demolition of the elaborate system of jumps, hazards and obstacles that dot Banner Forest’s labrynth of trails.
A Port Orchard resident and ordained minister, Manius has a day job working in the Department of Maintenance for the city of Bremerton. But he’s hoping to supplement his income with a company he’s dubbed “Highway to Heaven.”
But in a somewhat surprising development, Port Orchard Mayor Lary Coppola, after meeting with Kitsap Regional Library officials the following morning, said he’d recommend the city council adopt an official endorsement of the levy request at its Aug. 10 meeting.
Given the financial challenges awaiting in both Olympia and the nation’s capitol, it’s no surprise each of the candidates attending Saturday’s campaign forum at Towne Square Port Orchard used the occasion to position himself or herself as more fiscally responsible that their opponent.
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) is seeking public comment on two sets of transportation projects recommended for funding, and the projects up for consideration include one in South Kitsap as well as a countywide transit study.
The Port Orchard Independent was designated the city’s newspaper of record on Tuesday night, but the decision wasn’t arrived at without several pointed comments exchanged between Mayor Lary Coppola and Councilman Fred Chang.
Local property rights advocates say the facilitator hired to keep the county’s ongoing shorelines debate civil could stand a few lessons in civility herself.
Slowly but surely, acre by acre, Port Orchard continues to expand its boundaries. On Tuesday night, the city council cleared…
Port Orchard cancer survivors and those who support them will be trading shoe leather for a cure tonight as the Relay for Life returns to the South Kitsap High School track.
South Kitsap’s neighbors in Gig Harbor celebrate community’s seagoing heritage
The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) announced the selection of the South Kitsap Regional Park Master Plan Phase 1 Design as one of the first landscapes to participate in a new program testing the nation’s first rating system for green landscape design, construction and maintenance.
The Port Orchard City Council on Tuesday night unanimously adopted a 180-day moratorium on the construction of new billboards within the city limits in order to re-examine and, if necessary, revise its sign code.
