Someone wants you to have free Wi-Fi downtown. And no, you won’t be required to buy a latté. Brian Moran of Banyan Telecom proposed the idea to Port of Kingston Commission at its Oct. 28 meeting. His plan would quadruple the current free Wi-Fi coverage in Kingston provided by the Kitsap Public Utilities District.
Ken Thomas was elected to a full term on the Poulsbo City Council, Position 1, Nov. 3. In unofficial election results posted at 8:05 p.m., Thomas has 790 votes to Amanda Cheatham’s 509. Poulsbo City Council members are elected to four-year terms. They receive $700 a month.
Port of Kingston commissioners moved forward Oct. 28 in their search for a new manager following the resignation of David Malone.
Port of Kingston commissioners moved forward Oct. 28 in their search for a new manager following the resignation of David Malone.
Malone resigned Oct. 23 after the port became embroiled in lawsuits filed by Beth Brewster, owner of Kingston Adventures, and another resident, Tania Issa.
KINGSTON — For about five years, Kingston schools have passed out bags of food to hungry students.
It’s done through a program called Food to Grow On, or F2GO, which itself is part of ShareNet. Four “core” volunteers make it work, said Mark Ince, executive director of ShareNet.
HANSVILLE — After 40 years, Big Maple Tree Farm is closing.
Owners Don and Suzanne Sandall, 90 and 80 years old respectively, say they’re too old to continue maintaining the property.
“After trimming trees for 40 years it’s getting kind of old,” Don said. “I’m 90 years old now … it just got to be too much.”
Kitsap Transit’s newest Poulsbo route is also now its most popular.
Route 44 began in February with the intent of connecting downtown to College Marketplace and, by some measures, it’s done just that.
“The reaction’s been quite good,” said Steffani Lillie, Kitsap Transit’s service and capital development director.
BREMERTON — Bremerton High School football coach Joe Kennedy announced Oct. 14 that he will resume prayer at the 50-yard line after games.
Kennedy was expected to be accompanied to a press conference at Seattle Center by Hiram Sasser, deputy legal counsel for the Liberty Institute, a Texas-based non-profit devoted to religious freedom.
KINGSTON — The long-awaited 23,000-square-foot Village Green Community Center is beginning to show signs of a finished product.
The foundation is set. The interior and exterior framing is done. Spaces for windows taller than LeBron James are everywhere — views of Appletree Cove included.
HANSVILLE — The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people in relation to a robbery in Hansville Oct. 8.
Sheriffs say Andrew Sauer, 28, and Adrianne Buckner, 26, both of Kingston, entered Hansville Grocery and Provision Co. around 5:45 p.m. and attempted to steal money from the store register.
The man goose-stepped up to the altar, past the priest and then dropped his backpack. Then he walked behind the altar, smiling and gripping the edges as if he were about to speak.
Driving northeast along Ohio Avenue, it’s easy to miss the outlier. Sitting behind a madrona tree in an almost vacant lot, one of these homes is not like the others. It’s smaller. Much smaller.
BREMERTON — Larry Green was fired from his job as a Bremerton police officer four months ago following an internal investigation that found he had a “consistent and recurring pattern of violating the civil rights of individuals.”
Over a two month time frame in fall 2014 Green was involved in a series of incidents including mishandling evidence, filing inaccurate reports and detaining a handcuffed suspect in the back of his patrol car for 6-11 hours.
Green is appealing his termination.
BREMERTON — I walk into a room in the Kitsap Conference Center called Glacier Cove 2 with my friend Wade. It’s 9 a.m. on a Thursday and I’m a little groggy from the night before. Wade lives in Cle Elum. We don’t see each other often so we had a few beers and played pool with a group of lesbians at A & C Sports Bar. We won on a technicality.
Glacier Cove is a strange place. About a dozen people do about dozen things. There’s a pair of sailors in blue coveralls with pale faces and dark red circles around their eyes. They look strung-out. There’s a nurse in blue scrubs. She looks healthy. There’s man with blue skin wearing dusty, black wingtip shoes, tight red pants and a black dress shirt. He looks dead.
Or at least half dead.
BREMERTON — The Bremerton City Council is considering hiring McClure Consulting to lobby for infrastructure funds on behalf of the city. The firm, led by Mary McClure, would fill the void left when the city opted to leave the Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council.
The city was given six months to reconsider its decision. In November, it will officially be out of the KRCC, although it hasn’t been an active member since voting to leave in May after a long dispute over the group’s voting structure.
BREMERTON — After nearly a week embroiled in controversy, Joe Kennedy approached a lectern before the Bremerton School Board on Sept. 17.
Wet from rain and wearing a pair of black Nike football cleats, the assistant football coach at Bremerton High School stood before the board with his hands tucked in the pockets of his blue Bremerton Knights Football sweatshirt.
BREMERTON — Two months shy of the 2016 election, another race bites the dust.
Sheila Collins, candidate for Bremerton School Board Director Position 1, has thrown her support behind opponent Naomi Evans. It’s too late for Collins’ name to be withdrawn from the November ballots, so she’d like to make her position clear.
“I endorse her wholeheartedly,” Collins said of Evans. “I strongly encourage people to vote and I really, really want them to vote for Naomi.”
BREMERTON — An assistant football coach at Bremerton High School is under investigation for leading post-game prayers at the 50-yard line.
Joe Kennedy, who served 20 years in the Marine Corps, has led the prayers for almost a decade. On Sept. 11, Kennedy said on his Facebook page that someone told him he could be fired for doing so.
BREMERTON — If things go as planned, the rickety old dock at Evergreen Rotary Park won’t be so rickety in six months.
The Bremerton City Council is expected to amend its interlocal agreement with the Port of Bremerton and allow the port to make substantial improvements to the Evergreen Park dock and boat ramp.
BREMERTON — This past Fourth of July, many residents took their garden hoses and soaked their homes in hopes of protecting them from errant Roman candles, spinners, bottle rockets and mortars. Two years from now, they may not have to take the same precautions.
