Due to declining enrollment, the time to move ninth graders became a possibility sooner than originally planned
the district has spent $774,135 in overtime pay, which is 109 percent of what was budgeted for overtime in the 2013 budget.
One person was transported to Harrison Medical Center with minor injuries.
Thousands of Washington state students, as well as millions of people worldwide, will practice their earthquake-safety skills on Thursday, Oct. 17.
A community forum will be held tonight at 6:30 p.m. for those concerned about ninth grade students in the Central Kitsap District moving up to the high schools next year.
Kingston’s Ian Convy and Madeleine Walker and North Kitsap’s Abigail Baldwin and Katrina Weinman earned PSAT scores among the top one-half percent of students who took the test recently.
The League of Women Voters of Kitsap County held a forum Thursday evening for the 26th Legislative District state Senate debate and conversations with Bremerton School board candidates.
City Council candidates Melody Sky Eisler and Jim Henry tackled the public’s questions Oct. 7, attempting to set themselves apart from each other.
The draft documents include a legal agreement between the state Department of Ecology and Pope Resources. The agreement, called a consent decree, outlines how Pope Resources will clean up in-bay sediments and the shoreline near the former mill site.
The North Kitsap Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 3586 will host a benefit on Oct. 19 for the family of its president, Louie Sorensen, who has stage 4 cancer.
Volunteers are needed to help proctor the 2013 PSAT at South Kitsap High School on Saturday, Oct. 19.
Revenues are projected to increase about 5 percent for the Port of Bremerton next year. But expenses are expected to be up more than 22 percent. That was the preliminary report given to port commissioners Tuesday when they began the process of looking at the 2014 operating budget for the port.
The Kingston High School homecoming parade Oct. 10 was part of homecoming week.
Books will be sold $5 per grocery bag Oct. 11 and $3 per bag Oct. 12. All remaining books Oct. 13 are free.
The Washington Music Educators Association awarded the program with $6,500.
Heroin use is on the rise in Kitsap. School board candidates talk about the issues. Motorsports Hall of Famer may bring web show and 100 boats to Poulsbo. Those are among the top stories in the Oct. 11 North Kitsap Herald, available now at newsstands and in stores.
State officials said last month, 33,300 residents of Kitsap County received food assistance funds.
Randy Screws, acting plant manager of the South Kitsap Water Reclamation Facility in the West Sound Utility District, was presented the 2013 Operator of the Year Award for Western Washington by the Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association.
In 1915, Franz Kafka wrote a novel about a man who was arrested by two unidentified agents from an undetermined agency and put on trial before unseen judges for an unspecified crime. He was compelled to defend himself without knowing what crime he’d allegedly committed.
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, the State Route 104 Hood Canal Bridge will close to vehicular traffic from 11:15 a.m. to around 11:45 a.m.