It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize kids’ meals at restaurants and fast food establishments are loaded with fat.
What’s blue, tall and made of concrete?
If you guessed the Anderson Hill overpass, you are correct. Central Kitsap High School juniors Victoria Cartwright and Laura Fedorko spearheaded the effort to power wash and prepare the overpass for a mural. Inspired by overpasses in other communities that provide inviting gateways, Victoria and Laura have volunteered countless hours to make their vision for the Anderson Hill overpass a reality. Known for his dedication to the Clear Creek Trail, community leader Tex Lewis has taken on this project as well.
Please, by all means, don’t let a little thing like driving get in the way of your phone conversation. Well, now you have to. On July 1, a new law went into effect — but apparently there are some special people to whom it does not apply. As on July 1 it became illegal — meaning against the law, a no-no, breaking-the-rules-type against the law — to talk on a cell phone without using a hands-free device while driving. That law also made it an infraction to text while driving.
It has been a few months now that drivers have been able to drive the improved Highway 305 corridor through Poulsbo. For the most part, it seems to work as planned but there are several things that are still needed to make this route more bearable.
Over the past few weeks, an uncredited source has been papering the county with reports of how Port Orchard attorney Bruce Danielson, who is running for Kitsap Superior Court judge, was cited for contempt of court 11 years ago.
For the first time since the state constitution was amended to allow approval by a simple majority of voters, the South Kitsap School District is preparing to place a maintenance and operations levy proposition on the ballot.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that kids’ meals at restaurants and fast food establishments are loaded with fat.
How about this for a way to save money?
Cut high school back to two years. Why do they need four? Most of them just lollygag around in the final two years, some ditching school altogether before they get that far.
They’re busy earning money to support their cars.
Cut high school back to two years. Why do they need four? Most of them just lollygag around in the…
I write in response to Edward Roe’s July 23 “Thumbs Down” in the Port Orchard Independent regarding Adele Ferguson’s column about climate charge (“There’s a lot of hot air in global warming,” July 19).
T he city of Port Orchard drew a line in the sand and Bremerton stepped over it. The question now is whether we plan to do anything about it.
America is hurting.
How about this for a way to save money?
Gov. Chris Gregoire was turned away from an Olympia bar by the bouncer after she was unable to provide her ID.
The governor reportedly forgot her ID at home and was denied access by the 23-year-old who told her no one is allowed in the bar without valid identification. So she went home.
Among the iconic images of Washington state, those of the state’s quaint green-and-white ferry boats have no peer – like Mount Rainier, the Space Needle, and pods of Orcas, the charm exuded by these double-ended vessels serenely crossing Puget Sound or knitting small communities in the San Juan Islands to the world is the stuff of which the dreams of tourism officials are made.
Hate ’em or love ’em, you have to have ’em. With about 35 baseball fields in the county, baseball umpires are as necessary as a sweater in July.
Maine and Massachusetts are learning that doing the math carefully before passing legislation would have saved a lot of pain and suffering.
Today, most family-wage jobs in Washington require some form of post-secondary education or training.
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