The overall crime rates for both the City of Bremerton and Kitsap County were up slightly in 2011, according to a newly released report from the Washington Association of Sheriff’s and Police Chiefs.
More than 170 veterans poured into Bremerton’s Sheridan Community Center Saturday for a county-wide Stand Down for Veterans to hook up with free services ranging from legal aid to haircuts to mortgage assistance.
The Klahowya Secondary School Auditorium hosted Monday the 6th Annual Native American Honoring Ceremony for 14 Central Kitsap School District graduating seniors with tribal heritages.
Declines in VFW membership not as severe in Washington state, getting younger veterans involved remains a challenge
Students from kindergarten through high school in most of the country, including Kitsap County, will see curriculum based on new education standards starting in August 2014.
The Common Core standards are meant to encourage analytic thinkers and to close perceived gaps in what high-school graduates learn and what colleges require, lining out standards in English and math meant to make sure a kindergartner entering school in 2014 graduates high school in 2027 ready for college or work.
Local schools say they are already gearing up for the new standards.
The lines of circular holed donuts with yellow and purple sprinkles are indistinguishable from each other.
And that is just the way Reed Burchard intended.
Burchard, 54, who is the baker at Dippity Donuts at 1540 SE Retsil Road in Port Orchard, strives for consistency in each donut, which ranges from Bavarian cream filled to apple bear claws.
The City of Bremerton is moving forward with efforts to complete improvements to a pair of downtown parks.
City councilors were likely to approve a pair of grant applications this week to obtain more money to finish work at Anderson Cove and Evergreen Rotary parks.
Approximately 50,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Port Washington Narrows beginning Sunday, May 6, after a sewer line failure near Marlow Avenue northwest of the Manette Bridge in East Bremerton.
The community forum, attended by several Kitsap County and state officials, took a mostly positive bent as people talked about the services still available in Kitsap County.
Many look forward to the Kitsap Community Shelter, the first overnight drop-in shelter to open in the county, said Housing Solutions Center coordinator Kirsten Jule.
The Kitsap Health District today issued a warning against touching the water or harvesting shellfish along the Port Washington Narrows following a sewage leak that released an estimated 50,000 gallons of untreated human waste into the waterway.
The bartender pours off two pints and sets them on the expansive bar at Silver City Brewery in Silverdale before Chuck Whitacre and Jim Snodgrass.
The last thing drivers need on Warren Avenue. is another stoplight.
Stoplights at 6th Street, 11th Street, 16th Street, Sheridan Road, Sylvan Way, and Riddell Road are already brutal on commuters. There is no “timing” of the lights, where a typical driver would expect to start heading Northbound on Warren from 6th Street and make it through Riddell Road at a 30 mph pace and make all the lights. With the Kitsap Transit’s eastside transfer station located at Sylvan Way, where bus drivers have the ability to auto-change the light and allow bus traffic to have priority and change traffic patterns, it will never occur. Bus drivers routinely control the lights along Warren to hold up hundreds for the priority of a few.
The recent increase in the number of teens graduating from Bremerton High School should be applauded. Regardless of how the increase occurred, each one of those additional students to get a diploma will face a life of better luck, advantage and access.
There will be no shortage of fun and exciting events this summer in and around Bremerton.
Following a few organizational bumps in recent years, organizers are hoping to make the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede special this year.
“Let’s line up for Read Naturally,” Jeff Clark and Lizzy Myers call out as they help lead a class of first-graders down the hall to a computer lab at Naval Avenue Elementary in Bremerton.
Bremerton High School senior Felice Zeitler will be the first in her family to go to college.
Zeitler gets extra coaching because she’s also dyslexic, and had to meet with counselors and persuaded the school to allow her into Advanced Placement classes.
Katy Allen, who took over public works in late December, announced last week that she will leaving at the end of May to become the City Administrator for Liberty Lake.
To have a certain amount of preconceived notion is human. It is what you do with those notions or you act on those notions that really matters.
We can have fun poking at ourselves, but need to be mindful when we poke at others.
The city’s last utilities rate study was performed in 2005. In recent months, the Bremerton City Council, in the face of a $2 million budget shortfall, voted to raises taxes on both the wastewater and stormwater utilities by 5 percent to funnel some of the money in the flush utility funds into accounts to pay for city streets, which the council said was a top priority and they had no other way to fund.