Site Logo

Life

Port Orchard shines up ride, slicks back hair for Classics weekend

Classic cars, classic rock, classic, all part of four-day-long party on Bay Street, Aug. 7-10.

Life

WWCA features jive-talking plant in an American Classic

While the Broadway production, and much of the cult film’s popularity, didn’t come until the mid 1980s, “The…

Life

Indianola resident brings Argentine Tango to North Kitsap

Traveling tango dancers slated

News

Project’s sewer service still up for grabs

While much of the current debate surrounding the two South Kitsap Industrial Area annexation petitions to the city…

Opinion

Thanks to WSF, you still can’t get there from here

Among the iconic images of Washington state, those of the state’s quaint green-and-white ferry boats have no peer…

Opinion

Don’t repeat others’ healthcare mistakes

Maine and Massachusetts are learning that doing the math carefully before passing legislation would have saved a lot…

Opinion

Let’s create more avenues for our kids’ education

Today, most family-wage jobs in Washington require some form of post-secondary education or training.

Opinion

Life is a bowl of cherries — or at least it oughta be

I grew up in a fruit bowl.

News

SKIA’s major property owner backs annexation

For David Overton, who owns the majority of the property in the South Kitsap Industrial Area not owned…

Heidi Jablonski

Life

Port Orchard store opens doors to budding musicians

Perhaps proving that musical ability can be inherited, 5-year-old Reese Myers easily coaxed sounds from both a flute…

Scott Sodorff guided the South Kitsap girls soccer team to a 19-10-4 record in two seasons.

Sports

Soccer coach(es) wanted

t SK girls team’s Sodorff stepping down for move

Pitcher Trey Watt is one of several BlueJackets who have been called up to fill in for injured players so far during this season.

Sports

BlueJackets stay within reach of Bend in playoff race | Baseball

The Kitsap BlueJackets are hoping a rising wind will have them coming up around the Bend. And if…

The Trimble Mansion

News

Trimble Mansion’s 60-year-old fire mystery solved

It started innocently enough. Sixty years ago, a 16-year-old Don Winslow and his friend Keith Williams were trying…

Architect’s rendering of new Kitsap County Morgue.

News

Work set to begin on new Kitsap morgue

Construction work is set to begin this week on the new Kitsap County Morgue, pulling the county out…

Opinion

Pinning the blame on nature’s occasional fury

The drive between Portland and Cannon Beach in northwest Oregon reminds us that, when nature unleashes its fury,…

News

WSF official: System ‘not financially sustainable’

Washington State Ferries is the largest ferry system in the United States, carrying 24 million passengers a year,…

Opinion

Bremerton’s boardwalk will be bad for fish

Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written…

Amy Igloi-Matsuno and her husband signed the papers to purchase their Port Orchard restaurant the first day they saw it. And they haven’t looked back since.

Life

Amy’s on the Bay owner feels a need to repay community for her good fortune

A popular theory among entrepreneurs is that rewards don’t come without risk. It’s a philosophy in which Amy…

News

United Way of Kitsap launches community center campaign

United Way of Kitsap County has launched a campaign that would transform its 19,000-square-foot building in Bremerton into…

News

35th District race offers candidates with starkly different visions

At Tuesday morning’s 35th Legislative District Position 1 debate sponsored by the Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce, the…