Site Logo

News

Art Mikelsen’s impact extended to many

Mikelsen, who did not wake up from a nap Aug. 30 at Stafford Healthcare at Ridgemont in Port…

News

Stove causes fire in South Kitsap home

The Kitsap County Kitsap County Fire Marshal’s Office reported a Sept. 1 South Kitsap home fire was started…

Players from the South Kitsap Western Little League hold up a $10

News

Van Boeyen Field awarded $10,000 for improvements

More than 200 people — mostly Little League players in uniforms — watched as South Kitsap Western Little…

News

Kitsap Rescue Mission received $9,000 from United Way

The United Way Board of Directors present a $9,000 check to Walt LeCouteur, executive director of the Kitsap…

South Kitsap Fire and Rescue crews battle an early morning fire on Sept. 2

News

Fire destroys South Kitsap mobile home

An early morning fire completely destroyed a double-wide mobile home on Sept. 2, according to South Kitsap Fire…

News

Back to School: 10 Ways to keep students, pedestrians and motorists safe

As the new school year begins, AAA Washington urges drivers to be aware and extra cautious when traveling…

Former Independent associate publisher Lorraine May died Aug. 30 at her Bremerton home. She retired from the newspaper in June.

News

Former Independent associate publisher dies

Former associate publisher Lorraine May passed away on Aug. 31 in her home in Bremerton.

News

Advisory issued for toxic blue-green algae in Long Lake

Water samples collected from Long Lake on Aug. 27 show toxic levels of Cyanobacteria that, if ingested in…

Opinion

DON BRUNELL | Pity the poor ‘streamers’

The birds are falling victim to a massive solar energy installation in California’s Mojave Desert.

Renard Williams

Sports

FOOTBALL | Wolves’ legend returns to ‘give back to youths’

Williams, a 2007 South Kitsap graduate, will work with linemen this season

South Kitsap senior Marshaud DeWalt added 22 pounds of muscle to his 5-foot-5 frame during the offseason. He now weighs 256 pounds.

Sports

FOOTBALL | Family at center of DeWalt’s success

South Kitsap running back pays homage to relatives

South Kitsap senior Cooper Canton is the first quarterback to start for the Wolves in consecutive seasons since Gordy Anderson in 2008-09.

Sports

FOOTBALL PREVIEW | Wolves’ schedule could provide an early test

South Kitsap coach calls this year’s schedule a ‘gauntlet’

Staff and teachers from the South Kitsap School District gathered at Joe Knowles Field on Aug. 27 to send a message to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

News

SKSD staff, teachers want R-E-S-P-E-C-T

A video made by the South Kitsap School District caught the eye of Washington Post education reporter Valerie…

Cory Vartanian will serve as the offensive coordinator this season with coach Eric Canton inheriting more defensive responsibilities.

Sports

FOOTBALL | Vartanian vague on South Kitsap’s offensive overhaul

New coordinator expects to the offense to expand as the season progresses

News

Night work planned on State Routes 16 and 3

Crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation will continue a paving project that will require a…

News

FROM THE SHELVES | Summer’s winding down

As summer is winding down, the Port Orchard Library is happily giving out hundreds of free paperbacks purchased…

News

Kitsap residents invited to weigh in on funding, routes, and schedules for future passenger-only ferry service

Kitsap Transit has launched the second of two online community surveys to help guide development of its business…

News

Port Orchard Farmers Market to honor longtime vendors

The Port Orchard Farmers Market has planned to honor several longtime vendor on Aug. 30.

Security personnel checks a driver license of an individual before entering the Crockpot

News

First pot shop in Kitsap County opens

Security personnel checks a driver license of an individual before entering the Crockpot, Kitap County’s first store to…

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gilberton

News

Couple weds in Idaho ceremony

Robert Joe Gilbertson and Karla Sue Oakley, both of Olalla, were married July 27, 2014, in Idaho.