Decades long effort to culminate with 100-year anniversary of SK football in 2020
Energy conservation grants awarded to local farms and others
Vendors will provide free school supplies and more to SKSD students during day-long event
Suspect stayed at family home on Dwight Street in Port Orchard
The suspect, 36-year-old Adam Dunn of Port Orchard, was arrested for second-degree burglary and possession of a burglary tool. He is held in Kitsap County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond.
Northwest lawns are starting to go dormant. Keeping them green is nothing less than a challenge this time of the year as they suffer from the driest time of year in the Pacific Northwest. But with a few changes in your lawncare practices such as mowing with the blade set higher and water for a longer period of time, less frequently, you will be going in the right direction. The standard is a total of one inch a week.
South Kitsap School District Board of Directors president Kathryn Simpson confirmed that interim superintendent Beverly Cheney will start either Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Comanche 202 supported the invasion of Okiniwa during World War II. She watched Russian fishing boats in the 1960s, chased Caribbean pirates in the 1970s and even helped tug a barge used in the movie “Pearl Harbor” in 2000.
Joe Serka, 66, said he could have taken a new job out of state, but was really ready to retire. And while running the vineyard hardly constitutes a break — he estimates he spends 40 to 70 hours a week pruning his three acres of vines and making wine — Serka could not imagine doing anything else.
South Kitsap graduate has not won in Seattle since 2009
Jeff Stokes, son of Port of Bremerton Commissioner Larry Stokes, long has planned to construct a two-story, 3,593-square-foot building with six gas pumps and double-walled fiberglass underground tanks.
South Kitsap School District officials will change their communication procedures after a 5-year-old girl wandered off and could not immediately be found after Monday’s Summer Lunch Program at East Port Orchard Elementary School.
What used to be a fierce rivalry has evolved into a partnership of sorts between the 1972 South Kitsap graduate Dave Villwock and Nate Brown, who will pilot U-17 Miss Red Dot during this weekend’s Albert Lee Cup at Seafair.
The Craigslist ad placed online in mid-July was to the point. “Wanted,” it read. “Elderly Port Orchard couple lost their home to commercial property developers. Homeless and with disabilities.”
But Pickard, who serves as a federal relations liaison for the Association of Washington Principals, said the intention of his meeting was not to eliminate NCLB. He said the law has several good features, such as “raising standards for student achievement.”
The “toxic algae” situation at Kitsap Lake requires more than a scratch to ease the itch, or worse, gotten from the tainted waters. It requires new thinking.
Plans for a town hall style meeting led by Port Orchard Mayor Tim Matthes are moving forward, with an anticipated first meeting scheduled for mid-September.
The time it takes to get a building permit from Kitsap County’s Department of Community Development has shortened compared to the days before the Great Recession, but strides in inspection times are needed, according to the Home Builders Association of Kitsap County.
The Port Orchard City Council approved the interlocal agreement last week, which includes authorization of $110,000 city funds previously budgeted in the 2012 budget, along with money from a $500,000 Washington state grant secured for the pedestrian pathway.
The police department fielded 11,723 calls through June of this year, a 33 percent uptick over the same time last year, said Port Orchard Police Chief Alan Townsend. This continues a trend that saw an eight percent rise in overall calls from 2010 to 2011 and nearly a 20 percent uptick from 2009 to 2010.