The Retsil Annexation, a nine parcel, 2.2 acre annexation located between the intersection of Bay Street and Arnold Avenue to the west and the intersection of Beach Drive and Olney Avenue East was approved by the city council last week.
Ford Mustangs of all shapes, colors and sizes blazed down to Port Orchard’s waterfront Sunday for the 24th Annual Mustangs on the Waterfont event.
She previously guided the school district from 2001-08
It initially was a 10-week program, but Hardison said it was scaled back in 2010 when the South Kitsap School District developed its own. Hardison said Helpline then went to a two-week lunch session in August to close a gap between the district’s program and the beginning of school.
And earlier this year, South Kitsap alternative programs principal Pat Oster received permission from superintendent Dave LaRose to fill it.
The Port Orchard City Council ruled out medical marijuana dispensaries and community medical marijuana gardens at Tuesday night’s city council meetings.
The district’s last four-year levy passed in 2009 with 57.6 percent of the vote. SKSD officials estimated in 2008 that taxpayers’ contributions would increase from $1.90 to $2.27 per $1,000 assessed valuation through the end of the last school year before it increased by one cent. According to Kitsap County Auditor’s records, the rate actually increased from about $2.01 to approximately $2.50 in 2010 and to $2.65 per $1,000 assessed valuation in 2011.
While only 82 countries participated in the 2010 games in Vancouver, every nation save three (South Sudan, Kosovo and Vatican City) will be competing in the 2012 games in London. It’s truly a global event. It’s also the first time every nation will have sent a female athlete.
Slaughter County Brewing Company owners Scott Kirvan, 46, and Connie Jacobs, 47, said their pub, which overlooks Sinclair Inlet in The Beachcomber Restaurant’s old location in the Westbay Center, is just about ready to open.
Port Orchard collected slightly more sales tax revenue than anticipated in May, continuing a trend of tax revenues that keep pace with the city’s 2012 revenue projections.
LaRose was presented with a plaque from the Port Orchard Police Department. School board member Chris Lemke, who served in the Navy, gave LaRose a coin with an American Flag he received while visiting the Pentagon a few months after Sept. 11, 2001.
Orwiler, 48, who is originally from the Central Kitsap area, became infatuated with auctioning when he came to live with the Stokes family as a teenager. Stokes recalled Orwiler showing up “in a $400 car that I wouldn’t pay $40.”
Bev Cheney, who served as the district’s superintendent from 2001-08, is among finalists
Similar to many natives of the area, Kaio-Maddox is aware of the festivals and outdoor activities that are Port Orchard staples. But after spending four years in Forest Grove, Ore., as a student at Pacific University, Kaio-Maddox wanted to learn more about the community.
After all, the 14-year-old not only received an all-expense paid trip to the All-Star Game earlier this month in Kansas City. He also threw out the first pitch Sunday to kick off the Mariners game against the Texas Rangers.
Calvin Goings, a former Pierce County Commissioner who now is an assistant associate administrator for the Small Business Administration, where President Barack Obama appointed him in 2009, told the Port Orchard Chamber of Commerce last week that the economy is moving in the right direction.
Why does West Sound Utility District keep sidestepping the source of its fluoride contaminant? And, why does Port Orchard fall behind the unbiased research of water fluoridation with its health hazards and still allow this toxic manufacturing waste dumping into its naturally pure aquifers?
The City of Port Orchard Planning Commission’s recommendation to not issue business license to medicinal marijuana dispensaries and collective medical marijuana grows is short sighted, dimwitted and, perhaps, a little illegal.
Patients using medical marijuana will likely need to continue to look outside the city limits of Port Orchard for their medicine.
Ranging from 16 feet to nearly 100 feet, the classic style Chris-Craft boats spent the weekend being admired by visitors who took in the sleek lines, classic mahogany and antique helms.