The Sidney Art Gallery in Port Orchard will feature local Port Orchard artist Pat Meras through the end of this month with a public reception from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Those in remission also gathered around South Kitsap’s track — and thousands of high schools around the country — to celebrate survival last week during the annual Relay for Life.
The top agenda item on the Citizens Budget Review Committee’s list of recommendations might not fit with a maintenance-and-operations levy.
The toll on the bridge will cost $4 for Good to Go! (up from $2.75) pass users, $5 for cash (up from $4) and $6 for Pay By Mail (up from $5.50) customers.
The old furniture roundup is scheduled from 8 to 4 p.m. Sunday. The one-day event is held at the Olympic View Transfer Station in the Olympic View Industrial Park across from the Bremerton National Airport on Highway 3.
Join the Washington State University’s Small Farms Program and Fungi Perfecti and learn how easy it is to grow your own mushrooms. The one-day workshop, “Cultivating Edible Mushrooms,” will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Norm Dicks Government Center at 345 6th Street in Bremerton.
I enjoyed your opinion on the importance of local elections. They encourage necessary democratic participation to keep us free, and incubators for higher offices. Things learned are easily transferred upward, especially how to work well with others to create effective government.
Coming back to Port Orchard, the place where my family and I lived for 20 years and where I wrote a column for 10, is harder than I imagined. I see ghosts everywhere. I miss the good hearts of Joe Mogavero, Kurt Wagner, Marie Erdmann, Margie Rees, Al Kono and countless others. I miss Babe Ruth Baseball.
The city’s 2008 Comprehensive Plan was certified by the Puget Sound Regional Council June 1. The document, which consists of detailed plans for the city’s future, including transportation structure, parks plans, housing, utilities and other city functions was submitted to the council in hopes of garnering approval for the plans, said James Weaver, Port Orchard’s planning director.
Chairman Ethan Kalkwarf said Tuesday that the two-day event last week raised $142,000 and he expects that to increase when final donations are tallied next week.
The power went out at 8:40 a.m. Thursday morning. Outages ranged from Bethel Avenue south of the Hi-Joy Bowling Alley, north through all of downtown to about the Port Orchard Yacht Club, said Jay Cookson, the city’s public works supervisor.
Senior placed at Mat Classic in 220-pound weight class and nearly quarterbacked the football team to a playoff appearance
New coach has switched terminology team used under D.J. Sigurdson
Thefts have been an ongoing problem in the boys’ locker room at South Kitsap High School, but one attempt to stop them crossed a line.
Hidden Creek Elementary School placed on modified lockdown
Bear, three coyotes spotted May 31 on Converse Street campus
With the announcement of former Port Orchard Lary Coppola’s entry into the Kitsap County Commissioner’s race in the closing minutes of filing week local politicking took a step up.
Skjonsby, Giddings both struggle with tennis tourney conditions
Representatives from Washington state’s ferry system met Tuesday at Harper Church to discuss potential ferry system updates.
Marcus Carter, the executive officer of the club, said shooters once again took to the range May 1, months after the popular shooting club was closed when Pierce County Superior Court Judge Susan Serko agreed with Kitsap County prosecutor Russell Hauge that the club was a public nuisance and ordered it not to use the property as a shooting range until a Kitsap County conditional use permit was issued.
A partnership between Kitsap County and Key Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will keep a South Kitsap park open daily through October.