This week’s flood fell short of epic disaster proportions, but not because Mother Nature didn’t pull out all the stops. Instead, the county’s preparedness level and careful planning served to mitigate the damage.
One of the first actions of Kitsap County’s Department of Emergency Management is to connect to 911 and filter out the life-threatening situations for immediate attention.
Video: Emergency personnel discuss flood effort
Last weekend in Port Orchard, several children sat down to a fancy tea with Santa Claus, which was perhaps a dream come true.
But for Heather Cole, the woman who hosted the event, the tea parties meant only some of her dream has come true, but not quite all.
A South Kitsap family that was in the running to win a paid vacation courtesy of the Disney Corp. and ABC’s “Good Morning America” learned last week it had been chosen for the grand prize.
“I’m in shock — tonight I’m going to be screaming in my pillow,” said Sarah Acoba when the television crews arrived at her home to deliver the good news.
The scene is idyllic — a small town nestled into the corner of an ocean inlet, bedecked with charm, colorful characters and enough stories to fill seven books.
And if the world of Cedar Cove, found in a series of books written by Debbie Macomber, sounds familiar, it’s because the author based her fictional, small-town paradise on Port Orchard. And with a little help from some local residents, Macomber will bring the characters and story back into the city for a days-long festival.
Coverage of the Dec. 7 Puget Sound Leadership Ferry Summit, with videos of the participants and a portion of an address by U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks.
Port Orchard Mayor-Elect Lary Coppola intends to complete his term on the Kitsap County Planning Commission, saying there is no conflict of interest. And South Kitsap Commissioner Jan Angel, who nominated Coppola to the Planning Commission in 2001, agrees.
If there is a heaven and people can indeed look down on us after they die, longtime Port Orchard resident Edwin Simonson would have enjoyed quite a sight Tuesday afternoon.
To say goodbye to the 88-year-old motorcycle enthusiast, Simonson’s family enlisted the help of a Harley-Davidson hearse that carried him on a final ride through town past his favorite spots before putting him to rest at Sunset Lane Cemetery.
South Kitsap residents may soon face a rate increase on their sewer utility, which raised concerns among those attending a public hearing on Wednesday about the per-house method of determining rates.
It took a small, wheeled robot to figure out how to handle the 50-foot sink hole on Bethel Avenue — and the results aren’t great.
After sending a wheeled-camera into a broken drainage pipe, the city’s Department of Public Works is blaming sinkhole on a non-standard pipe running along Bethel Avenue.
The smooth sounds of jazz emanated from the trumpets and saxophones of South Kitsap High School marching band as patrons entered The Orchard.
For the seventh consecutive year Kitsap County has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the 2007 EPA WasteWise Program Local Government Partner of the Year.
The popularity of Cedar Cove, Debbie Macomber’s fictional rethinking of Port Orchard, has only grown over time, drawing attention from fans across the country — even the world.
Macomber first came to write about Port Orchard after several other book series, thinking that it was time to feature an area she knew intimately.
Public testimony taken at a Port Orchard meeting of the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) overwhelmingly favored Kitsap County’s disassociation from the regional advisory council and make all planning decisions locally.
Every year, Donna Printz says she is going to retire. But then every year, she’s back answering the phone for Santa and planning his day sailing along South Kitsap’s shoreline to greet anxious residents.
“This is my 13th year,” said Printz, secretary of both the Port Orchard Yacht Club, which hosts the lighted boat parade, and Santa himself, since she personally talks to most of the people who request a message from Mr. Claus.
Local law enforcement officials were still searching this week for a man who robbed a local bank branch late Tuesday afternoon, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The Manchester Community Plan is, for the moment, completed and agreeable to a group of residents who believe the original document “lacked teeth” in restricting commercial buildings to two stories.
An earlier petition against the Downtown Overlay District has been withdrawn, leaving the document regulating developments in Port Orchard’s core uncontested.
Marge Gissberg and Paulie Williams filed the petition with the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board in November and were scheduled for a pre-hearing with the board and the city last week.
With an attendance count usually reserved evenings on which truly controversial matters are to be discussed, residents and local political figures poured into the Port Orchard City Council’s last meeting of the year to commemorate the end of Bob Geiger’s 45-year term as a council member.
At her arraignment, the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office charged Manchester resident Amber J. Debord with first-degree murder in the death of Michele L. Burton on March 13.
“Based upon the investigation conducted by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, we felt pre-mediation was involved,” said Case Manager Cris Casad, who declined to elaborate on what pieces of evidence indicated pre-mediation.
Pennye Nixon-West, executive director of Etta Projects, a nonprofit humanitarian organization working in Bolivia, has earned received the “En el Dia Internacional de la Mujer” (International Woman’s) award while visiting Etta Projects’ service sites in Montero, Bolivia.
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