The Port of Bremerton Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Thursday to take another month to consider its options before possibly petitioning the City of Bremerton to annex the South Kitsap Industrial Area.
The bids came in and the Port Orchard City Council backed away, opting to head back to the drawing board on the city’s long-planned undergrounding project.
The last-minute discovery of a problem with the steel welding on a Washington State ferry serving the San Juan Islands has delayed boat swaps that would have affected both the Triangle and Bremerton routes, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) Ferries Division.
Previously, the ferry system had planned to loan the Tillikum from the Southworth-Vashon-Fauntleroy route to the Bremerton-Seattle route while the 124-car Kitsap went into dry dock for a “week of scheduled maintenance.”
For 20 years, death called and Pastor Melvin Byrd answered.
As a chaplain for South Kitsap Fire and Rescue, Byrd spent at least one week a month of the past two decades waiting for the phone to ring, knowing that at any moment he could have another date with tragedy.
A South Kitsap pastor pleaded guilty last month to raping and molesting at least four girls who attended the church he ran out of his home in South Colby, according to court documents.
Robbin Leeroy Harper, 60, a longtime pastor with The Church in South Colby, pleaded guilty to eight counts that include first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, and fourth-degree assault.
As state lawmakers prepared this week to wrap up their latest legislative session, one longtime Democrat announced that she is wrapping up her 12-year career in the 26th District.
“I believe it is time to turn my full attention to my family,” said Rep. Pat Lantz, D-Gig Harbor, explaining that she plans to focus on her husband, three children and five grandchildren. “It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the people … (but I) will not seek a seventh term.”
Amid piles of furniture, power tools and pieces of wood, Mike Gold is working to remodel the inside of what was once a bar with a reputation for trouble.
Gold and his business partner, Eric Houg, are opening The Slip 45 Sports Bar and Shipwreck Lounge at the location of the Mako’s Bar and Grill, which held the attention of the Police Department for its reputation of fighting and drug activity.
Everyone will pay a dollar more to cross the Tacoma Narrows Bridge come July if recommendations from the span’s Citizen Advisory Committee are implemented, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
After completing what Reema Griffith, executive director of the Washington State Transportation Commission, called an “aggressive” meeting schedule, the CAC decided to recommend raising the toll prices to $2.75 for those with transponders, and to $4 for those without.
The longest serving judge on the Kitsap County Superior Court bench has announced his retirement, and that he will not seek a fifth elected term.
“My wife is now retired and we’re looking toward spending some time together,” Judge Leonard Costello said on Monday. “I’ve been here 28 years and it’s time to move on.”
Michael Pratt, director of wildlife services at the West Sound Wildlife Shelter on Bainbridge Island, answered the call of Manchester resident Keith Morris Tuesday, who saw an eagle on the side of the road, flopping around in a ditch with a limp wing.
Morris and another driver began calling Animal Control and the Department of Fish and Wildlife until someone could come out and help the injured bird two hours later.
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The Port of Bremerton Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to “pause” progress on its Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) project until a third-party review can be completed on both its business plan and financial scheme.
“I am absolutely bombarded with inquiries from people in calls, e-mails and in public regarding SEED,” Chair Cheryl Kincer said during the board’s study session devoted to the project. “It is so obvious that not everyone has all the answers to their questions.”
With oversight from Councilman Fred Chang, the city of Port Orchard is looking to revamp its Web site and greatly expand the site’s offerings.
A little-known but widely appreciated program sponsored by Olympic College exists to provide consulting services for local small businesses, offering advice and coaching to increase the chances of success and profitability.
“A large corporation can afford to hire a management consultant at thousands of dollars a day,” said Rand Reidrich, who directs the local Small Business Development Center. “We want to make the same options available to ‘mom-and-pop’ businesses that could never afford these services.”
An overcrowded table of students sat in the center of a noisy common space during the lunch hour at John Sedgwick Junior High on Friday.
Atypical of many teens during their lunch hour, this group was carefully attentive and spoke clearly and articulately with their guests.
A Port Orchard attorney has announced his candidacy for the Kitsap County Superior Court, but is deferring his decision as to which of the eight positions to seek until the June 6 filing deadline.
Bruce Danielson, 55, currently a sole practitioner, began his campaign this week by filing financial disclosure paperwork and declaring his intention to run.
South Kitsap firefighters will be suiting up and climbing stairs for a good cause for not just one weekend, but the next two.
Battalion Chief Steve Wright of South Kitsap Fire and Rescue said this year instead of just participating in the annual Scott Firefighter Climb at Columbia Tower in downtown Seattle, the department has decided to go the extra mile — or mile of stairs, perhaps — and raise money beforehand, as well.
A local defense attorney was charged this month with vehicular assault after hitting a bicyclist in Olalla while allegedly driving drunk in November.
Jeniece L. LaCross, 36, who practices law in Kitsap County, was arraigned in Pierce County Superior Court Feb. 8 on one count of vehicular assault and three counts of reckless endangerment.
The sinkhole repair design will cost around $80,000, and construction is scheduled to begin in April, according to an update given by Public Works Director Maher Abed to the Port Orchard City Council on Tuesday.
Abed requested approval to sign a contract with WestSound Engineering to design the reconstruction of the pipe that caved in during the Dec. 3 rain storms.
While strong support exists in the Washington State Senate for a bill that suggests naming the new span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge after the late Sen. Bob Oke, at least one local representative said the feeling is not the same in the House.
“There is no interest in (Senate Joint Memorial 8026) in the house,” said Rep. Pat Lantz, (D-Gig Harbor), referring to the bill that was approved by the Senate Transportation Committee and passed on to the Rules Committee last week. “There is no one from the (26th) district championing the idea in the house.”
The company providing wireless Internet access on several Washington State Ferries routes announced last week that service on the local Triangle route is now active.
“We’re providing a strong and persistent Wi-Fi signal to the terminals and auto holding areas as well as to the ferries servicing the Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth run,” said Bob Davis, a vice president with Parsons, the company hired by WSF in 2006 to put Wi-Fi on most of its routes.
