In the coming weeks and months, the debate over whether to approve what I consider to be an ill-conceived passenger-only ferry initiative will be gaining steam. A lot of reasons about why I think it is a bad plan and why voters may not or do not have any faith left in the existing leadership to steward it properly will be forthcoming.
In the past five years, I have served twice on a jury that included a full trial with deliberations.
On Sept. 23, 2013, a Kitsap County ordinance was adopted to establish the Mental Health, Chemical Dependency and Therapeutic Court Citizens Advisory Committee. A 1/10th of 1 percent increase in county sales tax was approved as the dedicated funding source. Funding would be distributed through a grant process that met the criteria established and outlined through the Request for Proposal (RFP).
This month, Bremerton households received an informational mailing regarding the upcoming Bremerton School District Capital Projects Levy which will appear on the Feb. 9 ballot.
As a longtime resident, voter and taxpayer in Bremerton who is also the parent of a Bremerton High School student, I continue to fully support the Bremerton School District superintendent and locally elected members of the Bremerton School Board in how they are handling the issue of performance regarding a public employee of the district.
How many of us have been surfing along on a community or news website to have a pop up opportunity of a “Free Trip” present itself. Of course many of us enter only to wonder, “Who actually wins these things?”
The Bremerton City Council decided this year to make significant changes to how federal community block grant money that it receives will be distributed. This year Bremerton is on track to receive about $390,000 of these funds.
The council approved this week to lock the funds – for the next five years – into a specific set of criteria and a zoned target area that includes only the most centered core of downtown Bremerton.
I am a firm believer that each opportunity we take in our lives has a place and a time. There are opportunities that are embraced for long periods of time and some that eventually run their course.
Volunteering is a very basic and fundamental way for citizens and residents to give back to their community. Over the past handful of years, Bremerton has been growing and organizing its base of volunteers into some fundamental programs that have now fully invested themselves into being part of the overall, long term, community improvement solution.
I go where the deals are when it comes to my weekly grocery shopping. My selection of store also depends on what I am in the mood for and what I want to buy.
“Geographical Bachelor” (or, geo bach) is a term military people use to describe someone who is working in a different city than the one in which his family lives. As I wrote last week, geo-baching is becoming more popular for 21st-century military families, especially those in dual-income families or those with high-school age children.
The definition of family travel has undergone significant changes and alterations over the years.
For those of you who happen to be from my generation, growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, the family road trip in the loaded down car traveling miles upon miles to a destination that was never as exciting as you really wanted it to be. Instead the destination typically involved gathering and spending time with family members you barely knew or had never met and a few you wish you could have avoided as long as possible.
Over the years there have been individuals in leadership and elected positions who have truly helped me as a citizen to understand local civics and public stewardship. They have taken the time to talk with me on multiple occasions even when we did not see eye-to-eye on the issue at hand.
In November 2011 the City Council, in a 5-4 vote, approved an ordinance that put the city’s 1 percent funding for the arts program and its subsequent Arts Commission on hold.
Some people love to travel and others, well, not so much. I fall into the category of loving it especially when it is for vacation and pleasure.
This coming Saturday, Feb. 7 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Bremerton City Council will be holding a joint planning session with the mayor and department directors at the Gold Mountain Golf Course Clubhouse.
In the last couple of months, I have been attending a series of study sessions hosted by the Bremerton School District. These are open roundtable meetings that include the district administration, members of the elected school board, members of the public and a group of school district employees who have spent the last year analyzing facility capabilities or limitations of existing district structures.
Even the amazing run of the Seattle Mariners into the 1995 postseason pales in comparison to what our regional fan base has experienced with the incredible ride that the Seahawks have given us in the past two seasons. A ride that is currently headed straight to Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona.
The cabin was built by Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934. It served as the guardhouse for the ammunition depot for many years until 1959.
We participated in one of the Puget Sound region’s largest toy collection runs.
A limit of 12 free meals received within a single year has been recently set by the Legislature’s ethics board.
As the purchaser there are several things you can do to protect your purchases and avoid or reduce the chance of them being stolen out from under your nose.
This month it was revealed that the county is very close to selling a large 220-acre property to the Suquamish Tribe for $1.475 million
