In a move that took nearly everyone in the neighborhood by surprise, City of Bremerton street crews recently cut down 30 globe locust trees along 4th Street between Naval and Warren.
Mother of boy who shot classmate takes plea deal
Family of victim asks where is the justice
Opening day of this year’s lowland lakes fishing season was April 28 and while big trout boosted creel reports in Kitsap County, law enforcement reports that boating safety among anglers didn’t keep pace.
Jack Stanfill, who lives in the 2400 block of Northlake Way, is concerned about the safety of the street he calls home.
Police are unwilling to confirm the identity of the “person of interest” in the Bremerton serial killer case, but some new details about the investigation have emerged in recent weeks.
When it comes to securing federal money for local streets, Bremerton city planners have long thought about bicyclists, pedestrians, buses and cars, according to City Engineer Gunnar Fridriksson.
The City of Bremerton has announced a construction schedule for replacing a downtown sewer line this summer.
Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent said that the city did “miraculously well” in conserving water throughout the past month.
The overall crime rates for both the City of Bremerton and Kitsap County were up slightly in 2011, according to a newly released report from the Washington Association of Sheriff’s and Police Chiefs.
More than 170 veterans poured into Bremerton’s Sheridan Community Center Saturday for a county-wide Stand Down for Veterans to hook up with free services ranging from legal aid to haircuts to mortgage assistance.
The City of Bremerton is moving forward with efforts to complete improvements to a pair of downtown parks.
City councilors were likely to approve a pair of grant applications this week to obtain more money to finish work at Anderson Cove and Evergreen Rotary parks.
After taking a plea deal, a man who rendered criminal assistance to Joshua Blake following the shooting of Washington State Trooper Tony Radulescu Feb. 23 in Gorst, got a stiffer sentence than expected.
Approximately 50,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Port Washington Narrows beginning Sunday, May 6, after a sewer line failure near Marlow Avenue northwest of the Manette Bridge in East Bremerton.
The sad truth is that we will never know why Dr. Dale Ireland left us so suddenly April 25. We can try all we want to discover it, but we will never get there.
One thing that seems certain, for now at least, is that the stars are shining a little less brightly over Kitsap County now that he is gone.
There will be no shortage of fun and exciting events this summer in and around Bremerton.
The city’s last utilities rate study was performed in 2005. In recent months, the Bremerton City Council, in the face of a $2 million budget shortfall, voted to raises taxes on both the wastewater and stormwater utilities by 5 percent to funnel some of the money in the flush utility funds into accounts to pay for city streets, which the council said was a top priority and they had no other way to fund.
The proposed projects include paving on Belfair Valley and Lake Flora roads, installation of traffic calming devices on Hanford Avenue, continuing remediation work at the former Chevron property, streetscape improvements on Washington Avenue and replacement of the city’s existing pedestrian signals.
The work will begin near the cemetery at 12th and Naval and then run along 11th Street between Naval and Montgomery. From there, new pipe will be installed along Montgomery, in front of Safeway, for about a block and a half. The 11th Street portion alone, is expected to bring a two-month closure.
No members of the public attended the open session which effectively served as a recap and update on the years-long effort to bring industrial development to a 3,700-acre area anchored by Bremerton National Airport.
The Kitsap Transit Board of Commissioners Tuesday approved a pilot program for a free-fare ticket system to benefit the county’s vulnerable population.
The test program begins in May and runs through the end of the year.
