Soon, voters in South Kitsap must turn their attention to the idea of forming a Regional Fire Protection Service Authority to serve Bremerton and the South Kitsap Fire and Rescue fire protection district.
When South Kitsap taxpayers receive their property tax bills next week, they will need to look at the comparison of each levy’s amount for this year and last to see why the bottom line is different.
Adopting countywide land-use planning policies related to annexations by cities might be easier if there weren’t impacts on revenues available…
A state constitutional amendment to authorize reductions in the compensation of elected and appointed public officers and judges may be placed on the November ballot by the Legislature.
Looking back over the past year and forward to the new year, several issues of interest to South Kitsap residents…
If Santa Claus were to accept helpers from within the public school system for this year’s deliveries, he’d have to…
When strong winds blow, the large trees in South Kitsap that are valued for their contribution to our area’s natural…
The “slow food” movement has come to Kitsap County with the county commissioners’ proclamation of Terra Madre Day to be celebrated today.
Residents of Port Orchard and South Kitsap get a second chance to become involved in the Kitsap Regional Library levy planning, whether it’s for expansion or merely maintaining the current level of service.
There is nothing that can turn up the heat in an election season like a bad economy, especially since so…
The lengthy effort to form a regional fire protection service authority consisting of Bremerton and South Kitsap Fire and Rescue has reached another milestone.
Fire district merger idea isn’t dead just yet
Voting to approve a property tax lid lift for the Kitsap Rural Library District this November might be easier to…
The Kitsap County commissioners will have to raise our taxes soon, but fortunately this increase is really small. Besides which,…
Now that Port Orchard is part of the Kitsap County Rural Library District, the city council needs to give South Kitsap voters reason to believe that approving a library district lid lift will likely result in a new library in the city.
After years of talking about the need to modernize the South Kitsap School District athletic facilities, a group organized as…
Kitsap County government will try its hand at producing a reality show in the coming weeks to make it possible for residents to see and hear some of the discussions that occur while writing the budget for 2011.
