Response to my suggestion that we return to the 55-mph national speed limit we had from 1974 to 1995 to conserve gasoline was practically nil, so I was pleased to hear over the radio that Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) had written Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman about the same thing.
Kitsap Arts and Crafts hosts its
Old time legacy survives at the third Bainbridge Bluegrass festival, July 26.
I was driving into work one day last week when I noticed a woman in a Hummer swerving all over the road, nearly taking out traffic in the incoming lane.
Dunce hats to the Port Orchard City Council. I suppose with the mentality of, “It’s not my money,” they feel…
I am a junior officer in the U.S. military and have been trained on the issues of conflict of interest…
It’s hard to see Port Orchard’s proposed annexation of McCormick Woods as anything but a win for both the residents of that community and for Port Orchard.
t Violet set to replace Buttercup as KRL’s rolling library vehicle.
t Agency’s former chief deputy set to assume duties.
3-on-3 tourney
t Former two-time state wrestling champion will continue his career at Boise State.
The Washington State Patrol has begun running criminal checks on the license plate numbers of all vehicles boarding ferries on Bainbridge and at Seattle’s Colman Dock, as it tests a new security system.
Starting Friday and then for the next two years, no one but those responding to emergencies will be able to drive directly from Burley-Olalla Road to State Route 16.
A short, skinny stretch of road through Harper that the county has been trying to widen for years will remain narrow for now, as another appeal filed by several residents of Southworth Drive is considered.
Organizers of the new environmentally thought-provoking Great Peninsula Future Festival have devised a plan that could possibly provoke solutions to some of the world’s greatest crises.
They’re hoping festival-goers will come for a party and leave with a life-changing education. And they’re expecting them in the thousands throughout the coming weekend, Aug. 2-3, in the festival-friendly town of Port Gamble.
For stargazers and solar system admirers, right now is the best time to view the planet Jupiter in the night sky.
Though you wouldn’t think it’d be that difficult, given that it’s the largest planet in the solar system, giant red spot and all, it’s best viewed currently slowly receding from opposition — a term meaning that the planet is directly opposite from the sun as seen on Earth.
Every year, Ford Mustang owners from Kitsap and beyond gather on the Port Orchard waterfront for a beauty pageant on the auto scale. It’s the annual Mustangs on the Waterfront car show.
Port Orchard will host a special benefit screening of “Saturday Night Fever,” tonight, 31 years after the popular film brought the disco craze into theaters across the country.
A 19-year-old man was apparently knocked unconscious earlier this month when a 20-year-old South Kitsap man punched him in the face after claiming he was missing $10, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reported.
