Now that the Port Orchard Marina features a park nearby to keep the kids entertained, it looks like the music under the gazebo for Kitsap County’s Concerts by the Bay will be — almost — all about the adults this summer.
Tomorrow night, the popular series launches its 2008 schedule with The New Blues Brothers, who describe themselves as “nine of the best musicians … with more than 200 years of entertaining experience” between them.
The Port of Manchester is in the second phase of a survey to determine usage patterns of the Manchester Boat Launch and the adjoining Pomeroy Park. The results will be used to decide how the facilities are used in the future.
A fire that broke out at Navy City Metals was quickly extinguished Monday afternoon, according to South Kitsap Fire and Rescue personnel on scene.
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, Port Orchard resident Ayvon Card criticizes Kitsap Transit’s recent decision to purchase two new foot ferries.
The Washington State Problem Gambling Web site, www.notagame.org, highlights the seriousness of youth gambling.
On the state baseball map, Silverdale is proving the middle ground between Bremerton’s Olympic College and Auburn’s Green River Community College.
Kitsap BlueJackets head coach Matt Acker, also the coach at Green River, and OC’s Ryan Parker, a first-year Jackets assistant, have gone from facing each other in opposing dugouts, to literally facing each other on opposite baselines, as the collegiate competitors have now teamed up with one goal in mind: Winning.
The Bremerton Chamber of Commerce has announced the schedule for its “Eggs and Issues” series of breakfast events, that features all candidates for specific offices.
The forums will be held at 7:30 a.m. every Tuesday from July 8 to October 14 at the Cloverleaf Sports Bar and Grill in East Bremerton.
The contest for the seat to be vacated by Rep. Pat Lantz (D-Gig Harbor) is heating up, with both candidates increasing fundraising efforts and spending much of their campaign time soliciting votes door to door.
The race between South Kitsap Commissioner Jan Angel, a Republican, and Democratic former Port Orchard Mayor Kim Abel, is thought to be the hottest local race this year.
“Streaky” probably would be the best word to describe the Kitsap BlueJackets play in the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League season.
Events happening throughout Kitsap County.
Visions of the apocalypse and paintings of liberty in Bremerton July 4, Bainbridge holds off its events until after Independence Day.
Quick — can you list the five rights named in the First Amendment?
A South Kitsap man who allegedly crashed his car into the side of a house in South Colby was arrested Tuesday while walking to a shopping center on Mile Hill Drive, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reported.
A look at Independence Day Events across the county, lighting the proverbial fuse for Fourth of July.
Free admission for old-time movie.
King Vidor’s 1928 silent film satire “Show People” reminds me of something like those “Scary Movie” flicks of today.
Those features (more like DVDs as they don’t even come out in theaters most of the time anymore) poke fun at the whole scary movie genre with spoofs on all the contemporary blockbusters and incredibly, oft intentionally, bad acting.
On the heels of what’s arguably Kingston’s grandest day of the year, comes something new.
Just up the street from the Little City by the Sea’s downtown core and Fourth of July events, the Independence Day celebration will be extended with a Saturday full of skate competition and concerts. From the group that basically brought you the Kingston Skate Park itself comes The Kingston Sk8 Rollick.
“In your article about the person in Port Angeles who had received medals and benefits not awarded, it seemed the fellow did receive a proper sentence,” writes Dennis Wojciak of Marysville.
Sound Off is a public forum. Articles are selected from letters to the editor or may be written specifically for this feature. Today, 23rd District Washington State Rep. Sherry Appleton (D-Poulsbo) anticipates what could be the major issues the state will be grappling with during next year’s legislative session.
