The costs keep growing, the funds keep shrinking and budget-makers are running out of options.
That’s the message Assistant Superintendent Terri Patton gave to the South Kitsap School District Board on Wednesday evening.
So Sen. Maria Cantwell and Rep. Jay Inslee have asked President Bush to create a task force to investigate possible fraud and price gouging by oil and gas companies.
It’s time to let you in on a project that failed. It failed because of its reliance on elected officials to carry the ball — and they dropped it, so you are the victims.
The extremely high prices you are paying for gasoline and diesel fuel, and the resulting increase in prices of food and practically everything else you buy, are the direct result.
All Jim Fairweather could do was shrug his shoulders.
Tim Matthes, who declared his candidacy for Jan Angel’s seat on the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners, kicked off his campaign Friday with an ice cream social at the Port Orchard National Guard Armory.
The new director of the Kitsap Economic Development Alliance (KEDA) reported for duty on Monday, immediately jumping on a treadmill of introductory meetings with local business and government leaders.
More than 50 people came out Saturday in the gray to try their luck at calling the most birds to the Port Orchard waterfront for the 20th annual Seagull Calling Festival.
An agreement between Kitsap County fire officials and developers wanting to add nearly 1,500 new homes to the McCormick Woods area is “90 percent” complete, said Kitsap County Fire Marshal David Lynam this week.
Come July, Dr. Thomas Mosby will have spent three years in the South Kitsap School District.
Kitsap County commemorated its 40th annual Law Day on Friday, with an address by John McKay, one of the eight former U.S. attorneys fired by former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2006 for reasons McKay believes were political.
he Washington State Ferries system reminds me of an old Woody Allen joke. Two ladies are vacationing in the Poconos, sitting at dinner.
“This food is terrible,” said one.
“Yes, it is awful,” the other agreed.
“But,” the first one brightened, “the portions are so large!”
In choosing among candidates for the legislature and county commissioner, on what issues should residents of South Kitsap focus their attention?
Several candidates have mentioned some issues they believe are important and have indicated that they want to hear from people in the community.
South Kitsap High School athletic director Ed Santos has reached outside the area to find the Wolves’ new girls basketball coach.
Santos announced Wednesday that Mark Lutzenhiser will replace Mike Allen, who resigned after eight seasons once the season wrapped up in February.
The Port Orchard Police Department is seeking nominations from the community again to help it choose a child it can crown “Chief for a Day.”
The program was started several years ago by the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission to celebrate the lives of children with serious illnesses who dreamed of law enforcement careers.
Back in 1908, the Ziegfield Follies opened in New York City, the Wright brothers registered flying machines at the United States Patent Office and the first Model T rolled off the Ford Motor Company assembly line in Detroit.
That same year, a Masonic Temple was built at 202 Sidney Ave.
Port Orchard is getting a little attention down in Tacoma thanks to the new bridge.
As cars head south on Interstate 5 by the Tacoma Dome, they pass a billboard picture of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge with the words “Close just got a little closer” and advertising a Quadrant Homes development adjacent to McCormick Woods.
A woman whose body was found in her burned-out home on Sidney Avenue early Wednesday was stabbed before the fire, according to the Kitsap County Coroner’s Office.
Last night after hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” I remembered how my siblings and I, who had watched the “Wizard of Oz” at least a dozen times, were in our 20s before we realized that the entire Oz sequence was in color.
Athletes often start preparing for their sports career from the time they can pick up a ball.
As if it weren’t frustrating enough having to pay $45 to $60 every time we fill up our car’s gas tank, now we
