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Incumbent Hansen takes on 2 challengers for state senate
Editor’s note: Candidates for the primary election were allowed up to 250 words each to let our readers know why they should vote for them. Here are the responses from those running for the state senate in the 23rd Legislative District, which represents northern Kitsap County and Bainbridge Island.
Bail $500K in vehicular homicide case
A 24-year-old Kingston man was in Kitsap County Superior Court July 9 arrested on a warrant and charged with vehicular homicide after driving with three times the legal amount of alcohol in his sytem. Bail was $500,000. If convicted he faces life in prison and a $50,000 fine. Court records...
Remodeling awards given to firms all over Kitsap
The Kitsap Building Association has announced that there are several local winners of the Washington 2024 Excellence in Remodeling Awards. The recent event celebrated the best in remodeling craftsmanship, innovation and design statewide. Local winners include:. • Steve Bodle, Back Forty Repairs LLC in Bremerton: Awarded for his Basement/ADU Remodel...
Kitsap Transit awarded $17 million to upgrade aging facility
Kitsap Transit, transporting passengers through Kitsap Fast Ferries and its bus system, has long asked the government for a grant so that it can build a new facility and purchase new zero-emission buses. Now, just as the Fourth of July holiday was celebrated across the state, the transit agency was...
Bicyclist struck by car and killed Thursday in South Kitsap
This story was edited to include additional details A 69-year-old man from South Kitsap was killed after he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle on Thursday. The man was hit by the passenger side of a vehicle driven by a 17-year-old girl around 10:50 a.m. on SW Lake Flora near the...
County dump expecting long lines due to compactor repair
Kitsap Public Works is asking residents to postpone their dump runs to all county waste facilities until further notice, as they make repairs to the garbage compactor at the Olympic View Transfer Station in Bremerton. The compactor at the transfer station along Highway 3 at the Port of Bremerton's industrial...
Sheriff: Bicyclist, 70, killed after being struck by car in SK
A 70-year-old man was killed July 4 when he was struck by a vehicle while riding a bicycle in South Kitsap. The incident happened around 10:50 a.m. on SW Lake Flora near Hidden Acres Place SW, a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post states. The victim, an SK resident, died at the scene.
Historian Roosevelt Smith remembered for passion, care for community
Roosevelt Smith has long collected and shared the history of the Black experience, in America and specifically in Kitsap County. Now, his name will be remembered as a pioneer like those before him. Smith, a historian who chronicled the pioneers of Kitsap's Black community and aired the country's history of...
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