Bremerton News

CONTRIBUTED IMAGE Watercolor world "Remembering Tirol, an etching with watercolor, is one of the works by Irm Bruser on display June 4-29 in a show titled "Time Marches On" at the Collective Visions Art Gallery," 331 Pacific Ave.

For the Kitsap Sun Wyatt Weber, 12, leads Monsanto protesters up Madison Avenue on Bainbridge Island.

For Republicans this year's 26th Legislative District race is not just a chance to widen the party gap in the state Senate, it's a testing ground for 2014.

A Kitsap County jury decided the maker of a surgical robot was not to blame for a botched prostate operation on a Bremerton man.

This year, the Central Kitsap area and Bremerton have planned events that will help fill the long weekend with reflection and fun.

Crowds lined up along the sidewalks of Front Street in Poulsbo to cheer on the participants of the 5-mile and 1-mile runs during the 36th annual Viking Fest Road Race May 18.

Clallam Transit has approved a contract with its next general manager. Wendy Clark-Getzin, capital development director for Kitsap Transit in Bremerton, will replace retiring Clallam Transit System General Manager Terry Weed on July 1. She will earn $98,000 per year under a three-year agreement that Clallam Transit board members approved ... (more)

Arne Bakker is settling in after taking over as general manager of the Kitsap Conference Center a couple of weeks ago.

Steve Corcoran of Port Orchard bows during the Tolling of the Boats ceremony on Thursday at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport.

A Mason County Fire District medic unit returning from an emergency call was struck head-on by a car Thursday on the 10000 block of Northshore Road in Tahuya, Fire Chief Beau Bakken reported.

A retired Navy senior chief petty officer. A former airline pilot who has become a local tourism booster.

The marquee race will pit Mayor Patty Lent against political newcomer Todd Best.

Olympic Cinemas has joined the "Digital Cinema" age with the installation of four all-new digital cinema and Dolby Surround systems at the theater located at 1520 NE Riddell Road in East Bremerton.

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Time: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; Kitsap Car Cruz, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; Seagull Calling Contest, 2 p.m. Sunday, registration 1 p.m. Location: Bremerton Marina & Boardwalk, Second Street and Washington Avenue, Bremerton; and Port Orchard Boardwalk/Waterfront Marina Park, Bay Street and Harrison Avenue, Port Orchard.

KITSAP TRANSIT K.T. No. 13-467 Request For Proposals Finance Software System Replacement Project Kitsap Transit, the public transportation provider in Kitsap County, WA is requesting responses from software and implementation service vendors for finance software and implementation services to replace an existing system.

Special law enforcement patrols will focus on another important traffic safety concern - distracted drivers who are texting and talking on their cell phones begining today.

Bremerton: Harborside Building Conference Room, 60 Washington Ave., second floor, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, and an open house noon-3 p.m. June 1. Comments collected at the meetings will be forwarded to Kitsap Transit's board of commissioners before a July public hearing.

A 24-year-old Bremerton man was charged with malicious mischief and second-degree burglary in connection with a March 31 burglary at the Bremerton Sizzler restaurant and the smashing of a nearby KeyBank ATM.

Todd Best did not wait until the last minute to make the Bremerton mayor election a race, but he came pretty close.