Southworth News

The Washington State Ferries will operate on a winter schedule beginning Sunday through March 27.

Carol Donnelly quit her job at the bank this week. "They were really great people," she said.

With Puget Sound Naval Shipyard employees working a half day on Christmas Eve, Kitsap Transit is shifting its take-home service to midday.

Washington State Ferries is recommending a reservation system for all of Kitsap County's ferry terminals - and all but four of the rest.

Washington State Ferries is out with its winter schedule notes, though the schedule itself doesn't kick in till two days after New Year's Day.

State ferries will be running on Thanksgiving, but not Kitsap Transit's buses, vans and boats.

In the long-range plan he presented to the Kitsap Transit Board of Directors Tuesday, Executive Director Richard Hayes envisions creating a separate transit agency that will focus on passenger-only ferries and Bus Rapid Transit .

Three years of work will come one step closer to success Tuesday when the Bremerton School District's Facilities Naming Committee considers a proposal to name the gym and the basketball court at Bremerton High School after two beloved coaches.

The Washington State Department of Transportation Ferries Division is inviting the public to a series of meetings in ferry-served communities Nov.

A mother and daughter from South Kitsap suffered serious injuries Saturday in a single-car accident on Southworth Drive.

Washington State Ferries has scheduled a series of fall community meetings beginning Wednesday in Southworth.

The Washington State Legislature probably wona t provide new support for the Washington State Ferries during its upcoming session, so ferry advocates are targeting 2011 as the time when it will receive significant new funding, according to information presented to the Port Orchard City Council on Tuesday.

South Kitsap YAHOO! Code 911 SOUTH KITSAP - Kitsap County prosecutors have charged a Southworth man with second-degree manslaughter in the alcohol overdose death of a 15-year-old girl in April, according to documents filed in Kitsap County Superior Court.

Two people were taken to Tacoma General Hospital early Friday morning after the car they were in plunged off an embankment and landed in water 30 feet from the shore near Southworth.

Riders aboard the Vashon Island passenger ferry will find a new boat and higher fares when King County officially takes over the service later this month.

Robert Moinette of Hoppet Design & Construction looks out on the deck of a condo at The Anchors at Manchester on Tuesday.

Kitsap Sun staff Originally published 09:53 a.m., September 11, 2009 Updated 09:53 a.m., September 11, 2009 SOUTH KITSAP - The Southworth-Vashon Island-Fauntleroy ferry route has lost the Tillikum and is operating on a two-boat schedule.

The Washington State Patrol hopes that none of them happen here, and is asking that people help by wearing seat belts, not drinking and driving, and reporting those who do.

It's time to pull up roots and say farewell to all of the friends and acquaintances I've had the pleasure of working with these past 10 years.

YAHOO! It's time to do some preparatory salmon fishing in advance of this weekend's annual Kitsap Poggie Sinclair Inlet Chinook Salmon Derby.