Check out the list of stories at the Bremerton community page and you’ll see a whole host of recent events in Bremerton.
My mug is at the top of the page, but I only wrote one of the stories. That just demonstrates how diverse the interests are in this town.
Philippe Boucher on Bainbridge Island suggests a blog like this could be a snapshot of the community, demonstrating the personality of Bremerton.
So I thought I’d mention a few of things
I saw driving and walking around town today.
A church on Trenton finally removed the grammatical error on its readerboard. If you were trying to torture a journalist, it worked.
Jason Soriano, grandson of Bremerton’s Lou and Joan Soriano, won the Society of Professional Journalists 2005 Mark of Excellence Award and the Milwaukee Press Club Award for work he’s done as a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Thursday’s edition continues more news about the city’s efforts to find a new place for a court. The one place we were able to confirm is Bremerton Housing Authority property between Seventh and Eighth Streets between Warren and Park Avenues.
The latest setback with the Puget Sound Energy site 
made the city consider that it’sl likely
it will have to find a place to run the court temporarily before it
moves into whatever property it ends up buying. Roger Lubovich,
city attorney, said the city may be out of the current court
building (the former city hall) before the new building is
ready.
Kitsap Transit is going to put another measure on the ballot to see if local voters will agree to a sales tax increase to help pay for passenger ferry service to Seattle.
The agency’s board believes voters will be more inclined to approve the measure this time, since private ventures have failed or struggled and the state has definitively left the business.
Expect to see the ballot measure in early 2007.
Funds are in place for two years
operating and buildings for
Bremerton’s first Boys & Girls Club.
A charity event helped the group raise close to $300,000 Saturday.
The Department of Commerce’s Sandy Baruah
made clear that the federal goverment’s $3 million investment into
the port is based on the government’s belief that the investment will pay off in the long
run.
The Port of Bremerton is
getting a check for $3 million Monday at an
event that was supposed to be a surprise.
No one told the folks at the U.S. Department of Commerce, however, and by Thursday the secret was out.
Thursday’s newspaper contains two counts
of naughtiness, with one chance for people to redeem themselves, if
they’re out of jail or something.
First off, people living in a shed on a Navy Yard City property may have let their candles get out of hand and burned the shed down. There is more to this story, a bit of string for later, but first let’s get into the other news.
Westsound Bank had been
planning for some time to move its downtown headquarters four
blocks.
The building that was once home to US Bank and considered for Bremerton police headquarters will now be the main office for the young bank that’s growing quickly. Dave Johnson, seen on the right, revealed his plans Wednesday.
