For most Americans, a penny at the gas pump has vivid significance but billions of dollars create a meaningless blur. Increasingly, we are unable to fathom the really big numbers in our modern world, a condition known as innumeracy.
Transparency, another city hall staple promised by newly elected mayor Tim Matthes, went by the way side last week. For a few hours, Matthes ordered at least three department heads to not provide information to the Port Orchard Independent.
The Kitsap County Department of Community Development, located in Port Orchard, received an upgraded SMARTGov permitting system. The upgraded system went live May 7.
The shoreline master program public hearings scheduled before the Kitsap County Planning Commission were postponed. The meeting, originally scheduled for May 1, is now scheduled for June 5 at 6 p.m. in the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners’ chambers, at 619 Division St., Port Orchard.
The 10 acres surrounding the Kitsap Saddle Club in South Kitsap harken to the past. A dusty horse corral. Cut grass that smells perfectly of summer. Trails and woods.
When the rains slow down and the lawn is not so wet and soggy, it is time to get your lawn aerated. Aerating is the preferred means of putting holes in the turf. There are many ways but the easiest is renting a machine.