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NEWS 94-room hotel to be built in Kitsap
Transit board OKs bus site near hospital BY CHRIS TUCKER CTUCKER@CENTRALKITSAPREPORTER.COM
SILVERDALE – The Kitsap Transit board gave their approval to move forward with a plan to build a Silverdale bus transfer station on a 2-acre plot of forested land to the south of the Harrison Medical Center in Silverdale. Previously, the board had been split between the location near Harrison and a different plot of land on the other side of town near Applebee’s restaurant. The decision is not final, however, and may change following an evaluation of the site. The board will have further input on the final choice later on. Board members briefly considered directing Kitsap Transit to simultaneously make plans for both sites, but the final decision was to focus
solely on the site near Harrison first, and then to look at the Applebee’s location if the first choice doesn’t work out. Kitsap Transit official said each site evaluation would cost around $100,000, so evaluating both sites simultaneously had they chosen to do so would have cost twice as much. The evaluations are required as part of a process that would allow the project to make use of federal funding. As part of those requirements, deciding on which site to use must be based on which site benefits the community the most, not on which site was cheaper, Kitsap Transit officials said. Kitsap Transit is seeking a new home for a transfer station because they have to move out of their current temporary location along SEE TRANSFER STATION, A9
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BLOCKED BRIDGE
OPINION BKAT should follow the rules
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Motorists make their way around the closed Bucklin Bridge in Silverdale on the morning of July 8. The bridge closed early morning July 1. The bridge project replaces two existing culverts with a 240-foot bridge span across the Clear Creek estuary and expands the existing roadway to four lanes. The work increases vehicular capacity, improves safety for pedestrians and bicyclists with new 5-foot bike lanes and 6-foot walkways and helps restore the Clear Creek estuary to its natural state. Learn more about the project at http:// www.bucklinhill.com.
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NEWS Dog swims across narrows
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NEWS Bremerton motorcyclist killed
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A new Kitsap Transit bus transfer station may be built in a forested plot of land across the street from the Harrison Medical Center Silverdale campus on Ridgetop Boulevard.
Seabeck man killed in fiery truck crash SEABECK – A Central Kitsap man was killed after the truck he was driving crashed into a tree and caught fire on a curvy section of Tahuyeh Lake Road NW on July 5. The Kitsap County Coroner’s Office identified the driver as Jeffrey Riley Thatcher, 31, of Central Kitsap.
Thatcher was declared deceased at the crash scene. There were no passengers. The crash occurred at 1:30 a.m. on the 2500 block of Tahuyeh Lake Road NW, south of the intersection with NW Holly Road. Engine and medic units from Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue and patrol
deputies and traffic investigators from the Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Office responded to the crash after multiple 911 calls came in. Sheriff ’s deputies located a 1999 Chevrolet 2500 pick-up truck in the ditch of the northbound lane. The truck was fully engulfed in fire and had
touched off a brush fire as well. CKFR extinguished the fires. Deputies discovered Thatcher’s body nearby. Thatcher was not using the vehicle’s seatbelt and was ejected from the cab of the truck. SEE SEABECK CRASH, A9
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