Port Orchard Independent, October 30, 2015

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Down to the wire: election ballots due Nov. 3 By CHARLIE BERMANT

IN THIS INSIDE: ISSUE:

Staff Writer

Expectations were turned on their head

The general-election countdown has begun for South Kitsap voters, who have until 8 p.m. Nov. 3, to get their election-ballot envelopes postmarked. The campaign drama in Port Orchard should be enough impetus to compel citizens to find that elusive stamp and drop their ballot envelope in the mail. Headlining the election here is the showdown between incumbent Tim Matthes and his challenger, councilman Rob Putaansuu, in a spirited fight to become mayor. The candidates have been engaged in a sometimes contentious battle headlined by issues about campaign contributions from the Kitsap Association of

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in two Kitsap County political contests Realtors, business growth during and Tuesday night’s primary election, downtown land-useasplanning. the perceived front-runners came in The City Councilthird racesand alsowere disqualified in their reraces. have been testy. Johnspective Clauson Republican Tim Matthes drew the most and Cindy Lucarellivotes are runin the South Kitsap commissioner’s race,are followed ning for reelection and fac- by Democrat Charlotte ing challengers NickGarrido. Whittleton Monty Mahan, who was the first to deand Marcus Lane, respectively. Clancy Donlintheisendorserunclare for the seat and earned ning against a late-comer the mayors, race, write-in ment oftolocal came incandidate third (See story, page A3). Bill Christensen, forrelated the City Council At-Large position. South Kitsap School District directors Patty SEE UPSETS, PAGE A2 Henderson and Greg Wall are running unopposed for

the little monsters around you

OPINION:

Little ghouls and goblins (and a princess or two) line up behind a string of pumpkins at the Port Orchard Public Market’s Pumpkin Palooza last year. Another Halloween blowout at the Public Market is set for 4-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. A costume contest Jesse Beals/Staff Photo will be staged inside the Cody Wright from Milford, Utah, got a mouthmarket full of mud zero score after falling off Strawberry Delight in the andand outa of the Saddle Bronc Riding competition Wednesday night at the Kitsap County Stampede. The fair runs through Sunday. rain. Matt Carter, owner of Carter’s Chocolates, said a pumpkin carving Inside contest also will be judged A Section that day. At the same time Editorial A4 Halloween Day, Bay Street Robert Meadows A4 Scene & Heard A5 will offerreport trick▼ merchants Bothitems sides feeling harassed in rift Sports A6 or-treat to costumed Legal Notices A7 shot in three of her home’s windows. By kids. JUSTINE FREDERIKSEN Mary Colborn A7 Photo by Matt Carter Staff Writer

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LETTERS:

Readers sound off about election. A6, 7

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reelection. District 2 incumbent Keith Garton is facing

competitor Brian Lightbody in the general election. TIM CHARLOTTE MATTHES GARRIDO Kitsap County Fire District 7 is asking citizens to

approve Proposition 1, a $4.9 million bond measure, to fund fire equipment and apparatus upgrades. In a Port of Bremerton race for commissioner, Cary Bozeman and John R. Poppe will face off for the District 1 seat. There also are races for ports of Manchester and Waterman commissioner seats, as well as for positions on the WestBRUCE Sound Utility and Manchester JEANETTE DALTON DANIELSON Water district boards.

Port Orchard 4DIPPM EJTUSJDU MPPLT man takes off UP CBMBODF JUT CPPLT with police in pursuit

Custodians won’t be replaced, $1.72 million will be taken from reserve fund. A Port Orchard driver had

By CHRIS CHANCELLOR Staff Writer

The South Kitsap School District is a little closer to closing its $2.9 million deficit for the upcoming school year. Terri Patton, assistant superintendent for business and support services, said at Wednesday’s school board meeting that the district won’t replace five full-time custodians who left the district after the last school year. She said that will save the district $250,000. Patton said the deficit stems from unforeseen circumstances when the district presented its last levy to voters in 2004. She cited escalating teacher salaries

and pension rates along withmore inflation as immediate concerns issues. than receiving a ticket for not In addition to the money saved on cuswearing seat belts Oct. 25. todians, Patton said the district will dip into its reserve fund for $1.72 million. A Washington state trooper She said that’s not all bad attempted because the to pull over the district saved more than it anticipated in its last fiscal year, which endsman Aug.for 31. a seat-belt violation on Sedgwick Patton said they also will save through and Sidney when not filling other vacant positions in the he sped from the scene and district, and through cutting expenses careened down Glenwood on supplies. The board unanimously Road. adoptedAfter the using the center budget. lane to pass drivers at 60 Patton warned in previous meetings miles per hour, the suspect’s that the “hard decisions” likely won’t end

Ford Ranger left the road and

smashed through a south-facSEE SCHOOL, PAGE A2

ing fence at Sidney Glen Elementary. When his vehicle got lodged on a tree stump, the man took off on foot. That’s where from his situation got even activities she reported as stemming messy. He apparently attempts to operatemore a business over home business. Keehn’s out of her home. tossed a tool bag he’d been carWeaver said following an April 11 hearchasing it last spring. rying under a school building. City Development Director James ing with the city’s Hearing Examiner, cerCronan, who lives on the 200 block of the bag was a loaded on Keehn’s Flower Meadows Street in Port Orchard, Weaver confirmed that Keehn received tain conditions were placedInside be- man, who as a Tensions between two Port Orchard said she believed the attack was part of an a conditional-use permit to operate a one- permit to mitigate Cronan’s concerns pistol. The operateisher neighbors that erupted after one attempt- ongoing dispute with Keehn, whom she chair hair salon out of her home, which fore she would be allowed tofelon, prohibited from owned to open a home business last year led alleges has been running a hair salon out he described as “pretty innocuous” and business. ceremony at 2 p.m. Nov. 6. Pedestrian Pathway Project. ingbuta one gun.ofLaw-enforcement “(Keehn) has addressed all her home without a business license something that doesn’t typically reach both women to head down to the Kitsap Staffofreport The City PortofOrchard was com- with the last officers dispatched a police those conditions, being the “theoflevel intensive use,”The as phase far as 4 work andOrchard’ in defiance a city “stop-work” County Courthouse Monday and file re- Port s newof civic letterConstruction from the (Kitsap County) Health on the neighborhood are conorder. straining orders against each other. is invitingimpacts the public to attend pleted by Zemek dog, who later found the fugilandmark — 30, a pedestrian/ Department,” Keehn, said she filed for permission Shelia Cronan, 49, said she filed a rethe eventcerned. at Etta Turner Park. under a $396,460 contract.Weaver said, explaining neararethe scene. facilities However, since November of 2007, that Keehn’s current sewer tive from the city of Port Orchard to operate bicycle bridge over Blackjack straining order against Amber Keehn The ceremony The full project was funded The combative 21-year-old Cronan hassignifies filed multiple complaints with a hair salon out ofits her home on the 2300 after returning home from a camping trip Creek — will make public PAGE A2 completion of noisewith money fromSEE cityNEIGHBORS, and citysegment regarding4traffic, and other pur- the of Aug. 17 and discovering pellets had been block of Flower Avenue soon after debut with a ribbon-cutting PURSUIT, SEE A2 the 12-segment Bay Street state sources. SOUTH KITSAP’S SOURCE FOR LOCAL NEWS AND INFORMATION SINCE 1890

Neighbor denies pellet gun shooting

Pathway bridge ribbon-cutting event is Nov. 6

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