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The Port of Brem
erton will be dis-
cussing on
Tuesday an
agreement
reached nearly three years ago with the
Suquamish Tribe after at least one Port
Orchard resident expressed concerns
about the nature of the pact.Steve Slaton, the port’s director of m
a-rine facilities, said that interest in the contract w
as sparked after a letter to
the editor written by M
ark Morgan w
as published.
“Based on m
y conversation with M
r. M
organ, he had run into a barrier during his w
alk on the (Port Orchard M
arina’s dock), and w
anted to know about the fish-
ing boats he saw,” Slaton said, explaining that w
hile there were tribal m
embers fish-
ing nearby, the boats were not the reason
for the barrier.“O
ne of the metal hinges on the public
dock broke, and we didn’t w
ant anyone to
be harmed by w
alking on it,” he said.H
owever, Slaton said he also explained
to M
organ the
agreement
the port
reached with the Suquam
ish Tribe in D
ecember of 2005, w
hich he described as m
itigation for a planned expansion of the B
remerton m
arina.
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ish will be addressed at A
ug. 26 meeting.
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Cody W
right from M
ilford, Utah, got a m
outh full of mud and a zero score after falling off Straw
berry Delight in the
Saddle Bronc R
iding competition W
ednesday night at the Kitsap C
ounty Stampede. T
he fair runs through Sunday.
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Expectations were turned on their head
in two K
itsap County political contests
during Tuesday night’s primary election,
as the perceived front-runners came in
third and were disqualified in their re-
spective races.Republican Tim
Matthes drew
the most
votes in the South Kitsap com
missioner’s
race, followed by D
emocrat C
harlotte G
arrido. M
onty Mahan, w
ho was the first to de-
clare for the seat and earned the endorse-m
ent of local mayors, cam
e in third (See related story, page A
3).
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The South Kitsap School D
istrict is a little closer to closing its $2.9 m
illion defi-cit for the upcom
ing school year.Terri Patton, assistant superintendent
for business and support services, said at W
ednesday’s school board meeting that
the district won’t replace five full-tim
e custodians w
ho left the district after the last school year.
She said that will save the district
$250,000.Patton said the deficit stem
s from un-
foreseen circumstances w
hen the district presented its last levy to voters in 2004.
She cited escalating teacher salaries
and pension rates along with inflation as
issues.In addition to the m
oney saved on cus-todians, Patton said the district w
ill dip into its reserve fund for $1.72 m
illion. She said that’s not all bad because the
district saved more than it anticipated in
its last fiscal year, which ends Aug. 31.
Patton said they also will save through
not filling other vacant positions in the district, and through cutting expenses on supplies.
The board unanimously adopted the
budget.Patton w
arned in previous meetings
that the “hard decisions” likely won’t end
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Tensions between tw
o Port Orchard
neighbors that erupted after one attempt-
ed to open a home business last year led
both wom
en to head down to the K
itsap C
ounty Courthouse M
onday and file re-straining orders against each other.
Shelia Cronan, 49, said she filed a re-
straining order against Am
ber Keehn
after returning home from
a camping trip
Aug. 17 and discovering pellets had been
shot in three of her home’s w
indows.
Cronan, w
ho lives on the 200 block of Flow
er Meadow
s Street in Port Orchard,
said she believed the attack was part of an
ongoing dispute with K
eehn, whom
she alleges has been running a hair salon out of her hom
e without a business license
and in defiance of a city “stop-work”
order.K
eehn, 30, said she filed for permission
from the city of Port O
rchard to operate a hair salon out of her hom
e on the 2300 block of Flow
er Avenue soon after pur-
chasing it last spring.C
ity D
evelopment
Director
James
Weaver confirm
ed that Keehn received
a conditional-use permit to operate a one-
chair hair salon out of her home, w
hich he described as “pretty innocuous” and som
ething that doesn’t typically reach “the level of intensive use,” as far as im
pacts on the neighborhood are con-cerned.
How
ever, since Novem
ber of 2007, C
ronan has filed multiple com
plaints with
the city regarding traffic, noise and other
activities she reported as stemm
ing from
Keehn’s attem
pts to operate a business out of her hom
e.W
eaver said following an A
pril 11 hear-ing w
ith the city’s Hearing Exam
iner, cer-tain conditions w
ere placed on Keehn’s
permit to m
itigate Cronan’s concerns be-
fore she would be allow
ed to operate her business.
“(Keehn) has addressed all but one of
those conditions, with the last being the
letter from the (K
itsap County) H
ealth D
epartment,” W
eaver said, explaining that K
eehn’s current sewer facilities are
Neighbor denies pellet gun shooting
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Best of the Blogs A7
Letters A8
Scene & Heard A9
911 Briefs A13
Obituaries A15
Calendar A17
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010 ■ Vol. 119, No. 48 ■ www.portorchardindependent.com ■ 50¢
By KAITLIN STROHSCHEINStaff Writer
California-based forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz has testified in high-profile trials related to the Columbine High School shooting, Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr.’s assassination and the Green River murders.
And on Wednesday, he testified in the Kitsap County Courthouse about Daniel Mustard’s sanity.
He calmly argued that a combina-tion of legal and illegal drugs brought
Mustard to the point of killing his neigh-bor, 87-year-old Ruby Andrews, in her Manchester home on April 5, 2009.
Mustard started smoking marijuana around ninth grade, Dietz said, and his parents noticed a sudden drop in his academic performance that year.
So Monica Mustard took her son to a pediatrician who tested him for learning disabilities.
His pediatrician diagnosed him with Attention Deficit Disorder and pre-scribed typical legal amphetamines.
“This happens all the time,” said Dietz. “Kids lie about their drug use and doctors
Doctor: ‘Drugs made Mustard murder’ Celebrity psychologist blames substance abuse, not insanity, for crime
SEE MURDER TRIAL, A14
By KAITLIN STROHSCHEINStaff Writer
As anchor tenants go, adding a 7-Eleven on Bay Street across from City Hall doesn’t exactly have the cachet of, say, a Nordstrom.
Then again, this isn’t your father’s 7-Eleven.
At the store’s grand opening cel-ebration on Tuesday, its managers claim that it’s not just new to the location — it’s also a new type of 7-Eleven.
And Port Orchard should prepare for more of these “new” 7-Elevens to
move into the region.The company plans to open stores
on Mile Hill Drive, Bay Street and Lund by the end of the year.
The stores will have a clean, friend-ly atmosphere, and they will feature fresh food and coffee said Tracy Weston-Ladnow, a 7-Eleven field rep-resentative.
“Up until now, the industry has pretty much lived and died by beer and cigarettes,” said Jeff Brown, a senior real estate representative for 7-Eleven’s North Pacific Division.
Bay Street 7-Eleven a prototye of store’s new business plan
Kaitlin Srohschein/Staff Photo
Kim Trog, who has managed 7-Eleven stores for 21 years, pours a Slurpee for 10-year-old Kelsey Casey.
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The Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Corrections Officers Association will host its seventh annual “Shop with a
Cop” Christmas program from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Poulsbo Walmart store.
The program is designed to help bring holiday joy to disadvantaged
children in the community, and help foster positive community relations between law enforcement and these youngsters.
Participating agencies include:
• Kitsap County Sheriff ’s deputies, corrections officers, support special-ists, evidence technicians, Citizens on Patrol volunteers and sheriff ’s admin-istration;
• Port Orchard, Bainbridge Island,
Kitsap County kids ready to Shop-with-a-Cop Low-income youngsters, law enforcement officials visiting WalMart
SEE SHOP WITH A COP, A28
Coffee and fresh food will be emphasized in addition to the franchise’s traditional fare
SEE NEW 7-ELEVEN, A28
Kaitlin Strohschein/Staff Photo
Park Dietz takes thestand in Daniel Mus-tard’s murder trial.