The reigns of the Bremerton-Kitsap Airporter will soon be handed to the 88-year-old founder Richard Asche’s middle daughter, Lynne Koll.
“One guy told me, ‘You guys are the best thing to happen to Kitsap County since sliced bread and canned peaches.’ And I thought that was a pretty good idea of our operation,” Asche said.
To date, the Airporter has served almost 4.7 million people since 1979. “That’s half the population of the state of Washington, so business is picking up. We’re carrying more people every week,” Asche said. During the first week in August, they averaged 356 passengers a day…