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Naval Avenue Early Learning Center Principal John Welsh chats with second-grader Elaina Tacey in Liza Piper's Montessori class. The first through third grade Montessori at Naval Avenue

Solving middle school problems in elementary school –...

By Lynsi Burton • September 14, 2010 9:57 pm

During his 16 years as a middle school special education teacher, John Welsh lamented that by the time students got to him, it was almost too late.
Teachers were overwhelmed by the number of students not meeting basic education requirements and couldn’t give each child the attention necessary to catch them up.
“It used to be very frustrating to see interventions that needed to happen in middle school that I see every day in elementary school,” said Welsh, now principal at Naval Avenue Early Learning Center. “We run out of resources to do the special education because there’s just too many kids to address.”
For this reason Welsh feels his work at a school specializing in early education is anticipating the problems today that middle school students will face tomorrow.
Now he’ll be working on a larger stage, helping more students. Welsh was appointed this summer to the National Associ

Longer parking, extra landlord costs on Bremerton City Council agenda

Longer parking, extra landlord costs on Bremerton City...

By Lynsi Burton • September 10, 2010 8:12 pm

Longer parking, extra landlord costs on Bremerton City Council agenda
Two measures expected to be decided by the Bremerton City Council Wednesday could lead to longer downtown parking times and new licensing requirements for landlords.

Bangor resident Hope Fenton

Down on the farm – Local farmers lament...

By Lynsi Burton • September 9, 2010 8:56 pm

Lee Wayman of Seabeck laughed at the thought of his bad luck Tuesday as he peddled lavender and herbs at the Silverdale Farmers Market.
This is Wayman’s first year taking his Secret Garden stand to farmers markets and he admits it was a tough year to start. With unusually cold temperatures this spring and

Bremerton resident Adam Metcalf looks over the potatoes Sept. 2 at the Silverdale-based Pheasant Fields Farm stand at the Bremerton Farmers Market with his son

Down on the farm – Local farmers lament...

By Lynsi Burton • September 9, 2010 8:52 pm

Lee Wayman of Seabeck laughed at the thought of his bad luck Tuesday as he peddled lavender and herbs at the Silverdale Farmers Market.
This is Wayman’s first year taking his Secret Garden stand to farmers markets and he admits it was a tough year to start. With unusually cold temperatures this spring and summer, he has suffered with the rest of the vendors, losing ent

Head of Silverdale Chamber out after nine months

Head of Silverdale Chamber out after nine months

By Lynsi Burton • September 8, 2010 6:59 pm

After nine months on the job, Michael Broome, executive director of the Silverdale Chamber of Commerce, is no longer with the chamber.
An office administrator at the chamber confirmed Broome’s departure Wednesday afternoon. When Broome was

Aspiring elementary teachers compete for fewer jobs in Bremerton and Central Kitsap

Aspiring elementary teachers compete for fewer jobs in...

By Lynsi Burton • September 7, 2010 10:14 pm

When Joe Sarkis decided to get an elementary teaching degree it was a leap of faith in an effort to find a more fulfilling career.
As a former printer and currently a real estate agent in Port Orchard, Sarkis, 57, thought his status as a male in a female-dominated field would increase his chances of finding a job.
Having failed to find full-time work in the two years sinc

Murray makes campaign stop in Navy Yard City

Murray makes campaign stop in Navy Yard City

By Lynsi Burton • September 3, 2010 7:20 pm

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray met with a handful of veterans in Navy Yard City Aug. 26 to pitch the veteran…

Despite objections, YMCA takes over Bremerton city pool

Despite objections, YMCA takes over Bremerton city pool

By Lynsi Burton • September 2, 2010 7:56 pm

Bremerton’s Glenn Jarstad Aquatic Center is officially in YMCA hands after the City Council’s approval at Wednesday’s meeting.
The City Council voted 7-2 to turn over the management of the city-owned Jarstad pool to the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap

Volunteers Tex Lewis and Doug Ludwig help Olympic College Running Start student Daniel Hnatovic install hand railings Wednesday on a new Clear Creek Trail bridge.

Olympic College engineering students building bridges at home

By Lynsi Burton • September 2, 2010 5:53 pm

When members of Olympic College’s Engineers Without Borders completed a 50-foot bridge on the north end of the Clear Creek Trail this week, it was a sign of bigger things to come for the budding engineering community at the school.

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A renovated place to relax and take in...

By Lynsi Burton • August 27, 2010 8:17 pm

The East Bremerton Rotary Club held its grand opening ceremony for the renovated Bachmann Park gazebo in Manette Wednesday morning. The 60-year-old gazebo, which had been dilapidated and condemned for the last two-and-a-half years, was refurbished a couple months ago by the Rotary Club using $20,000 of donated materials and labo

Developer Tim Ryan stands in his half-vacant building in downtown Bremerton. Although some developers and government officials have been saying for years Bremerton is on the verge of booming

Downtown Bremerton: The revival that wasn’t

By Lynsi Burton • August 27, 2010 8:11 pm

Tim Ryan bought three buildings along Pacific Avenue in Bremerton — one on Sixth Street, Fifth Street and First Street — imagining great possibilities, seeing himself as a contributor to a more vibrant downtown district with attractions and conveniences.
“I was all excited. Every-thing was ready to go,” said Ryan, CEO of Tim Ryan Construction. “That was 18 years ago.”

Bremerton to finalize city pool’s transfer to YMCA

Bremerton to finalize city pool’s transfer to YMCA

By Lynsi Burton • August 20, 2010 4:13 pm

An agreement between the City of Bremerton and the Kitsap Family YMCA will hand management of the Glenn Jarstad Aquatic Center to the club for the next 10 years, pending City Council approval.

Cowboys in Pink? – Kitsap Fair fundraiser highlights women’s health.

Cowboys in Pink? – Kitsap Fair fundraiser highlights...

By Lynsi Burton • August 20, 2010 6:22 pm

When breast cancer survivor Linda Foutch underwent emergency surgery in April and discovered she had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she thought she would have to stop her work in breast cancer advocacy.
But, despite the chemotherapy treatments she still receives, her doctor encouraged her to continue her work, so she could inspire other women living with cancer.
That’s why Foutch, of Bremerton

Kitsap Patriots Tea Party organizers estimated about 300 people came to hear conservative speakers and candidates at the group’s potluck Aug. 13 at the Silverdale Waterfront Park. It was the Kitsap Tea Party’s first public event.

Kitsap conservatives turn out for the (tea) party

By Lynsi Burton • August 20, 2010 6:10 pm

Jim Ullrich of Chico thinks the U.S. has been headed in the wrong direction for the last 50 years, since prayer was outlawed from public schools. He wants fiscally conservative and pro-life candidates in office and wants the state and federal governments to stop “redistributing wealth.”

Bremerton Fire Department paramedics Sam Hernandez and Missy Griffith embarked on separate humanitarian trips to Haiti this year.

Bremerton paramedics changed by work in Haiti

By Lynsi Burton • August 20, 2010 6:08 pm

Sam Hernandez served in the Air Force and Army and has been a paramedic for 20 years. He isn’t shocked by much. But he came back from Haiti in May as a changed man.
“It will take awhile for me to think like an American again,” he told his girlfriend and son, finding himself impatient with complaints that paled in comparison to the problems in the earthquake-ravaged country.

CKSD invites 13 teachers back to the classroom

CKSD invites 13 teachers back to the classroom

By Lynsi Burton • August 13, 2010 7:24 pm

The Central Kitsap School District recalled 13 teachers last month, bringing back educators who in April thought they lost their jobs.

Physical education restored in Bremerton schools, at least for one year

Physical education restored in Bremerton schools, at least...

By Lynsi Burton • August 13, 2010 7:22 pm

Full-time physical education will be restored this year at the Bremerton School District, but may fall prey to budget cuts again the following year.

Farm manager Scott Hall overlooks the new crops planted at the Petersen Farm in Silverdale.

The ‘best last chance’ for Central Kitsap farming

By Lynsi Burton • August 13, 2010 6:44 pm

Dorothy Lind remembers jumping in the haystacks and her brother and cousin kissing the dairy cows goodnight at her Uncle Gerry’s farm in Silverdale.

Lynsi Burton/staff photo Washington Youth Academy principal and teacher Lynn Caddell

Training for a better future in Bremerton

By Lynsi Burton • August 13, 2010 6:37 pm

The 23 teenage boys marching into Lynn Caddell’s U.S. history class, all with identical uniforms and backpacks, were perhaps not meant to succeed in school in the eyes of some.
They are high school drop-outs, or near drop-outs, but on Tuesday, as they analyzed the Bill of Rights and delved into the archaic language, they showed an interest they may have never shown in school before.

Bremerton chicken signatures invalid, prompting a do-over on hen legalization initiative

Bremerton chicken signatures invalid, prompting a do-over on...

By Lynsi Burton • August 10, 2010 1:21 am

Almost 1300 signatures gathered in an effort to legalize backyard hens in Bremerton are invalid due to a procedural oversight, forcing chicken proponents to start from scratch.
The signatures, collected since April, did not include the date of signing with each name – an item required by the Revised Code of Washington for citizens’ initiatives such as the one circulated by the urban hen advocates.

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