A 38-year-old Port Orchard man was found sleeping naked Sunday in a Bremerton mobile home park office after ransacking the building looking for his one true love.
With aging equipment and not enough space to handle patient volume, doctors and nurses specializing in heart and vascular medicine at Harrison Medical Center found themselves stuck.
With new construction lagging, construction worker Matt Stefnik of Seabeck found himself unemployed this year, the construction company he worked for having gone bankrupt. So in the spring, he decided to get trained in the one sector of the construction industry that is actually growing: green building.
Stefnik enrolled in Olympic College
A few bed spreads and display accessories may be still missing, but the Arnold’s Home Furnishings store is back at its Kitsap Way location, having opened Monday to customers.
The store was rebuilt after being destroyed in an arson last summer set by a Port Orchard
Parks will take the biggest hit in Bremerton’s amended 2010 budget passed Wednesday, resulting in reduced park maintenance and, to the chagrin of swimmers at the City Council meeting, the elimination of dollars for the Glenn Jarstad Aquatic Center.
The Bremerton City Council voted to cut the city’s gambling tax in half Wednesday in the hopes that more casinos will be able to do business in the city.
Veda Strong of Bremerton couldn’t walk too well until about two weeks ago.
With a bad back and aching legs, her doctor advised that she exercise in the water. Now, after a couple weeks of swimming, she is able to walk all over Bremerton, campaigning to save the city pool that got her back on her feet.
Bremerton Financial Services Director Barbara Stephenson announced her retirement Monday after a five-month tenure in the position.
Having finished updating the 2010 budget for the city, which will be considered by the City Council July 7, Stephenson’s last day will be July 2.
When Heidi and Lowell Yoxsimer set out to open a new restaurant on the corner of Bremerton’s 15th Street and…
When Heidi and Lowell Yoxsimer set out to open a new restaurant on the corner of Bremerton’s 15th Street and Wycoff Avenue, some didn’t think they had a chance.
“A lot of people told us, ‘You’re crazy’ for opening on this block,” Lowell Yoxsimer said, noting the “ghetto” reputation of the west Bremerton neighborhood.
Leticia Ward waited 15 years and traveled 2,000 miles for a special reunion — with a mushroom burger.
Ward enjoyed her Noah’s Ark mushroom burger for the second day in a row Tuesday, with her husband and son from Austin, Texas in tow.
“I just love the mushroom burger,” said Ward, who lived in Bremerton 15 years ago. “It’s so good.”
Kate Reid, co-owner of Kate’s Jersey Subs and Righteous Pie in Manette, says that her deli offers what few others in Kitsap do.
“People can come in and get the East Coast style of food with a West Coast attitude,” she said, describing her sloppy East Coast-style sandwiches made custom to order.
That uniqueness is noted by customers.
When John Head was making his way through college, he switched schools, switched majors and was running out of money — a common college tale.
As a drummer studying jazz at Texas State University, he noticed that some of the most “smokin’” players were ex-Navy musicians, returning to school to finish their degrees. It was then that he learned about a new route into a music career.
Judy Parr, owner of Tease Boutique and Salon across from the Manette Bridge, will miss the iconic 80-year-old structure, a classic steel bridge to be replaced by a more generic concrete bridge akin to the Warren Avenue Bridge.
More than that, she is dreading the all-day noise of the construction, something that will be “super annoying” to her clients.
“It’s a little piece of history that’s going to be gone,” she said, adding that the new bridge will be a “concrete eyesore.”
Urban farmer Jean Schanen of Bremerton fears this will be “the summer that never was.”
Under rainy skies Tuesday, she lamented the damage this year’s cold and rain have leveled on her crops at Start Now Gardens on Bloomington Avenue.
Most of her cucumbers died and must be replanted. Her okra was a bust. Her berries are smaller with less flavor and her tomatoes are not as robust as they should be. Mainly, her crops are slow to mature. Since she and her husband Glenn Huff moved to Bremerton in 2003 from Eau Claire, Wis., it’s the worst summer they’ve had.
“Things just happen and you have to respond and react and do the best you can,” Schanen said.
Urban farmer Jean Schanen of Bremerton fears this will be “the summer that never was.”
Under rainy skies Tuesday, she lamented the damage this year’s cold and rain have leveled on her crops at Start Now Gardens on Bloomington Avenue.
Most of her cucumbers died and must be replanted. Her okra was a bust. Her berries are smaller with less flavor and her tomatoes are not as robust as they should be. Mainly, her crops are slow to mature. Since she and her husband Glenn Huff moved to Bremerton in 2003 from Eau Claire, Wis., it’s the worst summer they’ve had.
“Things just happen and you have to respond and react and do the best you can,” Schanen said.
The City of Bremerton will install new energy-efficient lighting and windows in six city buildings as part of an effort to cut energy costs.
The Bremerton City Council passed a four-hour limit on on-street disabled parking Wednesday, capping what is currently an unlimited privilege.
