It almost doesn’t seem like they’d ever broken up.
Ruxton Towers, back on stage together at Winterland last Friday night after months-long hiatus, cranking out the old, spacey, uncomfortably indie rock with a newfound higher octane energy and attitude. More riffs, more chops, more determined vocals, same old Ruxton Towers.
Bremerton’s Skateland is about to host an elbow-throwin’, fast-speed rollin’, rollickin’ roller derby event.
Hell’s Belles are back in town, this time with Zero Down, while the Bean gets Celtic and Bainbridge raises the ghosts of Hank and Patsy.
The patient is prepped for surgery, laying horizontal on the operating table, staring up into a pinpointed vastness of bright light.
The anesthesiologist readies the syringe and flushes the drug into the IV. She watches the patient’s face and posture slacken as they drift out of consciousness, and everything fades to black … .
It’s an intimate moment, says Dr. Marie Heaton, a moment of transferred power.
But what if the patient doesn’t wake up?
Heaton’s an anesthesiologist in Bainbridge authoress Carol Cassella’s debut novel, “Oxygen,” in bookstores July 1.
Deciding to give his full attention to being Port Orchard’s mayor, Lary Coppola announced Friday he plans to step down from the Kitsap County Planning Commission.
“The reality is, being mayor is a full-time job for me,” Coppola said, recalling that when he was first elected, “a lot of people questioned whether I’d be able to do both, but I thought it wouldn’t be that hard.”
tNuchims doesn’t expect
The newly enacted top-two primary will change how people vote and elect people who more closely represent the will of the people but will create some uncertain situations, according to information presented at a meeting of the Washington State Association of Counties in Bremerton on Thursday.
At its root, the word democracy means “rule by the people.” And as President Abraham Lincoln said, “… government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth.”
With cars clogging morning and afternoon commuter ferries, and boats running nearly empty midday, Washington State Ferries is looking for ways of getting users to shift their riding behaviors.
Patriotism vs. profits? Please everyone, stop and observe what your windfall profits are doing to the people of this great country.
I don’t make a habit of going back through things I’ve written before, but with school finished for the year and the Class of 2008 out the door, I came across something the other day that I wrote for the Class of 2001 and thought its message — with a little updating — was still relevant.
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Eric Bergeson guided both the boys and girls soccer programs at South Kitsap High School as recently as three years ago.
He resigned as girls coach immediately after the Wolves’ 2-1 loss Nov. 8, 2005 in the first round of the Class 4A state playoffs against Jackson of Mill Creek.
You can’t always believe what you read, even if it’s in three-foot-tall letters.
Organizers of South Kitsap’s Fathoms o’Fun festival were horrified this week to discover that the date for the event’s Grand Parade was misprinted on the banner displayed prominently over Bay Street.
Today is when the calendar says it’s officially summer, but the Port Orchard Branch of the Kitsap Regional Library decided to begin its summer a few days early.
Plans for the redesign of the Tremont Street corridor will be more expensive than anticipated, causing at least one city council member to react with a certain degree of sticker shock.
“No matter what we do, this will cost us a lot more than what we expected to pay,” said Port Orchard City Councilman John Clausen. “But I think we need to continue with the project and do what we will need to do in either case, because the longer we delay the more expensive it will become.”
The wife of a former Port Orchard City councilman accused of child molestation was charged in Kitsap County Superior Court Thursday with tampering with a key witness in her husband’s latest criminal case.
Elizabeth Anne Moore, 34, pleaded not guilty to one count of tampering, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Dewayne Vetter, of Port Orchard, died on June 19, 2008, at home. He was 72. He was born on Oct….
A case of wanderlust, a sense of adventure and a full tank of gas will drive new column beyond the confines of Kitsap County.
I was stunned. I read it again.
