Many folks remember the 1972 Seattle billboard: “Would the last person who leaves Seattle please turn out the lights?”
Kitsap County will slightly modify its roadside memorial policy, extending the life of the signs and increasing the fee in order to cover the costs of installation and maintenance.
t Heath, Moore earn spots in starting lineup.
A 27-year-old South Kitsap woman was cited for driving without vehicle insurance last weekend after her car struck a horse on Bethel-Burley Road, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reported.
According to the report, witnesses called 911 shortly before 10 p.m. June 1 to report that an injured brown horse was walking on Bethel-Burley Road near Edmonds Street and had been struck by at least two cars.
Any economic boost Kitsap County receives in the near future is more likely to come from agriculture than racetracks, sustainable energy incubators or industry, according to a consultant who visited the Port Orchard on Wednesday.
“We need to release the local food producers from the regulations that prevent them from selling their products to their neighbors,” said Joel Salatin, an author and small farmer from Swoope, Va. “We have to close the distance between the producer and the plate.”
One of the last uncontested county races was filled on Wednesday, when Poulsbo Realtor John Clark declared his intention to…
A second power outage in three days hit South Kitsap residents Thursday afternoon, shutting down power to about 4,500 customers, according to Puget Sound Energy.
Spokesman Joseph Harris said power went out Thursday at about 1:15 p.m. due to “equipment failure” at the company’s East Port Orchard substation.
Every now and then someone puts a book into your hands and says, “You must read this.”
You think, “Hmm, as many books as there are published every day, why would this one prove meaningful to me?”
And yet, it always does. Doesn’t it?
It’s as if the rich kaleidoscope of books they share contain important messages you need to hear and the people themselves, well, they’re some sort of angel.
Years ago, I forget how many, but at least 20, someone gave me a picture they took of me and I was surprised to notice a brown spot about the size of a quarter on my cheek.
Its not that I hadn’t ever noticed it before but if it was becoming significant enough to catch the eye in a photograph, I figured I should look into it.
I delved into the American Medical Associations Family Medical Guide, where I learned I was sporting whats called a pre-cancerous skin spot caused by over exposure to the sun many years ago.
I.e., if you don’t do something about it, it will continue to grow and develop into one of three types of skin cancer.
Quick updates and announcements of happenings in the Port Orchard community.
The roster before the season looked strong enough to be the best in Jim Fairweather’s five seasons.
There was an offense with enough power and speed, and a pitching staff with two starters who threw around 90 mph.
But one starter fell ineligible and the other, Collin Monagle, didn’t start a game because of weakness in his right shoulder.
Senior Tyler Sartor said Fairweather had a simple message for the team: Deal with it.
With the confidence borne of someone who won’t have to face the voters again until 2011 (assuming he even decides to run at that point), Port of Bremerton Commissioner Bill Mahan last week went to bat once more for his pet project, the Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) business incubator he envisions being built in the South Kitsap Industrial Area.
Speaking at a luncheon event on Wednesday with the Kitsap County commissioners, Mahan lamented the lack of progress on SEED and blamed the gridlock on leaders who lack his vision.
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MPROV COMEDY CLASSES: Presented by the Changing Scene Theatre Northwest, will be Sundays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 8-29. Cost is $100 for all four Sundays including tickets to the final class performance. Limited to 15 students. To reserve, contact David at (360) 440-5730. Info: www.changingscenenorthwest.org.
Amy Burnett is at it again.
During June’s First Friday Art Walk this Friday, she’ll be officially donating a piece of her work to the Olympic College Haselwood Library with a ceremony at her gallery in downtown Bremerton.
Nothing pulls the sequined sling-backs out of the closet like an elite Manhattan event, and Friday night there was one of those happening at just about every movie theater in every town in the country.
Five of the homes we’ve lived in here in Kitsap County have had a madrone Arbutus menziesii in the garden. It may be my most favorite of all the trees.
For more than 10 years, though, the madrones in our Washington State neighborhoods have been suffering from a host of maladies. Some are fungal in nature and others involve root rots called phytophthoras. Canker can also attack the tree.
ndianola by way of England artist Elizabeth Reed Smith works with some of the most formidable symbols on Earth.
Yet her style is so delicate that she counts a magnifying glass as just another piece of equipment.
Growing up, Stephanie Charbonneau always wanted to be part of a girls’ choir.
She was a musically talented kid, who picked up on the piano at age 3 and found her singing voice soon after. She longed for a group that would foster those abilities
I was as shocked when I heard about the release of a homeless sex offender in my district, who was instructed by community supervision officials to live under the 88th Street Bridge, which crosses State Route 2.
The bridge is located less than five miles from the home of the offender’s victim and near an elementary school.
Oftentimes when a marriage ends or a spouse dies or becomes disabled, it’s difficult for the survivor to embark on the next phase of their life.
That’s where Olympic College Women’s Programs and College Success and the Washington State Displaced Homemaker Program are stepping in to provide a one-day workshop for homemakers in transition from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on June 5 in the Bremer Student Center’s North and South conference rooms at OC’s Bremerton campus.
