The fear, the fun, the screams of it all. Halloween is nearly upon us. Time to plan for playing it safe or playing it scary. Fortun-ately for all of us, the Bremerton area provides choices that run the entire range from the cute and fun to the full on scarefest that reduces the bravest of individuals to a crying, thumb sucking puddle of blubber. This is the one day of the year I embrace being called a real witch.
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I don’t know which is more ridiculous.
I don’t want to alarm anybody but I’ve been a little apprehensive over what I found in the change kicked out by the till at one of the local stores the other day.
“In the past, I have agreed with you maybe once,” writes Eugene J. Voight of Port Angeles, who described himself as a retired IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) lineman, $46 an hour plus the best medical and $6 an hour annuity, “and I read the paper agnostically.
Has it occurred to you that Gov. Chris Gregoire’s foreswearing tax increases and handing legislators a budget that looks like the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving dinner hints of a run for a third term?
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It was déjá vu all over again when the Bremerton School Board managed to get itself in the position of setting it up so Bremerton Schools Superintendent Dr. Bette Hyde could both retire to collect her $75,000 pension and stay on the job as interim superintendent at $124,088 until a successor was found.
It was déjá vu all over again when the Bremerton School Board managed to get itself in the position of setting it up so Bremerton Schools Superintendent Dr. Bette Hyde could both retire to collect her $75,000 pension and stay on the job as interim superintendent at $124,088 until a successor was found.
Here are some more of my favorite news stories clipped from the newspapers in 2008:
In the waning days of Operation Deep Freeze, it isn’t what happened that will live in my memory, but three things that didn’t.
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Throughout the year, I clip news stories that appealed to me for various reasons and pass the best of them along to you as my favorites of 2008.
“(In regard) to your article about your church’s struggle with the issue of homosexuality in the church, I take exception to the use of the terms ‘Lutheran churches’ and ‘Lutherans have,’” writes Dennis Splett of Bremerton.
Normally, I dump any extraneous material sent along with my household bills without reading it, but the stuff from Puget Sound Energy caught my eye.
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When I went down to get the newspapers the other day, there was a buck deer standing under the apple trees next to the driveway. A spike, but a really long-horned spike.
