It’s not the same as seeing Russia from one’s backyard, but Mark Biggs can see the 23rd legislative district from his front yard.
The East Bremerton resident, and chairman of the 35th Legislative District Democrats, was one of the first to speak at a state Redistricting Commission open house in Bremerton Thursday evening, and urged the four voting commissioners to consider including the city in one or two legislative districts, rather than the current three.
The elderly man, a Kitsap County resident, was admitted to the emergency room because he was likely to kill himself.
The hospital, outside of Kitsap County, telephoned Kitsap Mental Health, where he used to be a client before he was discharged, one of 261, due to budget cuts. The hospital needed information on his medication and where they could send him.
It’s a scenario those with the community mental health agency say highlights what can happen when people who need mental health treatment are left untreated, and one they say may become more common. Staff at the agency learned about the elderly man’s condition becaus
Matthew James Netter was dangerously high on methamphetamine and pulled a loaded pistol on a Poulsbo police officer when he was shot and killed during a July traffic stop.
Poulsbo officer Darrel Moore shot Netter, 23, of Bremerton, eight times at point blank range, until Netter stopped moving, according to a report issued Friday by Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney Russell Hauge.
A 16-year-old Roy Lusk strolled down the street in Old Town Silverdale when a man approached him and asked what he was doing.
“I’m walking down the street,” Lusk, 58, of Newberry Hill, remembered Tuesday. Then he paused. “Smart alec 16-year-old.”
The man, Bob Burpee, a ranking official in what would later be known as Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue, asked if he wanted to be a firefighter.
In a county not known as a destination for young people, it may seem odd that the two candidates vying to represent Central Kitsap on the county Board of Commissioners are in the prime of their youth.
Be that as it may, Democratic County Commissioner Josh Brown, 29, and Republican challenger Abby Burlingame, 31, may not have experience on their side, but the votes.
The pavement took on a sparkle as Katie Davis glided down the shoulder of State Highway 303 on her way home from work.
It was a rare sunny day last month and the sparkles spread from one end of the Brownsville Highway turnoff to the other.
No mirage, this was broken glass.
The pavement took on a sparkle as Katie Davis glided down the shoulder of State Highway 303 on her way home from work.
It was a rare sunny day last month and the sparkles spread from one end of the Brownsville Highway turnoff to the other.
No mirage, this was broken glass.
Shania Rose saw other people swimming Tuesday at Silverdale Waterfront Park and that was enough for her.
As Fred Just walks through the Seabeck Cemetery, slowly being reclaimed from the woods, he points to unmarked depressions in the soil and rattles off the names of those buried there.
A 79-year-old East Bremerton woman charged with murder told investigators she shot her husband Friday after he “egged her on,” handed her a cocked pistol and pointed at his forehead.
Darlene M. Green was charged with second-degree murder Tuesday in Kitsap County Superior Court and was released on her own personal recognizance, said Deputy Prosecutor Chris Casad.
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