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    Articles by Annette Wright
    What’s your kid to do?
    What’s your kid to do?
    By Annette Wright • March 30, 2020 11:30 am

    Parents, I can sympathize. Keeping little kids amused and occupied while school is out but they can’t go out or…

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    Puget Sound Anglers hatch plan to save salmon
    Puget Sound Anglers hatch plan to save salmon
    By Annette Wright • January 31, 2020 9:30 am

    The waters around Hansville were once teaming with salmon, enough to support five fishing resorts up until the early ‘60s….

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    Great expectations for 2020
    Great expectations for 2020
    By Annette Wright • January 5, 2020 8:30 am

    Saturday, Jan. 25 will usher in The Chinese Year of the Rat. If you are a believer, this means that…

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    There would be no woods, only rubble, if the two-inch long yellow-spotted millipedes didn’t consume vast amounts of fallen leaves. Photo courtesy Catherine Whalen.
    Much to do in Hansville this December
    By Annette Wright • November 29, 2019 9:30 am

    It’s a good time to take a brisk walk in the woods. And if you do, watch your step! There…

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    <em>The sparrow-sized Northern Pygmy Owl, an aggressive hunter with large feet and big eyes, has false eye spots at the back of its head that confuse predators. </em>Photo by Paul Bannick
    The owl’s year and Christmas cheer
    By Annette Wright • November 1, 2019 8:50 am

    With their haunting calls, yellow, unblinking eyes, and the startling whoosh they make as they glide invisibly in the dead…

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    Hansville Happenings
    Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • September 29, 2019 9:30 am

    Tuesday Talk will cover controversial weed killer

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    <em>The Greater Hansville Community Center’s 50th Annual Rummage Sale will be held on Aug. 10 through Aug. 11. </em> Nick Twietmeyer / Kitsap News Group
    Hansville Rummage Sale takes plenty of teamwork
    By Annette Wright • July 28, 2019 8:30 am

    Hundreds of volunteers came together this year to organize the Greater Hansville Community Center’s 50th Annual Rummage Sale. Such a…

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    Summertime and the living is fun
    Summertime and the living is fun
    By Annette Wright • July 5, 2019 8:30 am

    The mountains are out and so is the sun! Time to enjoy Hansville’s two annual open-air events. Remember, all you…

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    Get your hands dirty in April
    Get your hands dirty in April
    By Annette Wright • March 29, 2019 1:30 am

    Battle against plastic

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    Lolita, now about 54-years-old, is doing tricks for an ever-dwindling crowd at Miami’s Seaquarium. Photo by Ingrid N. Visser, Orca Research Trust
    The fight to bring Lolita home comes to...
    By Annette Wright • March 3, 2019 11:30 am

    “We are on borrowed time. It’s a wonder she has survived this long,” says Howard Garrett, co-founder of the Orca…

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    When Buck Lake froze over for a week or two in the 1930s and 1940s, some Hansvillites ice skated till midnight. (Photo courtesy of Lyn Peterson)
    Old stories of icy, foggy, soggy days
    By Annette Wright • January 15, 2018 1:30 am

    Compared to the snow bombs in the Northeast, our weather has been relatively balmy. We’ve enjoyed many sunny, winter days…

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    Looking back: The wreck of the SS Admiral Sampson off Point No Point | Hansville Happenings
    Looking back: The wreck of the SS Admiral...
    By Annette Wright • December 15, 2017 1:30 am

    In the shipping lane off Point No Point, about 320 feet down, the wreck of the SS Admiral Sampson sits,…

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    &lt;em&gt;The “Puppets Please Marionettes” starring Santa and his gang will be at Greater Hansville Community Center’s Children’s Christmas Party. &lt;/em&gt;Shirley McManus/Courtesy photo
    North-end holiday highlights | Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • December 1, 2017 1:30 am

    The brightest light in the night sky this month will be 2017’s only supermoon, on Dec. 3 weather permitting. That’s…

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    The latest data shows the amount of forest burned annually in the Pacific Northwest has increased by nearly 5000 percent since the early 1970s. (Adelia Ritchie/Submitted)
    Time for a change | Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • October 27, 2017 1:30 am

    Ready for some good news? On the personal front, you’re not too old to change. And on the global front,…

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    Hydrofoils, such as the USS High Point launched in 1962 and operated from the Puget Sound Navy Shipyard, was designed by Boeing to “fly” above the sea, reducing drag and risk of torpedo attacks.
    ‘I took a walk in the woods’ |...
    By Annette Wright • August 25, 2017 1:30 am

    “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees,” said Henry David Thoreau, who has…

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    Two fishing buddies show off their catch in the mid- to late-1950s.
    Our troubled waters, wetter winters | Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • June 6, 2017 1:00 pm

    Months of rain, a spate of little quakes in May, what’s next? A plague of murderous crows?

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    Alix Kosin and Howie O’Brien sort more than 5,000 books in preparation for the big Greater Hansville Community Center book sale June 9-11. (Annette Wright / Contributed)
    Good reads at great prices at the GHCC...
    By Annette Wright • June 5, 2017 9:00 am

    HANSVILLE — Dynamic couple Alix Kosin and Howie O’Brien sorted through 5,000 books donated this year for the upcoming spring…

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    Nature’s wonders close to home | Hansville Happenings
    Nature’s wonders close to home | Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • April 4, 2017 7:00 am

    The weather is fine, the earth is showing signs of new life, it’s time to go outside and take a…

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    (Art Ellison / Contributed)
    Where the wild things are | Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • February 24, 2017 1:30 am

    I was warned. When I moved here, my neighbors said to be sure my cat and dog were safely indoors…

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    A Bug In Your Ear by Eileen Sorg
    Spring is nearly here | Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • January 27, 2017 1:30 am

    The first sign of spring has popped up in my mail box — an invitation to The Northwest Flower &Garden…

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    A brisk winter day at the Erickson farm on Hansville Road, November 2014. (Irvin Damm / Submitted)
    What Would Santa Say? | Hansville Happenings
    By Annette Wright • December 5, 2016 1:30 am

    “Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own…

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