In fifth grade, Paige Richards was known as “the Indian girl.”
She knew she was part Native American, but wished she wasn’t.
Then, maybe the students would stop calling her names.
“I was kind of taking it out on my heritage,” she said. “I didn’t want to be a part of it anymore.”
Richards is an enrolled member of the Upper Chehalis tribe and will be a junior this year at Central Kitsap High School.
Robert Goodwin was excited about moving back to Japan and when Kristen Thorstenson last saw him, she greeted him with “konnichiwa,” the Japanese equivalent of “good afternoon.”
Thorstenson and others recalled their last memories of Goodwin at a memorial service Tuesday at Jackson Park Community Chapel.
Goodwin, 37, was an emergency medical doctor at Naval Hospital Bremerton a
Through a net loss of seven teachers, administrative pay cuts and closing classrooms, the Central Kitsap School District will try and close a $3.4 million budget gap next year.
David McVicker, executive director of business and operations, said Wednesday at a school board meeting the plan was preliminary, but acknowledged even the early plan was hard to write.
Early Sunday, under a full moon, Carol Sakavich tightened her shoe laces and stepped on the track.
Round and round the Central Kitsap High School track she walked — for about 10 miles overnight, breathing steam in the cool air.
While others slept or took a break, Sakavich, 62, of Silverdale,
Scraping up loose change and paychecks from his part-time job, 18-year-old Dylan Towle plans on celebrating Independence Day with a bang.
His friend is going to teach him how to make sparkler bombs.
“I wanna buy a buttload of sparklers,” he said, browsing the tables of fireworks at an East Bremerton stand.
Scraping up loose change and paychecks from his part-time job, 18-year-old Dylan Towle plans on celebrating Independence Day with a bang.
His friend is going to teach him how to make sparkler bombs.
“I wanna buy a buttload of sparklers,” he said, browsing the tables of fireworks at an East Bremerton stand.
Stuck between corporate giants Verizon and Starbucks in a strip mall, a new business opens up and it’s not surprising….
Stuck between corporate giants Verizon and Starbucks in a strip mall, a new business opens up and it’s not surprising.
After all, it’s Silverdale, known for the Kitsap Mall and retail giants.
However, at Aloha Kitchen, Allan Hammond recalls fond memories and finds comfort in t
Atop a stool and looking up from a plate of sausage and a pancake topped with an egg and sausage gravy, Mike Brown recalls a time back in the day.
“It’s kind of like the Happy Days thing when I was a kid,” he said.
Neighbors and old friends stop and say hello to Brown as he finishes his breakfast at the Big Apple Diner — a routine he follows several times a week.
Curtis Nelson had never heard of Juneteenth, but he knew there would be free food and live music at the park.
The 22-year-old Bremerton man said he has come to Evergreen Rotary Park every third Saturday in June for at least the last five years. To him, it looked like a party for Bremerton’s black community.
Central Kitsap’s James Mackovjak will share something in common with tennis star Andy Roddick, basketball’s Chauncey Billups and Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson this weekend: A milk mustache.
The Central Kitsap High School senior was selected from nearly 45,000 for a $7,500 scholarship from the company behind the Got Milk? advertising campaign.
Two Silverdale boys and their mother are recovering after a deadly crash that killed their Navy doctor father and husband Saturday in Eastern Washington.
Robert Goodwin, 37, died at the scene on Interstate 90 about six miles east of Moses Lake in Grant County, according to a statement from the Washington State Patrol.
A collision between a Navy contractor truck and a car caused a small fuel spill and closed both lanes of State Highway 308 for nearly two hours Monday.
Only minor injuries were reported, Hefton said.At about 2 p.m. a Washington State Patrol trooper traveling east attempted to pull over for speeding a 34-year-old Poulsbo woman traveling west. The driver of the truck following behind the trooper, a 39-year-old Kingston man started braking when he saw the troopers lights causing the truck to jackknife, said Trooper Tony Radulescu.
Schools in Central Kitsap and Bremerton are switching out textbooks, changing the way teachers teach and keeping a closer eye on students all to raise suffering math scores.
Schools in Central Kitsap and Bremerton are switching out textbooks, changing the way teachers teach and keeping a closer eye on students all to raise suffering math scores.
The 2009-2010 school year marked a turning point for both districts as they combined new curriculum, better technology and new ways to closer track student progress.
A Democratic East Bremerton homebuilder and a Republican Bremerton chiropractor have joined the fray challenging County Commissioner Josh Brown, a Democrat, for his District 3 seat.
Both Democrat Wally Carlson and Republican David Corley are looking to unseat Brown, of Silverdale.
Dan Schremser believes there are hundreds of reasons to get up each morning — and they all carry backpacks.
Schremser, 84, better known around in the hallways of Pinecrest Elementary School as Grandpa Dan, volunteers at the school several times a week and has done so before the plastic was taken off new furniture when the school opened in 1998.
Search crews at Mt. Rainier National Park will continue looking for an Olympic High School graduate who they believe was buried in an avalanche Saturday.
According to eyewitnesses, Mark Wedeven, 27, of Olympia,
The Central Kitsap School Board approved a recommendation for a levy Wednesday but hesitated to forward it to the February ballot.
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