Payton Frandsen helps load wood to be cut Saturday in the backyard of his Seabeck house. The Make-a-Wish Foundation
Three years in the making, mental health advocates are hailing the opening of Bremerton’s Keller House — named for former Kitsap Mental Health Executive Director Larry Keller — as a step forward in serving Kitsap’s mentally ill.
It’s springtime softball for Starr Rodenhurst. But, come summertime, it’s back to the free-throw line.
In March, the chance to advance to the national level of a free-throw competition was on the line. Starr shot and she missed.
She placed third of four at the regional level in Vancouver, Ore. last month, failing to advance to the national shootout. She lost to last year’s top female shooter.
A lifejacket loaner board was erected and dedicated April 3 at Wildcat Lake in Seabeck. The loaner board was built by members of the Long Lake Bass Club after they were approached by the family of Trenten Morris who drowned in the lake last year.
As the rest of his Kitsap Lake neighbors decried a gravel mining operation proposed near their houses, Ken Widell embraced…
Two weeks ago Ryan Hafley had his first freshly brewed beer, and not coincidentally, his last supermarket domestic beer.
“I have refused to drink Bud Light in a bottle ever since,” he said.
Hafley, 24, of Bremerton, is not the first in working class Central Kitsap to see the light through the pint glass. The brewing business in Kitsap is booming and making believers by the barrel.
Bill Sproules sells brewing supplies in Bremerton and said it’s a simple law of economics.
“When the economy’s good, people drink beer,” Sproules said. “When the economy’s bad, people drink more beer.”
With the recent bubbling of business upstarts and expansions, Kitsap County residents now have more places to down a crafted after-work pint.
While Central Kitsap students sleep in on spring break, several inches of snow fell in communities along the Hood Canal…
When a kayak tips over in Kingston, help can get there quicker.
Monday marked the beginning of an agreement between the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Navy, allowing deputies to moor a boat Naval Base Kitsap — Keyport to help cut response time on the water to Central and North Kitsap. It may be the first such agreement in Kitsap, and elsewhere, but it might not be the last.
Jim Dunbar takes the lid off a hive in search of the queen bee Friday, one among the buzzing thousands. David Mackovjak sprays campfire-scented smoke to dull the bees’ senses. Meanwhile, Dunbar delicately pulls the frames out one at a time from inside the box. Eventually he spots her, the queen is there and she’s busy.
“Move slow and you won’t get stung,” Dunbar said.
It’s not time to harvest honey yet, but Dunbar and Mackovjak now know the hive is productive and will hopefully produce somewhere between 30 and 60 pounds of honey in the next few months. The thousands of bees flying around the two beekeepers as they place the frame carefully back in the box will also help pollinate local gardens.
For some it’s a hobby, for others a way to ensure the health of their gardens. And yet, as the practice of keeping bees gains popularity in Kitsap, it’s a way for people to control their food and protect the environment.
Thurston County deputies called off the search Monday for 29-year-old Shantina “Kat” Smiley of Silverdale after taking a break over the weekend, said Lt. Chris Mealy, a detective with the sheriff’s office.
The body of Azriel Carver, Smiley’s 8-year-old son, was discovered on Fox Island Thursday. His death was ruled as an accidental drowning by the Pierce County Medical Examiner. Carver was a second-grader at Vinland Elementary School in Poulsbo.
When Anthony Zendejas performs, grown men cry.
It’s not just the average man either. Men who were starved, beaten, tortured and given no reason to live — they are the ones that connect most with the 18-year-old Klahowya Secondary School student.
“When I saw their tears, it was the hardest performance I’d done,” Zendejas said of performing his one-man skit in Washington D.C. The performance has attracted the local and national spotlight and the high school senior is busy preparing to take it international.
The public is invited to help celebrate the retirement of Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue Chief Ken Burdette. The celebration…
Jim Dunbar takes the lid off a hive in search of the queen bee Friday, one among the buzzing thousands. David Mackovjak sprays campfire-scented smoke to dull the bees’ senses. Meanwhile, Dunbar delicately pulls the frames out one at a time from inside the box. Eventually he spots her, the queen is there and she’s busy.
“Move slow and you won’t get stung,” Dunbar said.
It’s not time to harvest honey yet, but Dunbar and Mackovjak now know the hive is productive and will hopefully produce somewhere between 30 and 60 pounds of honey in the next few months. The thousands of bees flying around the two beekeepers as they place the frame carefully back in the box will also help pollinate local gardens.
Although power was restored 35 minutes before the first bell would have rung for classes at 7:45 a.m., Olympic High School closed for the day.
The Central Kitsap School District decided to close the school about 5 a.m., said district spokesman David Beil.
Crews from Puget Sound Energy were working on an underground cable throughout the night, finally restoring power to about 150 Central Kitsap customers, including the high school, at 7:10 a.m. Tuesday morning.
When friends and patrons left Sunday after Barstool Bingo, “Mama” Mary Turner shut the doors to the 19th Hole Restaurant for the last time.
The restaurant and bar on Erlands Point Road near the Kitsap Golf and Country Club in Chico closed over the weekend after the owner, Herb Heintz of Seattle, called Turner and told her to close shop.
Mounting debt from unpaid taxes and a slumping economy forced the closure of the World War II-era building.
The body of a boy washed ashore on Fox Island Thursday has been identified at 8-year-old Azriel Carver.
Pierce County Detective Ed Troyer confirmed the body is that of Azriel Carver who went missing along with his mother, 29-year-old Shantina “Kat” Smiley, Saturday night.
Jackson Park fourth-grader Aumajuss McKee dumped “Breakfast,” “Lunch” and “Dinner” into Silverdale’s Clear Creek Tuesday morning.
It wasn’t the contents of his lunch box that fell in the water, but three juvenile Chum salmon he had named.
McKee and 40 of his classmates released salmon, planted trees, tested water quality and handled water bugs all before noon Tuesday as part of the Salmon in the Classroom project.
The last time Shantina “Kat” Smiley was seen, she walked up to a stranger’s house Saturday night outside Olympia and asked to use the phone.
The 29-year-old Silverdale woman then got directions back to Interstate 5.
And then she disappeared, along with her 8-year-old son, Azriel Carver, never arriving at a relative’s house in Castle Rock.
Sunday morning her fiance’s van was found partially submerged in Budd Inlet.
As it turns out, Silverdale realtor and developer Ron Ross is not in London and he doesn’t need 850 pounds…
Students at Jackson Park Elementary have to be careful not drink out of the water fountains.
Rebuilding Jackson Park is atop the Central Kitsap School District’s list of construction projects, especially since 2005 when a leak was discovered in the school’s plumbing.
