On a warm, bright spring afternoon, Bremerton school bus driver Scott Collette pulls up No. 29 to the curb behind Mountain View Middle School.
Andy More and his wife, Angel Perry, have run the Charleston music venue for the past four years and are now buying the building, located at 333 Charleston St.
Room 312 in Central Kitsap High School is technology teacher Jim Adamson’s wonderland.
Central Kitsap School District is making some changes to its program for students who don’t speak English as a first language.
On May 27, the Kitsap Forest Theater will open the curtains on its 84th season with a classic Broadway musical.
On May 22, the lights will go up at 7 p.m. for Madonna Hanna’s last fashion show with Bremerton High School.
The fashion marketing teacher is retiring in June after a 30-year career of coaching students to be their personal and professional best.
Kristy Grinnell, 36, will be joining Klahowya Secondary School in fall as its newest assistant principal.
The Klahowya Secondary School Auditorium hosted Monday the 6th Annual Native American Honoring Ceremony for 14 Central Kitsap School District graduating seniors with tribal heritages.
Olympic High School instructor and Teacher of the Year Brandon Brown stands up and teaches technology courses in the same classroom he once sat at a desk in and learned computer drafting.
Bremerton High School’s financial literacy class might pay off for some of its students.
Space is getting tight at the Silverdale branch of the Kitsap Regional Library, so fundraisers are looking for another way to hold their book sales.
The Klahowya Secondary School Auditorium hosted Monday the 6th Annual Native American Honoring Ceremony for 14 Central Kitsap School District graduating seniors with tribal heritages.
Central Kitsap School District could see big changes to its school set-up as soon as August 2014, including changing high schools to a ninth through 12th grade format and moving sixth grade to junior high.
Silverdale residents will gather Sunday at Silverdale’s Olympic View Community Club to honor their mothers and the bond of community.
It’s the 50th anniversary of the mother’s day breakfast.
Club treasurer Joy Corbett has been to many of those breakfasts, starting when she was a little girl.
Students from kindergarten through high school in most of the country, including Kitsap County, will see curriculum based on new education standards starting in August 2014.
The Common Core standards are meant to encourage analytic thinkers and to close perceived gaps in what high-school graduates learn and what colleges require, lining out standards in English and math meant to make sure a kindergartner entering school in 2014 graduates high school in 2027 ready for college or work.
Local schools say they are already gearing up for the new standards.
Central Kitsap School District has plans to build a new sustainably sourced, handicapped-accessible school at Jackson Park Elementary, but district officials aren’t yet sure if there will be enough money to have it open by 2014 as previously planned.
Central Kitsap School District Superintendent Greg Lynch said $15 million from the school district’s 2011 capital project
The Central Kitsap School District’s 2012-2013 budget forecast turned slightly sunnier than officials thought a few weeks ago, but it’s still as much as $1.1 million short.
“$1.1 million is a lot, but still better than $1.6 million,” said David McVicker, the district’s director of business and operations.
The uncertainty about the budget is because of a program the Central Kitsap district relies on for a big portion of funding.
The community forum, attended by several Kitsap County and state officials, took a mostly positive bent as people talked about the services still available in Kitsap County.
Many look forward to the Kitsap Community Shelter, the first overnight drop-in shelter to open in the county, said Housing Solutions Center coordinator Kirsten Jule.
The bartender pours off two pints and sets them on the expansive bar at Silver City Brewery in Silverdale before Chuck Whitacre and Jim Snodgrass.
Following a few organizational bumps in recent years, organizers are hoping to make the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede special this year.
“Let’s line up for Read Naturally,” Jeff Clark and Lizzy Myers call out as they help lead a class of first-graders down the hall to a computer lab at Naval Avenue Elementary in Bremerton.
Bremerton High School senior Felice Zeitler will be the first in her family to go to college.
Zeitler gets extra coaching because she’s also dyslexic, and had to meet with counselors and persuaded the school to allow her into Advanced Placement classes.
Harkness leads the Washington State University Extension Kitsap County 4H group and works as an extension agent, giving advice to people learning how to garden and raise animals on small acreages. She’s seeing a surge in folks who are interested in being more self-sufficient.
Goats are appealing for their meat, milk and cheese.
