Abby Carey

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Raising money for those in need

Abby Carey, 18, along with other students at Central Kitsap High School are helping to raise money to…

Walkers and volunteers are pictured at Klahowya Secondary School at last year’s Kitsap Walk MS event — to promote awareness on multiple sclerosis and raise money for research and programs. This year’s walk is scheduled for April 2.

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April walk at Klahowya to benefit National MS Society

It all began when he couldn’t catch a ball while coaching his son’s youth basketball team. “I just…

Shannon Tracewell reads a book by Lenore Look to her second grade class last week. Her students wrote letters to Look last fall and she will visit the class Friday.

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‘Girls, school and other scary things’ – Author of children’s books dealing with anxiety to visit elementary school in Silverdale.

Jennifer Erichsen, a student at Emerald Heights Elementary School in Silverdale, spends most nights awake past her bedtime…

Kristin Okinaka/staff photo Sharon Metcalf gets Leonard Newsom of East Bremerton ready to donate blood at Puget Sound Blood Center’s Silverdale location last week. Newsom

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Every pint counts – Frequent Kitsap blood donors give, and give some more

He started when he was about 16 years old and has never stopped. Although some cringe at the…

Dawn Talley gets Jen Hadaway of Bremerton ready to donate blood at a blood drive at the Norm Dicks Government Center Monday. Puget Sound Blood Center has more than 100 mobile blood drives in Western Washington a week.

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Every pint counts – Frequent Kitsap blood donors give, and give some more

He started when he was about 16 years old and has never stopped. Although some cringe at the…

Bob Kieffer helps Angelia Myers prepare and file her income tax return Tuesday at the Silverdale Community Center. The AARP Tax-Aide program is a free service open to the public.

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Free income tax return preparation and filing help in Silverdale and Bremerton

For some, spring may mean cleaning, more hours of daylight or the daunting task of filing tax returns.…

Hank Mann-Sykes looks at a map of Silverdale’s urban growth area. Mann-Sykes has been an advocate for incorporation

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then in ways, Hank Mann-Sykes is the father of Silverdale

Hank Sykes was sweeping up in the radio station in San Antonio, an orphan, a teenager not yet…

Rian Anderson

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Central Kitsap teen fights rare tumor

Rian Anderson likes to watch movies. She hangs out with her boyfriend. Sometimes she gets into fights with…

Gwen Guidici of Bremerton in front of one of her oil paintings at Old Town Custom Framing and Gallery in Silverdale Monday. Sixteen of the Bremerton artist’s landscape paintings were recently turned into a jigsaw puzzle as a Mac App.

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Like that oil painting? There’s an app for that

Gwen Guidici draws inspiration from the beauty of her surroundings. Then she paints it. And then it’s turned…

History teacher at Central Kitsap High School

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CK High helps bridge the ‘achievement gap’

It didn’t happen overnight. It was a long time in the making. Central Kitsap High School was recognized…

Volunteer Kim Duff hands Hannah Burke

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Central Kitsap’s Cougar Valley Elementary thinks green

It smelled, but they couldn’t really complain since they were the cause of it. So they rolled up…

Sue Borgeson

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Group for Silverdale incorporation continues to define boundaries

Figuring out the boundaries for a proposed incorporated Silverdale will be more difficult than playing “eeny, meeny, miny,…

Brandyn Stone places a few bagels on a tray to cool after being boiled while Alyca Scott rolls dough at Evergreen Kitchen in Bremerton last week. Stonehouse Breads bakes in the co-op commercial kitchen and sells its New York-style bagels in stores and farmers markets around Kitsap County.

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Evergreen Kitchen, Bremerton’s 24/7 co-op commerical kitchen, is going strong

Last Thursday afternoon it was bagels. Bagels, salsa, artisan breads, soups and barbecue sauce typically do not have…

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Kitsap Transit decides on bus stop location after being ordered off Kitsap Mall property

Kitsap Transit will design and build a bus transfer station on Clear Creek Road near Greaves Way to…

Navy Chaplain Cmdr. Manuel A. (Don) Biadog Jr. leads a dedication prayer for Sally’s Camp

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Bremerton Salvation Army’s shelter opens

The Bremerton Salvation Army’s homeless shelter had its ceremonial opening Monday and another Bremerton shelter is in the…

Farron Hakanson (center) and others from the USS John C. Stennis Beach Detachment dig dirt for a roadside culvert along Silverdale Way Tuesday. The project is part of making the area by the Silverdale sign nicer as a new sign is to be placed with the community’s slogan.  A Silverdale slogan contest is underway by the Clear Creek Trail Task Force and the Silverdale Chamber of Commerce.

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What’s in a name? – Silverdale’s north entrance sign will get a facelift and new slogan

Sure, Silverdale may not be a city, but soon it too will have its own slogan. “Welcome to…

The words “Thank You” cover a Central Kitsap School District capital projects levy sign Wednesday across the street from Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale. The $58 million capital projects levy was passing with a 52.75 percent approval Wednesday evening.

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Central Kitsap School District’s levy measure passing

Just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, Greg Lynch walked toward the center of the Olympic High School library still…

Bartender Jennifer Dowdle looks at the pull tabs with two visitors to Kelly’s 19th Hole Sports Bar and Grill Monday. The bar opened Feb. 4 with a new look and under new management.

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Another round for Chico’s 19th Hole – Bar opens with new insides and management

The Buddha figure sitting on the top shelf above the liquor bottles isn’t the only new accent to…

Sammy Knox

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McGregor and Company owners to retire after 16 years in Old Town Silverdale

The pinging sound of the cash register isn’t typical. The vintage unit looks like it’s just for show,…

Christian rock band

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Rock of ages – Kitsap Christian rock bands on the rise

When they rocked out to Classic Crime in 2009, the members of the Christian rock band The Exchange…