The 76-year age gap didn’t matter. Nor did the fact that they had both chess and checker pieces on the table.
“I don’t even know him,” said Dick Carr, 79, of the 3-year-old who sat across the table from him at Brownsville Marine and Deli Jan. 21. “He just came in so we’re going to play checkers.”
Melanie Almeida and her family visit the Silverdale library multiple times a week to study, check out materials and use the computers.
It’s about as often as some families visit the grocery store. Being a regular, she is familiar with the wear-and-tear of the current facility.
After more than 27 years in he bus business, Kitsap Transit Executive Director Dick Hayes announced his retirement at the agency’s Tuesday commissioners board meeting.
Vicki Shaw of Tracyton sees the need for a Central Kitsap School District construction levy, but in the rough economy, where job loss is still looming on the horizon for many, extra caution is advised.
“Most likely I’ll vote in favor of the schools,” said Shaw, 52. “But they need to be very careful with spending money, just like the private citizen is being careful spending money.”
They have pale faces, no eyes and their mouths are always gaping.
“They’re weird because they have little lights and if you fail, the light goes on and says they died,” Olympic High School senior Autumn Kreifels said of the CPR mannequins in her sports medicine class. “Green light means they’re living. Red li
He looks like any adorable dog, a labradoodle — a Labrador and poodle mix — but Rainbow is more than a companion to Pami Perry.
“I take him everywhere with me,” said Perry, 41, of East Bremerton, talking about the service dog who has been assisting her for a year. Perry began using a canine assistant in 2004 to help her deal with her disabilities, which include impaired hearing.
With the roof raised over the Haselwood Family YMCA in Silverdale New Year’s Eve, the facility is expected to open July 1, said spokeswoman Michelle LaRue Wednesday. Windows are scheduled to be placed in the building next week with flooring to go in soon after. In about three weeks, construction for the pool will begin.
Fish, channel markers, stations of the cross and trees. These are just a sampling of the different items Brad Kauzlaric portrayed in his oil paintings and mosaics during his time as an artist in Seabeck.
Struck by colorectal cancer, Kauzlaric died in April 2007 at the age of 71 but left behind many pieces that one of his four children, Clayton Kauzlaric, is currently
Laura Sharp, a bride at 22, drove halfway across the midwest, trying on 100 dresses before she found the perfect one.
Her experiences with salespeople varied. Some she felt wanted to help her find a dress that suited her, and at other times she was left in a warehouse with a dress she didn’t even know how to put on
Driving back from Montana at the end of November, the band hit the season’s first snow storm.
Other drivers slipped by the tour van carrying Tumbledown. They kept a tire on the rumble strips of State Highway 3 in Gorst to avoid sliding on snow and ice, but once at Montgomery Avenue in Bremerton, they couldn’t avoid pu
Central Kitsap students learn how to communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing.
Devin McGinnis of Central Kitsap High School is a typical student, if one doesn’t count the harassment he regularly endures in the halls of Central Kitsap High School.
“I get called a faggot,” said McGinnis, 16, a gay student who said he hears the word directed at him about once a week. “I really hate it. I usually ignore it.”
Students in Central Kitsap High School
They work hard because they like it.
“I actually really like learning — anything,” said Carolyn Harris of Central Kitsap High school.
Four seniors in the Central Kitsap School District and one from the Bremerton
Daniel Northrup of Bremerton
John Stasny tipped the wing of his sky blue Cessna 172 last week, hundreds of feet above Silverdale. Simultaneous views of the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges spread out on either side of the Puget Sound, a vista that is always there, but is often hidden to the earthbound.
“It’s kind of like God’s country being up there,” Stasny said when back on the ground at Apex Airpark
Sean Shelton, 7, points at snow made of soap suds that were falling Nov. 26 at Kitsap Mall
Mike Curry may no longer be a professional diver, but his many duties with Catholic Community Services — including becoming director of Benedict House last summer, Bremerton’s shelter for homeless men — has him jumping right in.
Marnie Ferraro of East Bremerton has four sons in the Central Kitsap School District, ranging from a kindergartner at Woodlands Elementary School to a senior at Olympic High School. She hopes to see more foreign language education starting at
Jason Mcleod of Silverdale will be staying as far from the mall as possible Friday. He’s not against shopping, just shopping on this particular day — Black Friday.
“I don’t shop on Black Friday because we’re told to shop on Black Friday,” Mcleod, 38, said. “I’ll sho
Transit buses have until the middle of February to vacate current operations on the west side of Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, after Kitsap’s transit authority received word earlier this month it was getting the boot.
