As it stands today, a 1.4-acre plot of land adjacent to Evergreen Park is fenced off, filled with mud, brush, grass and weeds.
But a year from now, community members involved in developing the area hope it will be the final addition to Evergreen Park, complete with a Sept. 11 memorial that has been seeking a home since steel beams salvaged from the World Trade Center arrived in Kitsap last summer.
West Sound Technical Skills Center will not offer summer school this year in an effort to save the Bremerton School District money as it faces more than $1 million in budget reductions.
I’ve been getting a little weepy lately.
And no, it’s not an allergic reaction to my stale, smoky-smelling Naval Avenue apartment, though that’s pretty common, too.
It’s because I’m reluctant to leave it. I feel like I’m leaving behind my home.
“You see what you’re doing?” my boyfriend asked me, himself a Bremerton expatriate. “You’re calling Bremerton home. Most people here want to leave it.”
Michael Hilt was drawn into The Daily Dish by the promise of pasties, advertised in signs outside the restaurant.
As an Olympic College instructor working with the shipyard’s apprenticeship program, he wanted to catch a quick lunch before class. He’d heard of pasties when he taught in England, but never had one before, so he ordered one with beef – the traditional variety.
“I wish I could have a pint of beer with it,” Hilt told owners Lynn Beckwith and Kelly Bauch April 1, after his first bite.
When Fred Sheffler was touring the McNeil Island Corrections Center during a business trip about 12 years ago, an inmate asked to speak with him. Sheffler didn’t recognize him at the time, but after talking, he realized they’d served in the Army together in Vietnam.
Then the inmate told him something he’d never forget.
For Maggie Mahoney, working at the Frances Haddon Morgan Center has become a stressful environment. It’s not because of her work with the severely disabled residents, but because she doesn’t know whether she’ll have a job this summer.
With the center slated for closure by June 30 in Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposed 2011-2013 budget — a decision still not approved by the Legislature — Mahoney, a house manager, is one of 150 employees whose jobs are in jeopardy. Furthermore, there are about 50 residents, some of whom have been there for decades, whose futures are unclear. Though local lawmakers are working on legislation to keep the Morgan Center open in some capacity, staff members are living under the assumption that it will close.
When Senior Chief Yolanda Adams was assigned to the USS Nimitz from Norfolk, Va., she looked for housing throughout the Puget Sound area, including Seattle, Tacoma and Bainbridge Island. But when she arrived in the area about three weeks ago, she spent a few nights in Bremerton and signed a lease for the first house she looked at on Lafayette Avenue in a matter of days.
The Bremerton Bar and Grill, a new downtown restaurant scheduled to open for dinner April 18, is hiring more than 40 local employees for all positions.
The restaurant has hired 15 people so far and is conducting weekly interviews with interested applicants.
The Kitsap County Superior Court ruled Friday to hand the management of Legion Field over to the Bremerton School District after the district sued American Legion Post 68 for control of the field, according to court records and district officials.
When Cary Bozeman walks around downtown Bremerton, people peek their heads out of buildings to greet him. He gives high-fives to children and says hello to strangers at the ferry terminal.
It’s as if he owns the place, and in a way, he does. As the former mayor, he helped develop Bremerton from “a town that had lost its way” to a city The Seattle Times reported in 2004 was on the “brink of prosperity,” with the Kitsap Conference Center, ferry tunnel and new marina developed during his administration.
About 16 teaching positions for the next school year will be cut if Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposed budget reductions are approved by lawmakers, Bremerton School District officials said last week.
In a report to the Bremerton School Board, Director of Finance and Operations Wayne Lindberg said the elimination of kindergarten through fourth grade enhancement money and I-728 teaching positions, along with expiring federal stimulus dollars, will wipe out money that pays for 16.1 teaching jobs.
Bob Montgomery joined the Bremerton Community Theatre “almost by accident.”
He was working in his typewriter shop on Sixth Street when a Buick dealer working across the street came in and asked him, “How would you like to be an actor?”
It was 10 days before opening night of Bremerton Community Theatre’s latest play and the group needed a replacement for an actor who quit the show. Montgomery, who had never acted before, agreed to play Senator Hedges in “Born Yesterday.”
Bremerton medical marijuana patients who hoped to open a non-profit dispensary on Callow Avenue this month have postponed their plans, awaiting the outcome of state legislation that could clarify the rules for such an operation, if passed.
Meanwhile, the Bremerton city attorney has reported increased interest in operating medical marijuana dispensaries in the city and has denied two business license applications in the past couple weeks.
Currently, medical marijuana’s legality is complicated.
In Emily Wise’s green technology class at Bremerton High School Tuesday morning, students listened to a guest speaker from the Kitsap Conservation District discuss how rain gardens filter stormwater pollution and looked at a rain garden in the courtyard just outside their classroom.
In Emily Wise’s green technology class at Bremerton High School Tuesday morning, students listened to a guest speaker from the Kitsap Conservation District discuss how rain gardens filter stormwater pollution and looked at a rain garden in the courtyard just outside their classroom.
Kitsap County Democrats voted Tuesday night to forward two Poulsbo residents and a man from Bainbridge Island to fill departing County Commissioner Steve Bauer’s seat.
The finalists are Linda Berry-Maraist and Rob Gelder of Poulsbo and Clarence Moriwaki of Bainbridge Island.
Commissioners Josh Brown and Charlotte Garrido will choose Bauer’s replacement. The final decision will not likely be made until March 14, officials said.
The City of Bremerton may renegotiate its service contract with the Kitsap Humane Society in an effort that city officials hope will save the city money and place a greater emphasis on animal control.
The city pays more money per person to the Humane Society than every other city in Kitsap County — something Mayor Patty Lent wants to change, given that the Humane Society provides about the same service for each city, she said.
Barbara Martin, Olympic College’s vice president of administrative services, will leave her post next month to take a position with the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges.
Her resignation was announced by Olympic College President David Mitchell in a campus e-mail Feb. 9, which described the move as “a huge loss for Olympic College.”
When Archie Lee and a handful of family members decided to start a medical marijuana dispensary in Bremerton, they knew it wouldn’t be easy.
Herbal Healing, which Lee co-owns with four others, is currently operating a delivery service serving medical marijuana patients, but it is in the process of finding a building for the organization. The store will likely be on Callow Avenue, but it’s a difficult venture. Given the conflicting state and federal laws on the possession of medical marijuana, there are no laws that dictate how a dispensary in Bremerton should operate.
With gardening season approaching, sign-ups are underway for P-Patch plots at Blueberry Park in East Bremerton.
Right now the city is giving plots to returning gardeners and people on this year’s waiting list. The general public will be eligible to reserve plots starting the last week of February.
Susan Digby found two little feet jetting out from a dense pile of wet twigs on the beach near Old Mill Park on Monday.
“Will you look at that,” she said.
She pulled at one of the feet until the entire body surfaced, revealing a brown teddy bear wearing a Santa Claus costume. She propped it in a sitting position near a plastic crate, also washed up on the beach in Silverdale.
Tree roots from newly-logged trees are pulled up at the former Westpark site Tuesday near the corner of Kitsap Way and Arsenal Way. The logging taking place along the busy arterial in the past couple weeks is part of the clearing pr
A Google search of “Thursday in Bremerton” brought Sherman Anderson to the Hi-Fidelity Lounge’s jazz night last week.
Having moved to Bremerton a week earlier and grown up listening to jazz, he was looking for something to do.
