When foster kids move between homes, they often don’t have anything more than the clothes on their backs.
Teenagers already feel out of place often enough, never mind the pressure to fit in in a new school and town.
“What kids are wearing is very important to their self-esteem,” said Phyllis Bishop, a foster parent in Belfair.
After weeks of delays, the construction of the Manette Bridge’s replacement began Monday, kicking off a year-and-a-half-long project.
The Kitsap County Department of Community Development was the central point of contention among Central Kitsap commissioner candidates Thursday during a forum hosted by the Bremerton NAACP.
Supporters hoping a non-profit group will take over the Glenn Jarstad Aquatic Center in Bremerton are expected to submit a proposal to the city next week.
Two of downtown Bremerton’s one-way streets could become two-way, pending City Council approval.
Having grown up in Pensacola, Fla., sweeping neighbors’ front porches for a nickel and volunteering at her church since she was 8 years old, Bremerton City Councilwoman Dianne Robinson sees her 44 years of public service in Bremerton as something she was raised to do.
A new Silverdale library would get the greatest share of money if a levy increase on the November ballot passes.
The Kitsap Regional Library Board of Trustees voted 5-0 Tuesday to put a $3.65 million per year levy increase on this year’s general election ballot to help expand operating hours and pay for construction projects, such as a new library in Silverdale.
Hours before Matthew James Netter’s memorial Tuesday, people drove by the Timberland Bank on Bucklin Hill Road where he died, passengers calling, “We love you, Matt” out car windows. Friends arrived at the parking lot to write messages on the pavement, crying.
By 8 p.m., dozens of family and friends were gathered at the site, lighting candles, hugging and contributing to the growing number of tributes.
For Thomas Oliver and Jeffrey Chandler, taking their 8-year-old son Zyreal to the Kitsap Pride Festival on Saturday was just another family outing in the park.
“We’re just like an old married couple,” Oliver said of he and his partner, describing weekly church outings and dinners with grandma. “This is probably the most gay thing we do every year.”
When Brett Aho of Bremerton was asked in a second-grade class assignment where in the world he wanted to travel, he was expected to answer “Disney World,” like most of his other classmates at View Ridge Elementary.
After months of waiting for permits, the new Silverdale Dog Park is taking shape, working its way toward an August 14 grand opening.
Meanwhile, Silverdale dog owners are itching for the park where they could let their dogs roam free.
When John Slaughter served in the Navy on the USS Ranger from 1968 to 1970, he saw two of his fellow sailors die. He learned the value of teamwork. He trusted his life to those who worked around him and, in turn, worked to protect the lives of other sailors.
When Carol Wilkerson first moved to the Anderson Cove neighborhood in Bremerton about six years ago, she didn’t feel very safe.
It had a reputation for drug use. Neighbors had visitors coming and going at all hours. She didn’t want her 10-year-old son playing at Matan Park because of the fights and unruly people there.
Since joining the Women Build program last year, she has learned all the skills needed to construct new houses for low-income families and is now recruiting and teaching the techniques to women who come to construction sites as rookie builders. She is now assisting with the construction of an East Bremerton home, the second Women Build house in Kitsap County.
Standing tall on the Clear Creek Trail in Gateway Park, Tex Lewis, wearing his trademark feathered cowboy hat, greets the joggers running past.
County budget issues and potential transportation changes were debated Wednesday by Central Kitsap county commissioner candidates who answered audience-submitted questions in a Port Orchard forum.
With the Glenn Jarstad Aquatic Center written out of the Bremerton city budget, Parks and Recreation is working against the clock to pass it to another manager.
Under the hot sun last week, Marines ate hamburgers and baked beans with 150 young children, helped them open their milk cartons and played defense against 5-year-olds on the basketball court at the Emmanuel Apostolic Church.
Halfway to their goal of 2,500 signatures on a citizens’ initiative, Bremerton chicken activists are ramping up their efforts to pressure the City Council to legalize backyard hens in the city.
Robert Caires can tell the difference between the owner-occupied and rental homes in his neighborhood on Veneta Avenue.
The homeowners on the street take pride in their properties, he said, while most of the rental lots are in disarray. His renting neighbors, for example, don’t mow the lawn or pick up after the dogs, and the property smells like dog waste. He has called city code enforcement every two to three weeks to try to get the tenants or landlord to clean up the lot and keep animals quiet.