The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Department has suspended its search for Brandon Lee Blanford and hopes someone can provide information leading to Blanford’s whereabouts. The man’s parents assume their son is dead, that he walked into the waters of Admiralty Inlet the evening of Dec. 11 and let the frigid waters take his life.
In 2012, Peninsula Community Health Services expects to have taken care of 25,000 patients in 80,000 visits, providing 24-hour on-call care for low-income, uninsured and underinsured residents at four locations.
There will be some surprises in store when the Steppenwolf Experience takes the stage at One Ten Lounge on Front Street in Poulsbo New Year’s Eve.
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s Heronswood Gardens hosts weddings for same-gender couples as Referendum 74 takes effect.
Phil and Andrea Holt said they felt uneasy when the rain fell after the Nov. 19 storm caused a sewer main to overflow and flood their basement for the second time in five years. It appears they and their neighbors can rest a little easier.
North Kitsap School Board member Scott Henden said he can’t accept the Suquamish Tribe’s sovereignty. And his views contributed to the postponement Nov. 8 of an interagency agreement regarding the Suquamish Tribe’s Chief Kitsap Academy, a school that offers the district’s Native students culturally based classes for which they can earn college credit.
The hefty, 983-page book is important for the current generation, Laura Price told the crowd gathered Wednesday in the Port Gamble S’Klallam longhouse.
Couple’s basement flooded twice since 2007. And they’re afraid it could happen again
On a webisode produced by the Sheckler Foundation, Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe anthropologist Josh Wisniewski talks of looking out his office window daily and seeing young people riding skateboards, inline skates or bikes “with no real place to go to ride them and express themselves in their creativity.” That’s about to change.
When it was time to awaken the Norseman, the 12-foot giant seemed to take on a life of its own Friday. Project coordinator Bill Austin and Miss Poulsbo Michaela Meeker pulled the rope that released the Norseman’s shroud, but the covering over his head was problematic, as if the giant was yet ready to be awakened. Then, fully revealed, he looked like he might step down from his concrete platform to join – or rule – the crowd. Viking horns sounded, adding to the excitement of the moment.
Rents were paid. Utilities were kept on. Families had food to eat. People who needed it got transportation to and from medical appointments and work.
As you know, a lot of people are having a tough time this year. Volunteers and staff members at Fishline and parishioners at St. Olaf’s Church are working hard to make sure those neighbors have what they need to feed their families at Thanksgiving. Those neighbors will pick up those neatly organized boxes this week. The generosity of each donor is clear in each box. But each box has a much bigger, more beautiful story to tell.
Larry Thoreen wasn’t surprised when the results were announced that J’aime Les Crêpes was voted best creperie in the region.
Three people — including a couple known for fostering children and helping people overcome addictions — died Nov. 14 in a two-car head-on collision on Highway 104 near Balmoral Place NE in Kingston.
UPDATE: Three people — including a couple known for fostering children and helping people overcome addictions — died Nov. 14 in a two-car head-on collision on Highway 104 near Balmoral Place NE in Kingston.
Suzan DelBene is expected to take office Tuesday as Kitsap County’s representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. DelBene won the special election Nov. 6 to succeed Jay Inslee, who resigned March 20 to run for governor. Inslee’s resignation left Kitsap without a congressional representative for almost eight months.
September median home prices in Kitsap County were the fifth-highest in Western Washington, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which tracks real estate data in 21 counties.
Linda Simpson said she got some good feedback as she campaigned for County Commission, District 2. But her favorite was in Hansville, when an older gentleman asked her if her birthday was on the Fourth of July because “you’re just a firecracker.” “We chatted for a bit. He said, ‘I swore I’d never vote for a Republican, but you put a chink in my armor,’” Simpson recalled.
County Commissioner Rob Gelder, D-District 1, was on his way to a full term Tuesday, leading with 39,448 votes to Republican Chris Tibbs’ 31,883 as of 8:10 p.m. Earlier in the day, in a break in a meeting on housing, Gelder was hopeful of winning a four-year term.
As you read this, some 12 adoption counselors and 40 foster homes are caring for and trying to find permanent homes for kittens and cats in Bainbridge and North Kitsap.