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Lighted boat parades Dec. 9 in Port Orchard, Dec. 16 in Poulsbo

POULSBO — The Port Orchard Lighted Boat Parade will take place on Dec. 9.

Victoria Detrick takes a break from unpacking her belongings at her new apartment she was able to secure with the help of North Kitsap Fishline.                                Leslie Kelly/Kitsap News Group

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Fishline helps local woman find a home

POULSBO — Without North Kitsap Fishline, Victoria Detrick would still be living in her van.

Having fun, helping others and being good citizens | Kingston Kiwanis

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Having fun, helping others and being good citizens | Kingston Kiwanis

As we close in on the holiday season, our

Every day was Christmas for Billie T. Johnson | Kingston Strand

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Every day was Christmas for Billie T. Johnson | Kingston Strand

What is the Christmas spirit? Generally, it means opening our hearts, spreading joy and kindness, and being charitable…

Be a link in the chain of survival | NKF&R Update

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Be a link in the chain of survival | NKF&R Update

In early November, we were honored with a

<em>The “Puppets Please Marionettes” starring Santa and his gang will be at Greater Hansville Community Center’s Children’s Christmas Party. </em>Shirley McManus/Courtesy photo

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North-end holiday highlights | Hansville Happenings

The brightest light in the night sky this month will be 2017’s only supermoon, on Dec. 3 weather…

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Poulsbo Community Orchestra’s Holiday Concert Dec. 3

POULSBO — Maestro Mario Torres will conduct the Poulsbo Community Orchestra in its annual Fishline Holiday Concert, 3…

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Santa announces neighborhood visit schedule

POULSBO — Poulsbo Fire Department will escort Santa Claus on a visit of local neighborhoods in December. Here’s…

David Mitchell joined Olympic College as president in 2002. At the end of the year, he’s retiring.                                Michelle Beahm / Kitsap News Group

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Olympic College’s Mitchell: Supportive community made being president ‘a lot of fun’

BREMERTON — “I’ve had a great time working at this college,” said David Mitchell, who retires at year-end…

Bird watchers out for the count |Kitsap Birding

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Bird watchers out for the count |Kitsap Birding

Following a 118-year-old Audubon holiday tradition, scores of Kitsap bird watchers will be spending two full days in…

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Saints Car Club helps during the holidays

PORT ORCHARD — The Saints Car Club stepped up this holiday season to serve more than 1,200 families…

Suzanne O’Clair

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Moon-walking backwards, a black hole and the holidays: Oh, My! | Stars Over Kitsap

Once you’ve gone as deep as you can go, you want to go as high as you can…

Visits to local tree farms are part of the season.                                Kitsap News Group file photo

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Finding that perfect (local) tree

It’s just a few weeks until Santa comes down that chimney. Make sure he’ll be impressed when he…

Bob Carter repaired the 600 lights that decorate the Tracyton Community Tree.                                Michelle Beahm / Kitsap News Group

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600 lights for the Tracyton Community Tree

Santa Claus coming to town 6 p.m. Dec. 3

Donna Lee Anderson

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“Writing on the Landscape” can help with writer’s block | Bookends

Writers use all kinds of ways to help themselves get past that dreaded writers-block which seems to afflict…

Pages from my mother’s journal and a memory book I gave her.

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Things I never knew my mother kept | Parenting Parents

Term papers from the 1950s. Her father’s Bible. And every card she ever got.

Lone Hansen straightens PAL fellow members hangings at Central Markets upstairs cafe.

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Making Poulsbo brighter one painting at a time

POULSBO — Local artists are making Poulsbo more colorful.

Volunteers stirng lights for the annual festivities.

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It takes a village to put on Kitsap County’s biggest light show

KINGSTON — At 5 p.m. Dec. 2, Santa Claus will say the magic words and turn Kingston’s marina…

Saints drop off Christmas tree at City Hall

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Saints drop off Christmas tree at City Hall

PORT ORCHARD — The Saints Car Club is all about fast vehicles most of the year. But the…

The land on which Old Mill Park now stands was once owned by Anders and Anna Nelson, who arrived in Silverdale from Seabeck before 1909. (Central Kitsap History Club)

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Old Mill Park/Westfall-Schneebeck Lumber Company | Past & Present

The land on which Old Mill Park now stands was once owned by Anders and Anna Nelson, who…