The Fathoms o’ Fun Festival will host its first Chocolate Festival with a ball on Friday, Nov. 8, along with a two-day Chocolate and Craft Vendor Show on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Port Orchard Pavilion on Bay Street.
A South Kitsap home that was built — with the help from the Extreme Home Makeover television show, Howland Homes and more than 2,000 volunteers — has come back to life and is back on the market, according to a local real estate agent.
A Suquamish Indian Fisheries Department employee found a dog that had been missing for several days in a ravine along Blackjack Creek.
South Kitsap School District officials are still monitoring the switch from trimesters to semesters at South Kitsap High School.
Before you go to bed Saturday night, remember to set your clocks back an hour as Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
With days left until the Nov. 5 general election, information from the Public Disclosure Commission shows that only a few local candidates have reported donations or money spent during their campaigns as of Oct. 29.
“We’re in the process of looking for a place,” Fulton said Oct. 30. “[The grant] was an answer to our prayers.”
John Charles Troiano Jr., 47, of Bremerton was arrested Oct. 26 after allegedly breaking into a home on Jefferson Point Road and running from a sheriff’s deputy investigating the scene.
A Kingston man, accused of raping another man using S&M tools in 2011, has been charged in Kitsap County District Court with first-degree rape.
A 14-year-old Ridgetop Junior High student left campus to smoke marijuana with friends. All three came back high to the campus.
The open house will be an opportunity for North Kitsap residents to learn about the proposed dock. Company representatives will make a presentation that includes an overview of the proposed dock, its location and its potential benefits to the community. A question and answer session will follow.
Bremerton Police Department detectives are asking for the public’s help to identify an armed robbery suspect.
More than 150 boxes of artifacts from an ancient Duwamish village site on what is now Port of Seattle-owned land could go to the Suquamish Museum. Peter McGraw, spokesman for the Port of Seattle, said Oct. 29 that the port is “still in discussions” with the Suquamish Tribe and the Muckleshoot Tribe and has not decided whether it will transfer ownership of the artifacts to one, or share the artifacts with both.
The meeting will be in the Hood Canal Vista Pavilion, 4740 NE View Drive. An open house starts at 5 p.m., followed by a presentation at 6 p.m. Public testimony will follow the presentation.
Volunteers are encouraged to come out to the event to help clean up the surrounding grounds of the Hospice care center in Bremerton.
KOMO 4 reports that the Defense Department’s Explosives Safety Board refused to give the Navy permission to build a second explosives handling wharf, but the Navy began construction anyway using a maneuver called “secretarial certification” and citing “no new increased risks.”
The Port of Poulsbo has previously heard support for its aims to annex areas around Liberty Bay. The sentiment was amplified at the port’s public hearing on the subject Oct. 25, though by only a handful of residents.
A Kingston man has been charged with allegedly placing a syringe in a sausage at Poulsbo’s Walmart. Daniel Oaks Thieman, 33, has been charged with malicious mischief and placing a harmful object in food.
Richard Gordon, the Kingston native who became one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, visited his namesake school — Gordon Elementary School — Oct. 28.
About $19,000 of meat products were removed from shelves at the Poulsbo Walmart after a syringe was discovered inserted into a sausage Friday, Oct. 25.