When something looks off, it usually is off. This past week, on a very normal Tuesday night at the Smidt house, text messages arrived to both of the Blackberry phones in our house with the following text: “Federal Credit Union Alert: Your Visa Card has been placed on hold.”
Four candidates are vying to represent Central Kitsap on the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners, but only two can advance to the general election in November.
Cassie Holden would be 34 years old today — perhaps the mother of a young daughter herself — if she…
As it should be, the Kitsap County budget is a major topic in the campaigns of candidates for county commissioner….
The North Kitsap School District was going to have a conversation in private but common sense prevailed. At 5 p.m….
Traveling through the great state of Washington for the past five days on our family vacation was a wonderful experience filled with new adventures that delighted all the senses.
We are told to never forget, but those born before the late ‘90s don’t have a story of when they first heard the news.
A fifth-grader today doesn’t remember being called to the television, or calling friends and family across the country, or walking around in a fog for the rest of that warm, blue-skied, beautiful day.
If we allow ourselves to remember correctly, we were afraid.
At first blush, the Port of Bremerton’s newly announced deal to lease 7,200 square feet of space in the Olympic View Industrial Park to Portsmouth, Va.-based Earl Industries looks like a winner for the region.
I am continually amazed at the creative ways that our state Legislature generates more revenue (taxes). Case in point, I…
While most local jurisdictions are doing more with fewer employees and fewer financial resources, one agency is standing alone. The…
It’s been almost four decades since the party known as Whaling Days started.
Much has changed. Instead of farm land there is a mall. A new, state-of-the-art YMCA is being built.
It may be just the size of the thing, but the USS Ranger is a majestic sight, parked on Bremerton’s front lawn like a decommissioned El Dorado.
Tis the season, the campaign season, that is. Practically overnight a forest of brightly colored, cleverly-scripted campaign signs have sprung up along roadways, at street corners and in the landscaped medians running between the lanes of travel. Anywhere people have a tendency to congregate in a public environment, th
Metro park district is the right move for Kingston
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” — William Shakespeare Macbeth: Act 1, scene 4 Similarly, nothing…
Jason Mercier and Carl Gipson’s July 17 Guest Opinion (“Yes, we can replace B&O tax”) offers a great many options…
For the moment, homeowners and prospective homebuyers appear to have dodged major cost increases from new energy code regulations being…
It began with the lowest of lows June 28 after finding out the Warren Avenue Pee Wee Clubhouse had been broken into and more than $800 of fireworks needed for fundraising were stolen.
