Abby Carey, 18, along with other students at Central Kitsap High School are helping to raise money to help the people of Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
It all began when he couldn’t catch a ball while coaching his son’s youth basketball team.
“I just couldn’t catch it,” Kurt Spitzer, 56, said. “All of a sudden my body felt dead. I couldn’t feel.”
The East Bremerton man’s first suspicion was that his loss of sensation and lack of motor skills were a side effect of his diabetes. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was 15 years old. However, this was something entirely different.
The Kitsap Regional Coordinating Council Board Meeting that was held March 22 is available for view on Bremerton Kitsap Access Television at 1:30 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Monday and 10 p.m. Tuesday.
An 18-year-old East Bremerton man was arrested March 21 for stealing and attempting to sell a webcam from Walmart.
Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies were called to the Walmart on State Highway 303 in East Bremerton at 10:59 a.m. on reports of a the
A 184-foot Verizon Wireless cell tower has been approved for a 2.45-acre area on Newberry Hill in Central Kitsap, according to documents from Kitsap County. The tower will be located at the corner of NW Newberry Hill Road and Seabeck Highway NW, near a convenience store and gas station. The purpose of the new
Citizens United for Silverdale, the group pushing for cityhood, has decided on a proposed boundary and will begin the process with the county.
Backers of the plan hope to have the proposal for voters by spring 2012.
A public information meeting is scheduled for March 29 from 7 to 8 p.m. at fire station #51, 10955 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale.
People may not catch their dinner or vanquish a foe with spears anymore, but some high school students make it a part of their everyday lives.
The javelin throw, mainstay of track and field, harkens back to the earliest organized sports competition in the western world. Originally used for hunting and warfare, it is a prehistoric skill developed by foot soldiers and those looking for a meal.
Now, the two-and-a-half meter long spe
Edward Jones employee earns professional designation
Jason Skifstad of Edward Jones in Silverdale has earned the professional designation of Accredited Asset Management Specialist, the firm announced in a statement.
Skifstad completed the Accred-ited Asset Manage-ment Specialist Profes-sional Education Program from the Denver-based College for Financial Planning. Those who complete the program pass a final exam and sign a code of ethics and disclosure form to earn the special designat
Tracyton Community Library book sale:
The Tracyton Community Library will have a book sale from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 30 and 31. Bags and boxes of books will be sold from $1 to $5. The sale will help support the all-volunteer non-tax supported library located at 351 NW Tracy Ave., Bremerton.
Want to watch the Final Four on a big screen, with a beer, with other fans and not have to find a babysitter?
The Admiral Theatre, with a 40-foot screen and a full bar, is providing a unique viewing party to one of the pinnacles of college athletics.
Tim Lavin, Admiral Theatre’s director of financing, announced last week that the venue will host two Final Four parties with free admission to all ages. He said Monday that providing primetime NCAA tournament basketball to Kitsap County will serve the theater’s purpose as a community venue, while also bringing fans together to watch a big screen version of the hardwood classic.
The 2011 All-Kitsap County Boys Basketball Team was compiled by the sports writers for the Bremerton Patriot, the Central Kitsap Reporter, the North Kitsap Herald, Bainbridge Island Review and the Port Orchard Independent.
Candidates for the team are nominated by the writers for their respective areas. The nominees are then voted on by the writers; the top players make the teams. Honorable mentions are also selected from each school for each sport.
The teams include the best players from area schools that not only performed well individually, but played a role in the success of their team.
About 20 homes were struck by a vehicle in the Ridgetop neighborhood of Silverdale in the early morning March 18, with damage to their garage doors and, in many cases, the vehicles inside the garages.
A Gig Harbor man was left bleeding from his head March 18 after being punched at the Old Town Tavern in Silverdale.
Jennifer Erichsen, a student at Emerald Heights Elementary School in Silverdale, spends most nights awake past her bedtime reading in her room. For a girl who loves reading chapter books, she is more than excited for a published author to visit her class.
“I’m mostly excited and just a bit nervous,” Jennifer, 8, said last week. “I get nervous when I meet new people.”
He started when he was about 16 years old and has never stopped. Although some cringe at the thought of donating blood, it’s become part of a routine for 62-year-old Leonard Newsom of East Bremerton.
“It’s important because not everyone can do it,” Newsom said. “At some point you may need it.”
A 32-year-old Silverdale man was arrested for a hit-and-run and theft March 6 after rear-ending a vehicle in the Kitsap Mall parking lot and stealing the notebook a victim used to record his information.
A 25-year-old Central Kitsap woman was arrested March 10 for obstructing law enforcement and possessing methamphetamine after deputies tried to detain her for outstanding warrants.
Recovering from four painful back surgeries, Bill Armstrong wants to go back to school and work again, so he’s pumping iron – at 1 a.m. Tuesday.
Armstrong, a Bremerton native, works out at Anytime Fitness in Silverdale three times a week in the middle of the night because that’s the time he feels most comfortable in the gym. He plans to study to become a biomedic technician, and in order to work full-time again, Armstrong has to exercise to fulfill that goal. For Armstrong, working out late means avoiding inevitable, and discouraging, comparisons with those in better physical shape.
Strolling into the Bremerton YMCA last week with a bright gold Lakers jersey and wide smile, I had all the confidence in the world.
My shoes were tied tight, undershirt tucked and hands ready to deal the biggest win of H.O.R.S.E. of my life. All that was missing was a matching headband to honor my hero, the fictional Los Angeles based journalist, Fletch, who also conjures up his own delusions of playing NBA basketball.