Attorneys for Kitsap County and the Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club met Tuesday with mediator Bill Joyce at the Washington Arbitration and Mediation Service in Seattle, to reach a negotiated resolution before the trial.
Seabeck residents had their power restored Monday and Tuesday after a power outage that affected 2,800 customers.
It’s hard to square the image of Jonathon “Ricco” Morales struggling to pick something up.
The 5-foot-4, 150-pound powerhouse, and Special Olympics weightlifter, has three national gold medals for doing just that, picking things up.
“He couldn’t pick up a penny,” said Gena Morales of her son’s physical therapy sessions when he was 4. “Now, he can lift 685 pounds combined weight.”
Ricco Morales still can’t grasp a penny. He struggles to conjure the motor skills necessary to wrap his fingers around small objects. Instead, he picks up much larger objects. And in doing so, he has realized a dream and defied early expectations of what kind of life he would lead.
Ricco Morales, 26, is a first alternate for the weightlifting team heading to the World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. He was born six weeks prematurely and sustained brain damage to the frontal lobe, resulting in delayed development of motor skills.
“When I lift the bar up, it feels like I conquered the world,” Ricco Morales said. “I guess sometimes it feels like I’m on cloud nine. Basically, it makes me feel that I’ve completed all my accomplishments. I like knowing how much I can push myself with the weights.”
From what she heard early on, his mother didn’t know what to expect.
Laurie Shaw spent Monday night tossing and turning in bed, unable to get a wink of sleep.
The Olympic High School girls basketball coach was too excited to doze off. Like a kid the night before going to Disneyland, she was already thinking about what’s to come.
Her Lady Trojans squad defeated Kingston High School 44-42 last Monday at Curtis High School (Tacoma) to punch their first ticket to the Class 2A state tournament in 16 years.
Lauren Richardson is going out on top.
The Bremerton High School senior wrestler bested rival Kiana Witt of Kingston High School at the Tacoma Dome Feb. 19 for the girls 112-pound state title at Mat Classic XXIII. Richardson took the state championship with a 6-3 victory.
It would be their first and last time competing against each other at state, and it was Richardson who claimed gold for the second time in her four-year career with the Knights. The two have wrestled each other since they competed for clubs at the age of 7.
Richardson won a state title her freshman year, becoming
In Emily Wise’s green technology class at Bremerton High School Tuesday morning, students listened to a guest speaker from the Kitsap Conservation District discuss how rain gardens filter stormwater pollution and looked at a rain garden in the courtyard just outside their classroom.
A young child from Bremerton was taken to Harrison Medical Center Wednesday for neck and back pain after the Kitsap Transit bus he was in was rear-ended on State Highway 303.
Kitsap County Democrats voted Tuesday night to forward two Poulsbo residents and a man from Bainbridge Island to fill departing County Commissioner Steve Bauer’s seat.
The finalists are Linda Berry-Maraist and Rob Gelder of Poulsbo and Clarence Moriwaki of Bainbridge Island.
Commissioners Josh Brown and Charlotte Garrido will choose Bauer’s replacement. The final decision will not likely be made until March 14, officials said.
Club Gemini to become sports bar under new management
Club Gemini is under new management and in the process of becoming a daytime sports bar.
Michael and Amberly Hill took over the bar, at 4111 Wheaton Way, about three weeks ago.
It smelled, but they couldn’t really complain since they were the cause of it. So they rolled up their sleeves, donned face masks and carried on.
“It’s nasty,” said Drake Ballou, a sixth grader at Cougar Valley Elementary School, contemplating a pile of the school’s trash. “But, it’ll help.”
Central Kitsap School District construction levy
Thanks from the school board
On behalf of the students, staff and parents of Central Kitsap School District, we would like to thank our community for its support of the district’s capital projects levy. Providing $58 million in loc
Figuring out the boundaries for a proposed incorporated Silverdale will be more difficult than playing “eeny, meeny, miny, moe,” especially for those who live along the Silverdale urban growth area boundaries.
“We understand the passion they have for their community, but we have the same passion for the city of Poulsbo,” said Jim Gillard, 37, who
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Central Kitsap High School received a 2011 Washington Achievement Award for Closing Achievement Gaps, according to a statement Tuesday from the Central Kitsap School District.
Exercise Solid Curtain/Citadel Shield 2011 will be conducted on naval bases and installations throughout Navy Region Northwest from Feb. 21 to 25.
A Silverdale woman was arrested for assaulting her husband and biting through her 12-year-old son’s ear Feb. 5 after coming home drunk.
Two rush-hour collisions slowed traffic Wednesday evening in Bremerton and Central Kitsap, with no serious injuries.
Some athletes listen to music before taking the field.
Some write inspirational messages on their uniforms and shoes.
And some swimmers, hoping to trim seconds off their times, take a different approach.
They get together in hotel rooms and shave their bodies bare.
“It’s more than a tradition, but it’s also a prerequisite for swimming,” Central Kitsap swimmer Jason Soria said. “You’ve got to
The culmination of the high school wrestling season is finally here, and for seniors, it’s likely the last time they will strap on head gear.
The 23rd Mat Classic state tournament runs Friday and Saturday at the Tacoma Dome, featuring the best grapplers in Washington vying for gold. All four teams in Central Kitsap and Bremerton will compete this weekend, and for some, it’s their last chance for the top crown.
When Tim Baker has a hankering for a healthy hike and a viewpoint of Seattle, he doesn’t hesitate to visit his favorite mountain bike trail at Green Mountain.
Although North Kitsap gets most of the attention for mountain bike trails, Baker feels at home peddling through the Central Kitsap wilderness.
Baker is the vice president at the West Sound Cycling Club in