Thought you might enjoy this report from Max Lipset, a member of the Kitsap Pumas who is currently playing soccer and soaking up the culture in La Paz, Bolivia. Lipset has signed to play another year with the Pumas. Here’s his report, which ...
By Chris Henry
chenry@kitsapsun.com
PORT ORCHARD
It’s official. There will be a recount in the race for Port Orchard City Council Position 2.
In official results, posted Monday afternoon by the Kitsap County Auditor’s office, incumbent Carolyn...
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I think by now many of you are ready to catch your breath: windstorms, rainstorms, thunderstorms, funnel clouds, hail, flooding, heavy mountain sno...
The Bainbridge Graduate Institute is on the lookout for a campus of its own.
Possibly on Bainbridge, but also possibly in Poulsbo, Seattle or Port Gamble.
BGI board member Dal LaMagna (an interesting guy in his own right) is leading the effort t...
News updates on area high schools, including North Kitsap, Central Kitsap, Olympic, Bremerton, South Kitsap, Bainbridge and North Mason high schools. By Sun sports staff writers Chuck Stark, Jeff Graham, Annette Griffus and Nathan Joyce.
Washington cross country runners swept the Border Clash, the annual competition pitting the top runners from Washington and Oregon. Central Kitsap’s Shane Moskowitz, who won Washington’s Class 4A state championship two weeks ago, won t...
Music journalist Travis Hay drops some knowledge and insight about local and national music news, offers reviews and offers a place for conversation on all things music.
*photos by Steven Friederich
Them Crooked Vultures should consider billing themselves as the second coming of the Monsters of Rock.
Sure Monsters of Rock was a long-running festival that featured several groups and TCV are just one band, but thi...
This from our friend Ron Reid at Comedy Underground:
After 18 shows, the five finalists have been chosen in the 30th Annual Seattle International Comedy Competition. In alphabetical order, they are Paul Hooper (Charlotte), Sean Kent (Austin), ...
Photographer Carolyn Yaschur and videographer Derek Sheppard keep you up-to-date, give some behind-the-scenes scoops, and provide you tips to help you take better photos and videos.
It’s nice to see a happy story come out of the Kitsap County Courthouse. I spent a couple of years roaming those halls as a courts and cops reporter, and have seen my fair share of unhappy events unfold there. But this is about something h...
The in basket: I was alarmed Thursday night when I suddenly ran over something in westbound Mile Hill Drive right at the Long Lake Road traffic signal.
Neither my wife nor I had seen anything in the road. The sudden bump didn’t seem severe...
“Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss turns out to be a great piece of music to accompany this wonderful video footage of Yellowstone geysers taken by Russ Finley.
I found some video of a totally different kind of geyser, which is amusing with or w...
It’s that time of year again. It is the time of year our we lose our minds.
No?
Cooking, and list-making, and cooking, and present planning (or shopping if you are on the ball like that and I hate you), card sending and pie buying making.
No...
Earlier this month I took in a portion of the bobsled training that was going on at Whistler, B.C. all of the world’s best sliders were there, trying to figure out the wicked turns while traveling at speeds that would get you or I about a st...
Former Washington football assistant and recruiting coordinator Dick Baird ‹ a member of the Huskies' radio broadcast team ‹ shares his insights and thoughts about Husky football.
It doesn’t matter what the records are and this year that’s a good thing because when the 3-7 Huskies host the 1-10 Cougars anything can happen. Last year I knew the Huskies hadn’t won a game but after looking at tapes of ...
Daily updates on the local economy, the latest reports and trends that affect us, stories, events and columns. Join the conversation with Kitsap Sun reporter Rachel Pritchett.
By Rachel Pritchett
rpritchett@kitsapsun.com
BREMERTON
Willow, the beloved dog and constant companion of homelessness author Richard LeMieux has died.
The 13-year-old bichon frise succumbed Saturday morning following cancer surgery Friday in a Lyn...
The Salvation Army at 832 Sixth St. in downtown Bremerton, is having a fund raiser tomorrow, Saturday Nov. 21st from Noon to 2 pm. Pay what you can; if you can give more, please do as TSA is an anchor in our community – the super glue that...
Anyone who would want to overturn Bremerton’s potential spending increases should contact city and other sources for specifics about the rules for a referendum. What we have here are the basics as I understand them.
Here’s the outline:...
One of Washington’s courts of appeals has ruled that residents fired for using medical marijuana cannot sue their former employer.
The case came from a Kitsap woman who got a job at TeleTech in East Bremerton. “Jane Roe” was fir...
Joel Connelly at Seattlepi.com writes about it.
Here is the Public Policy Polling site, which shows that 52 percent of Republican voters and 26 percent of the overall voting public think Barack Obama won the election because ACORN stole it from Jo...
A forum where you can discuss all those questions that get asked in teachers’ lounges, around dining room tables and before school boards across Kitsap County. With Marietta Nelson.
The Bremerton School Board has scheduled a special meeting on Monday beginning at 5:30 p.m. to discuss problems with the high school track.
The agenda sent to me Thursday indicates the board will meet in closed session with legal counsel to discus...
The space next to The Manette (formerly the Manette Saloon) is going from martinis to meats.
The Bremerton Patriot reported (yeah, I got scooped, but in my defense, I’ve been working on the Sun’s site) Thursday that Henry’s Deli ...
OK, forgive me for this one. I’ve been frustrated at not finding a way to link up with something, and so I thought I’d use my blog to ask all of you for suggestions.
I am an amateur wood worker. I’ve never taken any classes or wo...
Looks like the “Buy Local for Thanksgiving” campaign is gaining traction. There is a cool article about it in the Poulsbo Life section of the Sun http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/nov/18/say-thanks-local-foods/. To read more abou...
League President Catherine Ahl displays "No State Income Tax" sign brought by some attendees at the League's forum at the Eagle's Nest in Bremerton on Wednesday.
From left, Rep. Sherry Appleton, Rep. Larry Seaquist and Sen. Derek...
This is a patient to patient blog to exchange information and resources...from COPD to Arthritis to Cellulites to Sarcoidosis to Sleep Apnea to RLS to Psoriasis to Support Groups to Caregivers and all points in between.
WORLD COPD DAY CELEBRATION 2009 is tomorrow!
The University of Washington’s School of Nursing, Pam Wiseman is the speaker and will be in Silverdale, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 to speak in honor of World COPD Day.
Harrison Medical Center will h...
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This special second podcast features an extensive Kitsap Sports Update from ISPN Sports and Kevin Mac. Please be sure to check it out and see how South Kitsap and Central Kitsap did in the state high school p...
Ah, another week, another viral video on the net. This time it is a double header with a college womens soccer game in Utah and a girls high school contest in Rhode Island.
The latter shows the frustration we often see from athletes when the game ...
A couple of our readers suggested that we make it easier to find out what happened in past days.
We’ve done a couple of things to address that:
We added a “Today” link under our News heading in the navigation. It works similarly ...
I’ll be gone over the next week on a deer hunting trip in Montana, so there will be subsequently be no posts during that time. I therefore like to take the opportunity to have the readers weigh in.
If you have any questions, comments, feedba...
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Citizen Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for tonight has been canceled because not enough committee members were available to make a quorum. The meeting has not been rescheduled.
It was the first of three public meet...
In case you missed it, I wrote a column on Nathan Adrian when he was in town for the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame. Adrian is in his junior year at Cal.
The school also recently honored its national champions, which included Adrian, and you can read ...
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