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The Prep Beat

News updates on area high schools. By Sun sports staff writers Chuck Stark, Jeff Graham, Annette Griffus and Nathan Joyce.

The Prep Beat: Four Wolves named All-Narrows League for baseball

Four South Kitsap Wolves were named to the All-Narrows League 4A baseball team. The Sablan twins, Alex and Vince, along with Michael Nelson and Michael Wood. All-Narrows League 4A MVP—Cabe Reiten, sr., Olympia Pitcher of the year—Nick Gagliard...
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Kitsap Crime and Justice

Josh Farley, the public safety and courts reporter, writes about crime and criminal justice issues.

Kitsap Crime and Justice: Reporter’s Notebook: Bainbridge civil rights trial continues; plea in assisting trooper’s killer?

It continues to be a busy week for crime and justice news in Kitsap County. Today, the federal civil rights trial Ostling vs. Bainbridge Island continues, with Officer David Portrey and William Ostling taking the witness stand. William’s son, Do...
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Kitsap Business and Economy

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.

Kitsap Business and Economy: Those Kitsap gas prices just won’t stop going higher

Readers, The average price for a gallon of unleaded today, Wednesday, stood at $4.20, up 15 cents from a week ago. That not so far off from the all-time record for high prices, which hit locally on June 21, 2008, when the price rose to $4.50. Dies...
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Watching Our Water Ways

Environmental reporter Christopher Dunagan discusses the challenges of protecting Puget Sound and all things water-related.

Watching Our Water Ways: Deadly blow to orca: blast or glancing impact?

Numerous tests focused on a dead killer whale have so far failed to determine whether the fatal injury was caused by an underwater explosion or possibly a glancing blow, such as from a boat or even another animal. L-112 in happier times. The 3-y...
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Road Warrior

Travis Baker blogs about the problems and idiosyncrasies of Kitsap highways and byways.

Road Warrior: Teenage drivers are limited for first year after getting a license

The in basket: When I was just out of high school, I was driving my dad’s old Chevy station wagon with three friends with me, leaving a round of golf at what was then Clover Valley Golf Course in South Kitsap. As we approached Sedgwick Road on L...
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Cheers To You

An exploration of all things wine with reporter Brynn Grimley and local wine expert Mary Earl.

Cheers To You: What we’re drinking: Maryhill Red

Mary writes: Looking for an affordable red wine blend from Washington? There’s plenty out there to try, but as we know when you’re standing in the grocery store aisle looking at the vast selection it can be a little overwhelming — especially...
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Peabody: Life, Friends Baseball

Plain talk about Sabremetrics baseball analysis and love of the game.

Peabody: Life, Friends Baseball: Wedge Unleashed

There is a couple of ways to look at the last few days and I am going to take the time to pursue one way. There seems to be counter points playing around inside of Wedge’s mind right now. Whether it is his music or several melodies placed there ...
Reader Blog

Humanity is like a Patchwork Quilt

Each patchwork piece contributes to holding the quilt together, yet each is unique.

Humanity is like a Patchwork Quilt: Bike to Work Day is Friday May 18th

One of the many aspects of diversity is how we each get to work – many of us take the bus, others drive, carpool or vanpool.  Then there are the bicycle commuters – A hardy group of folks that bicycle to work for a variety of reasons....
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Pumas Insider

Sports reporter Jeff Graham provides the inside scoop on Kitsap's professional soccer team.

Pumas Insider: Pumas/Cal FC Open Cup: Cal FC 3, Pumas 1 Final

The Kitsap Pumas are about to begin their first round U.S. Open Cup game against Cal FC at Bremerton Memorial Stadium. Look for updates on Facebook at Kitsap Pumas Insider. Danny Barrera gets the only goal in the first half in the 44th minute. Kit...
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Kitsap Caucus

A blog about politics and government in Kitsap County as well as Washington state political news as it relates to Kitsap County.

Kitsap Caucus: Kitsap GOP approve delegates after brief, but testy, drama

Kitsap Republicans will have a full slate of delegates and alternates when they go to the state party convention on May 31 in Tacoma. County party members met for a second time on Saturday and completed the voting process that stopped prematurely ...
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Wide World of Kitsap Sports

Dedicated to following the athletes and teams that call West Sound home.

Wide World of Kitsap Sports: Bremerton’s Adrian meets First Lady, learns to salsa and flies a helicopter

It’s been a busy last few weeks for Bremerton’s Nathan Adrian, America’s best hope for winning a medal in the sprint freestyle at the Olympic in London this summer. Adrian, a panelist at the United States Olympic Committee Summit in Dallas M...
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Side Street News

A blog written by Sally Santana.

Side Street News: THE UNFORGOTTEN, RUN TO TAHOMA III MEMORIAL SERVICE

This takes place Saturday, May 26, 2012, 10:45 a.m. On that day, we will receive the remains of departed veterans currently under the care of the Kitsap County Coroner and transport them to Tahoma National Cemetery. Prior to departure, we will cel...
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Milt Priggee’s Kitsap Commentary

Milt Priggee is a longtime editorial cartoonist, and over his career has drawn for Crain’s Chicago Business, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Puget Sound Business Journal and seattlepi.com. He lives and works on Whidbey Island, producing cartoons for newspapers around the state and country. See more of his work at www.miltpriggee.com.
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Peninsular Thinking

A conversation about Bremerton, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, Silverdale, Bainbridge Island, Kingston, Manchester, Seabeck, Southworth, Suquamish, Belfair, Keyport, Olalla, Bangor, Hansville, Indianola, Port Gamble, Allyn, Port Ludlow, Gig Harbor and every once in a while something about the good folks who don't have the good fortune to live here.

Peninsular Thinking: Coffee vendor coming to Manchester dock

Boaters in Manchester will soon be able to fuel up on caffeine as they launch at the Manchester dock. The Port of Manchester Board of Commissioners has given approval for a coffee and muffin vendor to sell her wares from the early morning to mid-a...
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Kitsap Frames

Meegan M. Reid keeps you up-to-date, gives some behind-the-scenes scoops, shares photos from the Kitsap Sun Staff (and readers) and provides you with a few tips to help you take better photos.

Kitsap Frames: FRAMES: Photo of the Day: The Lighthouse Keeper

The coolest part of my job…well okay ONE of the coolest things about my job, is that I get to go places and see things that the general public doesn’t usually get to see. Hence was the case this week when writer Amy Phan and I ventured to Hans...
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The Stark Truth

Sports Editor Chuck Stark shares insight, laughter, news, views and analysis of Kitsap sports and beyond.

The Stark Truth: ‘Hey, let’s go play 12′ and is it time to bring back leather helmets?

‘Hey, let’s go play 12′ Really enjoyed listening to golf architect John Harbottle III talk about what he did during his re-model at White Horse Golf Club, and also what he had to say about the state of the game. “There are no really new id...
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Honoring Equity And Respecting Tradition (HEART)

An informative source of information dealing with issues and people from our Faith Community.

Honoring Equity And Respecting Tradition (HEART): Kicking Addiction

THE LATTER GLORY HOUSE You are invited to join us this Friday, May 11th at 7:00. David Sheldon is our guest speaker. David was bound by an addiction to heroin for approximately three years. In June of 2011 he came to the end of himself and went...
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Kitsap A&E

Arts and Entertainment reporter Michael Moore eventually takes a break from his perpetually growing agenda of attending the plays, concerts, openings and other gigs that make up the West Sound's nightlife scene. And when he does, he'll share a bit of what's come across his desk or gone through his mind here on this blog.

Kitsap A&E: Lascelles’ film to screen in Columbia Basin festival

Former North Kitsap resident Debora Lascelles is the director of the film “Upon Release,” which has been named an official selection to the Columbia Basin International Film Festival Aug. 15 to 19 in Vancouver, Wash. Lascelles, who began her f...
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Bainbridge Conversation

Reporter Tristan Baurick engages island residents in a conversation about their community.

Bainbridge Conversation: VIDEO: Scotch Broom Festival blooms again

After a decade-long dormancy, the island’s legendary Scotch Broom Festival bloomed again on Wednesday. Born in the ’60s, the free-spirited celebration began fading out after it got “too formal, too organized” in the late ’90s, according...
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The Commute

An informative and entertaining discussion on our ferries and highways with Kitsap Sun reporters.

The Commute: Ferry must pass wake tests before service plans can begin

People find it illogical that Kitsap Transit plans to run 35-minute service between Bremerton and Seattle for five months and then shut it down, but that’s the way it is. Transit has been saying it. I’ve been writing it. But Tuesday, even the ...
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Sea Life

Explore aquatic animals, plants and seaweeds that inspire everything from cinematic monsters to tasty dishes to local economies.

Sea Life: “Ocean Frontiers”: Working together can really work!

Ocean Frontiers doesn’t have a dragonfly inspired alien or a mutant invasive snakehead fish (I love that stuff!), but it is an opportunity to see some inspiring examples of how stakeholders with very different interests can address issues in oce...
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The WordSpider

A blog about reading and writing

The WordSpider: Open Book

Reading aloud is the best way I know to find the clogged places in a story’s flow, or identify awkward bits of dialogue.  Writing teachers urge us to test our work thus, especially poetry, and I’ve always endorsed the idea.  I just n...
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Rougheart MMA Journal

Joshua Beranis covers the mixed martial arts scene in Kitsap County and beyond.

Rougheart MMA Journal: Observing the MMA

It is good to have an empty table in front of yourself when you think about how this sport is surviving as a functioning machine, but that is not always the case. The table top fills up with notes. The notes fill up with contacts, and the contacts...
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From the Editor's Desk

From the people behind the news at the Kitsap Sun.

From the Editor's Desk: Steve Gardner nails it (according to the policy nerds)

Though the comments following this story left me wondering if those readers understood (or even read) what reporter Steve Gardner put together to explain the ongoing election saga to replace Jay Inslee, a public policy group in Minnesota did ack...
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League of Women Voters of Kitsap

Information blog from the League of Women Voters of Kitsap.

League of Women Voters of Kitsap: Interested in Shorelines?

Plan to attend the next League of Women Voters of Kitsap meeting. Here are the details: Kitsap County Shoreline Master Plan Update Wednesday, April 18, 9:30 a.m. to noon Eagles Nest, 1200 Fairgrounds Road NW, Bremerton With speaker Dave Greetham, ...
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The Mom Squad

5 local moms, rollin' and patrollin' in the KC.

The Mom Squad: Sick is in the Air

Tis the season of the cold and flu *cough* *sniff* This year the sick bugs seem to be rampant! Maybe it’s just us, but having a Kindergartener, we all seem to catch whatever there is to catch…often. There are so many methods of treating said g...
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Kitsap Dining

A blog of dining adventures in Kitsap County and beyond

Kitsap Dining: All You Can Eat Sushi – Trapper’s – Bremerton

Simply put, I love sushi!  If you’re a sushi lover you know that one piece will never do.  Sushi eating is like eating chips, no one can eat just one – just check out any sushi hang out and see the plates stacked up at the tables as ...
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Kitsap Farm to Fork

A couple of farm girls, Diane Fish and Shannon Harkness, share their experiences with farming, cooking, local food, and building the Kitsap Foodshed.

Kitsap Farm to Fork: Soup for the soggy soul

There are days that challenge my commitment to farming.  Like today.  Cold, wet, slushy, rainy, soggy…sick cows, muddy pastures, backed up storm drains in the milking area, I am tired and feel sick….it goes on and on. So,...
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Everyday CK

An on-going conversation focused on the community of Central Kitsap, fueled by local resident Rich Jacobson.

Everyday CK: What Message is Olympia Sending to Our Teachers?

What message are our legislators sending to our valued educators? Your personal improvement and continuing education aren’t important. We want you to work harder, and longer, increase classroom sizes, but get paid less money. Once ag...
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COPD and Other Stuff

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.

COPD and Other Stuff: Dr. Halligan and Harrison Medical Center Angels, Part 2 of 3

Our recent tragic killings and deaths make me doubly grateful for the incredible people and treatment I received from our hometown hospital and staff at Harrison Medical Center. Those of us who have been patients there over a length of time know H...
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Our Sound Home

One couple living on the Puget Sound, turning an old house into their home.

Our Sound Home: 2012 New Year Manifesto

Hello, 2012! It’s OurSoundHome here with a project inspired by Ashley’s Manifesto over at From Dahlias to Doxies, a way of simplifying and writing down goals for the new year. So, I created one myself! Check it out:       I’...
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The Food Life

Recipes, resources and food inspiration from people and places in Kitsap County. By Kitsap Sun Web Editor Angela Dice.

The Food Life: A Toast to National Coffee Day

Sept. 29 is National Coffee Day. Here’s a little Twin Peaks tribute: Tweet This Post Post to Delicious Digg This Post Share on Facebook
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Eating In, Eating Out

My experiences eating out on the peninsula and the tales of what happens in my kitchen.

Eating In, Eating Out: Puerto Vallarta

I love Mexican food and Puerto Vallarta is one of my favorites on the peninsula. My husband and I took an out of town visitor to this old favorite and it lived up to its past trips. Our guest enjoyed the kitschy interior decorations and the great ...
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Plant Life

ramblings and tips about plants and all things green from Peg Tillery of WSU Kitsap Extension.

Plant Life: Fairy Gardens

Our granddaughter Bridget asked me to help her plant a fairy garden as a present for her seventh birthday on June 10. Here are ideas to create your own fairy garden, whether for a child in your life or for the child within you. Fairy gardens can b...
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