Did you know that the most decorated vessel in U.S. Navy history is perched right here* in Bremerton? Next time you take a walk downtown — perhaps Saturday for the Armed Forces Day parade — be sure to go to the entrance of the Harborside Fountain Park. There, you’ll find the sail of the USS … Continue reading Bremerton’s best kept — and most decorated — military secret
Since my transition from covering Kitsap County’s crime and chaos for eight years, I have yearned to resurrect this blog to give Bremerton readers a place to turn for slices of life in the city straddling the Port Washington Narrows.
In the second month, January 2006, of the Bremerton Beat blog I wrote a post about Bremerton adding free wireless Internet downtown. In case you didn’t notice, and chances are you didn’t, city-backed free wireless went away last year. Next week, so does the Bremerton Beat. Truth is, not many will notice that exit either. … Continue reading A Heavy-Handed Farewell to the Bremerton Beat
Here at the Beat we sling arrows at others, mostly Port Orchard and on one occasion Seattle. It’s our way of staying powerful, under the notion that you really can make your own lawn look better by peeing on someone else’s. (Was that inappropriate? I miss Binion. He never would have bothered to ask.) It’s … Continue reading They Got Bremerton’s Back
I had seen hints of Barney’s Quick Stop’s coming closure (I mean other than every headline about the economy and gas prices), but didn’t hit home until today. Not that I’m overly nostalgic for a fairly run-of-the-mill gas station in the neighborhood (insert 7-11 joke by Binion here), but I was on ‘E’ this morning … Continue reading Bye Bye Barney’s
Wherever we are in the stages of grief, it’s clearly not over, based on the complaints aimed at those of us trying to fill the shoes Andy Binion left behind here. Believe us, we’re not happy about this either. I’ve been in contact with Andy a couple of times and he is, if nothing else, … Continue reading Silence is argument carried out by unemployment
A couple of miracles are at work here. First, our regular InterWeb site got this news out before I did on this here blog, even though I wrote the durned thing and had every intention of rushing right over here to post as quickly and dramatically as I could. I like doing that. My trouble … Continue reading That Ticket You Made a Big Show of Shredding? No One Will Ever Know
Hello fellow Bremertonians! This is Angela Dice here, Sun Web editor and writer over at The Food Life blog. I’ll be one of several folks taking over the Bremerton Beat blog now that we’ve had to say goodbye to Andrew Binion. I’m going to start off this transition a little light, a little trite: OK, … Continue reading Bremerton on Zooey Watch
It’s been a hoot, Bremerton. Call it “laid off,” a “reduction in force,” or “involuntary separation,” I will be leaving the Kitsap Sun. My reign of terror will be complete Dec. 31. Lay-offs are the way of the world, like sinus infections, and I am the reporter of least seniority. When I first heard the … Continue reading Roll On, Bremerton, Roll On
Your mother would cry if she saw what you’ve become. The Seattle Times published a story Thursday about the sight-seeing potential of downtown Bremerton, which includes an action-packed itinerary for day-trippers. Bremerton has much to offer the casual tourist, unlike like other Times day travel stories, “Take A Chill At The Strip Malls of the … Continue reading Bremerton For The Boorish
