What Is News? Stuff That Happened In Your Town

What Is News? Stuff That Happened In Your Town

Kitsap traffic needs to calm down with a pedestrian killed, a car in flames and a head-on fatality all in the past month… Plus this town makes national news again last month as our Typewriter Guy and the Great Peninsula Conservancy are featured in the New York Times…Plus more from the old army tugboat Dominion… And the old, Old Town Pub Building… Meanwhile South Kitsap Helpline moves into new space on Mile Hill which used to be Everybody’s and more…

Sharing A Smoke With The Muse

Sharing A Smoke With The Muse

… Rather, I believe, the Muse is something of a pesky spider. Left unbothered or ignored, it may crawl past you. It may waltz all eight of its legs right across your breast while you sleep. Cultured, however, and given two thin sticks to spin a web between, it might just do that.

Bikes Eternal

Bikes Eternal

…I’ve also found there is a weirdly low bar to get into a parade if you have an interesting bicycle. Plus, there are a few unique groups I’ve found in Bremerton because of our shared obsession with cycle transportation…

Advice From A Barnacle:

Advice From A Barnacle:

The Breakdown: We want to do it ourselves. With out any help from others. The Resistance approach may be more about the freedom of IT. A natural fight from within. Achievements taste so much better knowing it was accomplished by oneself. So Much More Meening. UNTIL…

This Ain’t No Disco: Local Record Store Bargain Crate Finds

This Ain’t No Disco: Local Record Store Bargain Crate Finds

…Wonderfully lacking further labeling other than one room for new and two for used, this invites perusing without prejudice. Expensive punk originals resting against $2 forgotten Countrypolitan, Clash re-issues with classical. But this cover for ‘The Baroque Head’ – oh, this cover! – yelled at me, louder than its co-crated Beatles and Bachman Turner Overdrive and Bee Gees.

Dear Down To Earth Oracle:

Dear Down To Earth Oracle:

While on a lunch outing in Ocean Shores, we decided to stop at a second hand treasure store Nate’s Vintage. It’s small and cram-packed full from floor to ceiling with memorabilia, clothing, religious items, and other items from the past. I walked in and right away saw the brass shape of a Chinese dragon holding a bell from its mouth…

December Garden Thoughts From Urban Gnomestead

December Garden Thoughts From Urban Gnomestead

It’s the second most wonderful time of the year, seed catalog season! The time of year when we get to sit in our jammy pants and hoodies, drinking cups of some hot beverage, have the fire blazing… and look to see what we want to grow for the next year.

From The Editor

From The Editor

It’s eerie how the darkness can limit your perspective to only that which is in your immediate vicinity, while making everything beyond seem almost infinitely unknown… Even if you know what is there in the daylight.

What Is News? Stuff That Happened In Your Town

What Is News? Stuff That Happened In Your Town

With much less fanfare, Bremerton’s got a brand new permanent mural tucked away in an alleyway downtown… Plus the longest government shut down in history hits the town, county, state and nation… Crews fail to lift the sunken former US Army tugboat from the depths at the Bremerton Marina… Another vessel runs aground near Indianola… a deckhand drowns in Kingston… The Suquamish Tribe renames its salmon hatchery… Mac & Jacks is now being brewed in Bremerton… and more.