Lifestyles - Central Kitsap

Osprey squatters mark seven years at Central Kitsap High School

Bruce Vidinhar stepped over a cluster of branches Tuesday, the mess left by Central Kitsap High School’s most notable squatters, and peered toward the sky. There was no squawking or movement from above as the district’s grounds department supervisor peered through a pair of binoculars on a drizzly late August morning behind the school.

Olympic College engineering students building bridges at home

When members of Olympic College’s Engineers Without Borders completed a 50-foot bridge on the north end of the Clear Creek Trail this week, it was a sign of bigger things to come for the budding engineering community at the school.

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A winning condition in Central Kitsap

It’s been two decades since John Freeman was a teenager. He rarely played video games or watched television and he certainly didn’t have any friends on Facebook. “When I was a kid we went out and played — played football, played baseball, played basketball, played war out in the brush,” said Freeman, the strength and conditioning coach at Olympic High School

Kitsap conservatives turn out for the (tea) party

Jim Ullrich of Chico thinks the U.S. has been headed in the wrong direction for the last 50 years, since prayer was outlawed from public schools. He wants fiscally conservative and pro-life candidates in office and wants the state and federal governments to stop “redistributing wealth.”

The 'best last chance' for Central Kitsap farming

Dorothy Lind remembers jumping in the haystacks and her brother and cousin kissing the dairy cows goodnight at her Uncle Gerry’s farm in Silverdale.

Bremerton paramedics changed by work in Haiti

Sam Hernandez served in the Air Force and Army and has been a paramedic for 20 years. He isn’t shocked by much. But he came back from Haiti in May as a changed man. “It will take awhile for me to think like an American again,” he told his girlfriend and son, finding himself impatient with complaints that paled in comparison to the problems in the earthquake-ravaged country.