Ground kept unbroken at txʷaalqəł Conservation Area celebration
Nov 25, 2024The Phase IV purchase brings the txʷaalqəł Conservation Area to 52 total acres that will remain undeveloped.
Guests of honor show up for Chum Walk
Nov 23, 2024This year’s Chum Walk saw not only a lively amount of enthusiastic visitors of all ages, but of all species: Several Chum Walkers, including this reporter, spotted a few salmon in the creek once again. The Chum Walk, put on by Harbor WildWatch, had booths stationed along a 0.25-mile trail that began in Austin Park
Chum Walk may be light on chum again; here’s why
Nov 18, 2024Chum salmon probably won’t attend the annual event in big numbers again this year, but there are reasons for hope for the future.
Open Juried Show provides an ocean of emotions
Nov 06, 2024The Peninsula Art League’s 22nd Open Juried Show continues through Nov. 22 at Harbor History Museum.
827 pounds of finely carved art
Nov 01, 2024Master pumpkin carver Russ Leno made his annual Halloween appearance at Uptown to turn a giant vegetable into a work of art.
Ghostlight gets the green light for new theater home on Fox Island
Oct 28, 2024Rex Davison is not a full-time actor. He’s actually a real estate agent. But this gives him a lot of flexibility, he explained while unwinding after a long day of moving boxes from Ghostlight Performing Arts’ old space in Bremerton to the small company’s new home at the Nichols Community Center on Fox Island. “I
Green crabs, blackberries and knotweed not invited to State of the Watershed address
Oct 25, 2024Editors note: This story has been updated since it was first posted. Meghan Whidden discussed Minterbrook Oyster Company. An earlier version of this story attributed the presentation to the wrong person. Green crabs, and blackberries, and suspicious septic tanks — oh, my! OK, OK — no one actually said the above verbatim, and this writer
Q&A | A conversation about the many forms of domestic violence
Oct 24, 2024A conversation with Nadia Van Atter, assistant director of the Crystal Judson Family Justice Center, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Harbor WildWatch helps the Blue Water Task Force keep the water clean
Oct 23, 2024“When I was here, the harbor seal just went right under the dock and popped up on the other side,” Sarah Kelly excitedly says. Her eyes sparkle. “It was so close.” On this temperate day in early October, Kelly takes a sample of the water at Jerisich Dock. She is a Blue Water Task Force
PAL’s new Art in the Park show includes paintings, pyrography and prizes
Oct 14, 2024The Art in the Park show helps inaugurate PenMet Parks’ new headquarters building — and its partnership with Peninsula Art League.