Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FClimate change is causing Western red cedar and Western hemlock trees to die off on Bainbridge Island. It’s just too hot and dry.Kirk Hanson, director of Forestry at Northwest Natural Resource Group, said that shade-tolerant and moisture-preferring trees are giving way to drought-tolerant trees from the south. A tree migration is taking place.In 2012, the US Department of Agriculture changed the hardiness zones chart, which shifted all the zones up and added zones 11-13. With these new planting guidelines,...…Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FClimate change is causing Western red cedar and Western hemlock trees to die off on Bainbridge Island. It’s just too hot and dry.Kirk Hanson, director of Forestry at Northwest Natural Resource Group, said that shade-tolerant and moisture-preferring trees are giving way to drought-tolerant trees from the south. A tree migration is taking place.In 2012, the US Department of Agriculture changed the hardiness zones chart, which shifted all the zones up and added zones 11-13. With these new planting guidelines,...WW…

Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FCOVID was tough on performing arts everywhere, but Bainbridge Performing Arts took advantage of the downtime to give an $18 million renovation to Buxton Center.About 700 people attended the center’s grand opening Sept. 30.Matt Longmire, BPA coordinator for Communications and Development, said people reacted to the new building in different ways. The general themes were how beautiful the building is, how much potential it has for future events, how excited people were to come back to the center, and how newcomers...…Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FCOVID was tough on performing arts everywhere, but Bainbridge Performing Arts took advantage of the downtime to give an $18 million renovation to Buxton Center.About 700 people attended the center’s grand opening Sept. 30.Matt Longmire, BPA coordinator for Communications and Development, said people reacted to the new building in different ways. The general themes were how beautiful the building is, how much potential it has for future events, how excited people were to come back to the center, and how newcomers...WW…

Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FKitsap County Sheriff’s Office detectives have identified two suspects in a murder investigation in Poulsbo’s 3100 block of Lincoln Road NE at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 3.Arrest warrants have been issued for suspicion of murder in the first degree for Caleb R. Sloan, 29, who is 6-foot-1, 180 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes; and Aksel J. Strom, 26, who is 6 foot, 185 pounds with brown hair and eyes.Both should be considered armed and dangerous, per KCSO.Deputies were dispatched to the scene for a reported gunshot injury...…Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FKitsap County Sheriff’s Office detectives have identified two suspects in a murder investigation in Poulsbo’s 3100 block of Lincoln Road NE at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 3.Arrest warrants have been issued for suspicion of murder in the first degree for Caleb R. Sloan, 29, who is 6-foot-1, 180 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes; and Aksel J. Strom, 26, who is 6 foot, 185 pounds with brown hair and eyes.Both should be considered armed and dangerous, per KCSO.Deputies were dispatched to the scene for a reported gunshot injury...WW…

Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FFlu, and COVID, season is upon us, the Kitsap Public Health District says in a news release.Updated COVID-19 vaccines will be available this fall. The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control have recommended update 2023-24 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. The vaccines were designed to provide protection against variants of the COVID virus that are spreading now. The CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older get a vaccine.It will take some time before the vaccines are available locally....…Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FFlu, and COVID, season is upon us, the Kitsap Public Health District says in a news release.Updated COVID-19 vaccines will be available this fall. The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control have recommended update 2023-24 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. The vaccines were designed to provide protection against variants of the COVID virus that are spreading now. The CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older get a vaccine.It will take some time before the vaccines are available locally....WW…

Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FIt started with a shared social media post by a Bremerton pastor, and in just the first few weeks back in classrooms, the Central Kitsap School District once again finds itself faced with another gender controversy and issue of student and staff safety.Rick Vandenhole, a music teacher at Brownsville Elementary in Bremerton, faces harsh criticism and calls for resignation after a mid-September social media post he made caught the ire of some parents and community members.The post, which has since been removed from...…Skip to contentSign OutSign InSubscribeNewsletterContact UsSign OutSign In54°FIt started with a shared social media post by a Bremerton pastor, and in just the first few weeks back in classrooms, the Central Kitsap School District once again finds itself faced with another gender controversy and issue of student and staff safety.Rick Vandenhole, a music teacher at Brownsville Elementary in Bremerton, faces harsh criticism and calls for resignation after a mid-September social media post he made caught the ire of some parents and community members.The post, which has since been removed from...WW…