I’ll leave it at that, at the risk of getting overly sentimental because I want to talk about how the community rallies around its own.

From the ‘Now, This Is Just Getting Ridiculous’ Department: Fake cop busted in Bremerton makes national ‘news,’ while two boats sink in Sinclair Inlet last month.. Plus a plan to log Banner Forest Heritage Park draws community push back in South Kitsap while Port Gamble Heritage Park gets a new north end entrance.. Also more from the Bear Gulch fire, an update from the Silverdale chess club.. another No Kings Protest coming up.. and Bremerton mainstay musubi coming to Manette.

Is it strange to have a favorite cemetery? Probably. Ivy Green was Bremerton’s first cemetery but in a strange twist of fate, it was also Charleston’s first cemetery. When they were separate settlements, they each put their cemeteries at the edge of town. As the towns grew into each other, so did the cemeteries. They were officially combined by removing a chunk of 13th street. If you look, the power lines are still there, running between the headstones.

More often than not—unlike the controversial standing-room-only public boardroom meetings where people speak their opinions vehemently to a board, which doesn’t even respond to public comment in those sessions, and has most likely already made up its mind—not a lot of people show up to these smaller civic things where you can engage in actual conversation with [insert your public official here]. 

The man finally throws himself into the driver’s seat of his truck. As he does it, he glances at his rearview mirror and sees a scraggly group of people waiting for the bus. He thinks he sees a man inch a little too close to a woman wearing a skirt. It’s much too cold to be wearing a skirt…

Viewed from opposite ends of the Rock Section in Port Orchard’s Vinyl Injection – as it was by me when my wife found it  -this album’s cover looked like a blurred AI rendering of a scary John Oates and Barbara Streisand’s stunt double, acting seductive… Once I had it in hand, it also looked like that.

My partner and I were house shopping recently and came across one very memorable house. It’s definitely one we won’t forget anytime soon, and not in the ‘it’s super cute and we want it to be our future home’ kinda way. It was straight up haunted with a sprinkle of demon. Yup. No joke. 

‘1974 Bremerton Power Trio:’

Driving down Highway 3 this time of year is always such a beautiful sight to see. Fallen maple leaves decomposed make what we gardeners call Leaf Mold, which is my favorite part about Fall! When the leaves fall in the forest it is Mother Nature’s way of putting a nice thermal blanket on the ground to protect the soil for the winter.

Water signs: Trying to sweep anything under the rug? Air signs: Get in touch with your sensuality… Earth signs: You are the authority… Fire signs: Let your guides line things up for you…