Seniors work the ice

Bill Paulsen streaks across the ice on his way to covering 14 miles worth of laps around the Bremerton Ice Center’s rink Wednesday morning. Part of a senior skate that does a low-impact workout two days a week. “Unless you fall,” he said. - Greg Skinner
Greg Skinner
Bill Paulsen streaks across the ice on his way to covering 14 miles worth of laps around the Bremerton Ice Center’s rink Wednesday morning. Part of a senior skate that does a low-impact workout two days a week. “Unless you fall,” he said.
Dennis Woody glides across the ice, his lips pursed beneath his white beard. He shifts from left to right, looking for his center of balance, tucks in his arms and jumps up like a spring, one full rotation and sticks the landing.

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News 1:44 PM January 26, 2012 0

Everything Bremerton: Process before improvements

Earlier this month, it was announced that the Bremerton School District and its school board have begun discussions about a potential capital projects levy.

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Opinion 5:46 PM January 26, 2012 0

Too late indeed I Letter

Regarding methadone clinics in Bremerton, which first appeared online Jan. 24 and is on the front page of this print edition, it is indeed “too late” for an untold number of local residents who wanted and needed what for many years has been the “gold standard” of treatment of opioid dependence, and whose lives have been destroyed, and lost, to date.

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Letters 5:45 PM January 26, 2012 0

City council forms ad-hoc parking committee

In a city of 37,000 residents, three members of the city council have banded together to find a way to deal with less than two-dozen chronic “shufflers.”

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News updated 5:11 PM January 26, 2012 0

Snow job | Editorial

A week after the biggest snowstorm in two years and the city of Bremerton cannot yet say how much they spent running seven snowplows from 3 a.m. Jan. 18 until the city response ended many days later.

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News 1:57 PM January 26, 2012 0

Methadone clinics can be built in Bremerton, Public Health says too late to help

Many in Bremerton felt victory last August when the city imposed a six-month moratorium on building methadone clinics. Since then, the city’s planning commission has done its work and found that clinics can be built on the very location that drew the original opposition.

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News 1:53 PM January 26, 2012 0

No secret, students use tobacco

The Central Kitsap School District is in the midst of updating its tobacco use policy and while already prohibited from being used on school property, some students say smoking or chewing tobacco can be a problem.

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News 1:49 PM January 26, 2012 Central Kitsap Reporter 0

Nimitz officer killed while helping motorist on icy road

It took days, but the recent stretch of winter storms and foul weather Monday claimed a life in Kitsap County.

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News 1:48 PM January 26, 2012 0

Storm breaks bones, sends some to surgery

Harrison Medical Center orthopedics unit filled up during last weeks snow storm. Broken bones from slips on the ice around homes and in parking lots during the three-day storm that blanketed Kitsap County in snow then dumped frozen rain.

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News 1:46 PM January 26, 2012 0

After snow, it’s business as usual

All that remained Monday from last week’s anticipated snowfall were large clumps of snow and thousands of tons of dirt mixtures piled in corners of parking lots and thin layers of snow that hadn’t melted yet in some shady areas.

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News 1:45 PM January 26, 2012 Central Kitsap Reporter 0

Storm breaks bones, sends some to surgery

The Harrison Medical Center orthopedics filled up during last weeks snow storm. Broken bones from slips on the ice around homes and in parking lots during the three-day storm that blanketed Kitsap County in snow then dumped frozen rain

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News 7:08 PM January 24, 2012 0

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