Staycations have been a popular concept for a long time—for a variety of reasons—and one look at the state’s official Visitors Guide shows why it’s still a good idea in Kitsap County.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Thirty-five-year-old Rex Hanks homesteaded in the Happy Creek valley in 1946. He remained a bachelor until 1953, when he married registered nurse Irmgard Matz in Seward. Together they had two daughters, both stillborn. Rex built a modest home for himself and his wife south of the creek and near the beach above Cook Inlet.
Hilcorp Alaska has received approval from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for a spacing exemption to drill its Whiskey Gulch 15 exploration well on the Kenai Peninsula north of the company