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MANCHESTER The military s largest gas station, located on the shores of south Kitsap County, is about to endure a test of its muster.
Next week, convoys of Army trucks based at Joint Base Lewis-McCord will converge at the Manchester Fuel Depot to practice its wartime mission, if ever called upon, of distributing fuel and water across the country. The Army s Quartermaster Logistics Liquid Excercise 2021, conducted by the Army Reserve annually, will begin this year at the Manchester depot, part of Naval Base Kitsap. They re gonna stage tankers, fuel them up, inspect them, and, once everybody s full, head out to the highway, said Brian Davis, a spokesman for the Naval Supply Systems Command.
North Kitsap home a complete loss following early morning fire
NORTH KITSAP – A North Kitsap home suffered significant damage in an early morning fire Wednesday.
No injuries were reported in the incident, which occurred in the 4500 block of Lincoln Road. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, Poulsbo Fire Department Battalion Chief Justin Zeigler said.
The fire was discovered by one of the home s residents, who d been up at about 4:30 a.m. making his lunch for the workday when the power to his refrigerator cut out, Zeigler said.
And so, He went to the front of his home where the breaker panel is and noticed outside that the front yard was aglow and upon leaving the house found the side of his home was on fire, Zeigler said.
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Saying she would sentence him longer if she could, a Kitsap County Superior Court judge gave a sex offender 12 ½ years in prison for an online extortion scheme targeting gay men in which he assumed the identity of a prior victim.
Judge Jennifer Forbes told Christopher Malik Longmire, 25, the 152-month maxim sentence was “not enough.”
“I’ve come to the conclusion that our society needs to be protected from you as long as the law will allow,” Forbes said.
Kitsap County sheriff’s detectives started unraveling the scheme in January 2017 after authorities in California traced the extortion threats back to Kitsap County.
BANGOR A powerful and incessant tsunami generated by the next Cascadia megaquake would crest Navy piers and wharves, flood critical state highways in Kitsap County and inundate other lowland areas of Puget Sound, according to new modeling released Tuesday by the state s Department of Natural Resources.
In Hood Canal, the 9.0 quake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone off Washington s coast would slosh water back and forth like in a bathtub, topping the Navy s submarine piers and pushing waves as high as 14 feet onto the shore at Belfair.
In Sinclair Inlet, the waves would be smaller, the state says, but would still inundate the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard with about a foot of water and likely push more than 3 1/2 feet of water through Gorst, closing the highway. Other lowland areas of Puget Sound, particularly near the mouths of streams including Clear Creek in Silverdale and within Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island, would flood as well.
With COVID-19 vaccinations climbing in Kitsap while cases are on the rise again and the identification of a virus variant looms, Dr. Gib Morrow turned to a pair of sporty metaphors.
Going through a slide deck at Tuesday s Kitsap Public Health District board meeting, the district s health officer came to a slide with a syringe and a coronavirus globe superimposed on the heads of a tortoise and a hare.
“The race is on,” Morrow told local elected officials, “and we need to put the hammer down.”
Then later: “If presumably we’re in the fourth quarter and the goal line’s in sight and we can start celebrating at some point in the not-too-distant future, now is not the time to do anything that increases the likelihood of transmitting this virus,” he said.