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Event brings awareness to the serious issue of domestic violence. — page 2
Bainbridge welcomes Lemolo
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BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
STANDOUT PineCrest teacher is at the top of the class — Page 12
IN THE GAME Bremerton vet competes at Warrior games — Page 11
GOT A MINUTE? City wants help on its comp plan — Page 7
BREWFEST Event will benefit kids — Page 8
OPINION Domestic violence month is a good chance to talk about a taboo subject — Page 4
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Hauge, Robinson vie to be prosecutor
able from Cascade Crops in Shelton and some more product from Sequim and Gig Harbor. When asked if she thinks she will sell out of marijuana shortly after opening on Oct. 11, Atkinson didn’t miss a beat. “Gosh, I hope so,” she said. One of the great ironies about Highway 420 is that Atkinson and most of her SEE HWY 420, A9
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here.” Under stringent state rules, the marijuana has to be taken down, dried and tested. After waiting for the results, the bud can get packaging and labels before the finished product goes into a 24-hour quarantine. Only then can it be sent to the retailer. While hopeful that she will be able to sell Bremerton-grown weed at her new shop on opening day, Atkinson says she will definitely have product avail-
Review of Airfield Winery
This is part of a series of Q&As with candidates for local office in the Nov. 4 general election. This Q&A: Russell D. Hauge and Tina Robinson, candidates for Kitsap County prosecuting attorney. The prosecuting attorney’s office prosecutes all felonies and misdemeanors in Kitsap County, advises and represents all of the county’s elected officials and departments, provides legal advice to all county law enforcement agencies, establishes and enforces child support obligations, and provides victim and witness assistance services. According to the prosecutor’s website, www.kitsapgov.com/ pros/, “We prosecute cases in the Superior and District courts and in the Municipal courts of Port Orchard, Poulsbo and Bainbridge Island. We determine what charge to file, when and where to file it, how best to obtain a conviction, and we recommend a punishment if the offender is convicted.” The prosecuting attorney receives an annual salary of
Highway 420 owner Annette Atkinson and purchasing manager Brian Rose, who are Bremerton neighbors, stand next to some of the bongs they will offer for sale when the store opens Oct. 11. est on April 20 to get high. Atkinson hopes that some of the weed she sells on opening day will come from Nine Point Growth Industries, a licensed grower in Bremerton. She got her retail license from the state Sept. 30 and the turnaround time to get product from Nine Point to her shop will be tight. “That process usually takes 10 to 12 days,” she said. “I needed it in 11, so I’m praying that we’ll have that product
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Bremerton’s Annette Atkinson never dreamed she would own a pot shop. “Yeah, no, this whole thing never crossed my mind,” Atkinson said. “But, I’m a business person. I’ve never had anything against marijuana and have always thought it’s probably safer than alcohol and thought it should be handled in a similar way. But, I never thought I’d open a weed store.” On Oct. 10, though, Atkinson will do just that with a 4:20 p.m. ribbon cutting ceremony at Highway 420, a recreational marijuana store located at 1110 Charleston Beach Road in Navy Yard City. Actual sales will get underway the following day. While a pair of Port Orchard retail stores have already opened, Highway 420’s opening will give Bremerton residents their first chance to buy legal recreational marijuana so close to home. The origin of the popular term 420 is often obscured by a combination of myth and urban legend, but most historians trace it back to a group of marijuana smoking teenagers in San Rafael, California, who, in 1971, journeyed into the Point Reyes for-
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Transit bus, SUV collide in head-on wreck BY KEVAN MOORE KMOORE@SOUNDPUBLISHING.COM
Bremerton police say the woman who hit a Kitsap Transit bus head-on Oct. 7 was suffering from a medical emergncy. The unnamed woman, 63, was headed eastbound in a blue Hyundai Tucson on Kitsap Way shortly after 4:15 p.m. when she crossed the center line at the Ostrich Bay Road intersection. Lieutenant Pete
Fischer says the Tucson first clipped the back of a westbound truck before slamming into the front of the Kitsap Transit bus which was stopped westbound in the left turn lane. The 63-year-old woman was eventually transported to the hospital by paramedics. Fisher said there were only two people on the bus — a male driver and a female passenger. The bus driver was
not transported, but the female passenger complained of neck and back pain and was transported to the hospital. Fisher said it is not likely that the 63-yearold driver of the Tucson will be issued a citation due to the fact she was suffering from a medical emergency. Fisher said officers were first dispatched to the collision at 4:19 p.m.
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Police and firefighters respond to the Oct. 7 Kitsap Way collision.
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