The first annual Mosquito Fleet Fest in Port Orchard is coming Saturday, May 25, bringing two vessels that were part of the historic ferry system to the Port Orchard waterfront: Carlisle II and Virginia V. Organized by the Port Orchard Bay Street Association, a variety of events scheduled as well so festival-goers may enjoy the […]
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a shooting that left a man dead in the Plum Orchard neighborhood on Sunday, May 19. The NOPD reported officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 4400 block of Werner Drive around 6:35 a.m., where they found a man […]
A 50-year-old Port Orchard man was charged Friday with rape after allegedly providing an 18-year-old woman with more than 10 shots of tequila and taking her to his home when she was incapacitated. Christopher Michael Wahoviak was arrested Thursday and charged in Kitsap Superior Court Friday with third-degree rape, a felony, as well as a […]
Iowa City-based Wilson’s Orchard & Farm is opening a second location in Cumming in mid-April, helping to anchor the $750 million Middlebrook agrihood that’s under development there. It will offer most of the popular features of the original Wilson’s Orchard, an Iowa City-area institution for nearly 40 years, with you-pick and prepicked apples, berries and […]
Meghan Markle has launched a new business venture with an Instagram teaser. A vintage-style video of Meghan cooking and arranging white hydrangeas and roses was posted to the new American Riviera Orchard Instagram account on Thursday. The brief video is set to Nancy Wilson’s I Wish You Love and closes with the brand’s logo, American […]
COSHOCTON − The Coshocton County Sheriff’s Office searched a residence in the 1600 block of Orchard Street before 6 p.m. Tuesday. The special response team and detectives division were involved. Recovered on the scene were drugs and drug paraphernalia. Three men and one woman were taken into custody with multiple arrest warrants. Names of the […]
KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) — Just below the fog line hanging over the central Okanagan Valley, rows of saplings for a cherry orchard expansion span the eastern stretch above Highway 33 on the outskirts of Kelowna in Canada’s wine country. New cherry varieties and climate change in British Columbia’s interior have enabled the fruit to […]
Feb. 25—The years of Plum Orchard Lake being plum are long gone, some local residents and officials say. In recent weeks, several southern West Virginia leaders and residents have expressed their concerns to state officials about the conditions at Plum Orchard, which is a wildlife management area operated by the West Virginia Division of Natural […]
A Port Orchard man was reported missing last week and the police department is requesting the public’s assistance to search him. Garrett Briggs, 37, was reported missing on Jan. 30 after being seen in the evening of Jan. 29, where he told friends he was heading under the Blackjack Creek Bridge on Lund Avenue in […]
Jan. 26—Grissom’s Lost Creek Orchard in Greenup has a new name that reflects its new ownership and growing market. Grissom Family Orchard and Farm Market opened in September of last year under the ownership of Trever and Tracy Lynn Grissom, son and daughter-in-law of the previous owners. Trever worked on his family’s orchard until he […]
When Brandon Soliday of Port Orchard passed the driving knowledge exam on Nov. 3 in Lakewood, the 21-year-old clenched his fist and raised his arms to the air to express his happiness. With a big smile on his face, he gave his mother, Elizabeth a high five. Leaving the exam location, they called his father […]