The art and the emblem of the future Lynwood light rail station, soon-to-be @SoundTransit’s northern light rail terminus, has been installed.1yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Seattle
Kids (under 18) ride state ferries for free starting in October, under new legislation signed by Gov. Inslee Friday.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Seattle
Happening now: The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation’s last oil-fired aircraft carrier, is departing Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a Texas shipyard.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/navy
The USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723) has just made its last voyage. Like all U.S. Navy nuclear-powered subs, it will be decommissioned and recycled at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/submarines
Historic housing at Bremerton’s Navy base is beautiful but costly to maintain. Just the pillars and porches alone have exceeded $10 million in the last decade.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/navy
The nuclear reactor compartment of the old Narwhal submarine has been floated out of Puget Sound, up the Columbia, and taken to a ditch at Hanford, where it will spend the next 1,000 years.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/submarines
USS Olympia, a fast-attack Navy sub, arrived in Puget Sound today for decommissioning (in case you saw a submarine).4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/SeattleWA
We made it! Phyllis told Ed after he took her hand and kissed it. The Port Orchard nursing home residents were both born May 15, 1916 and turned 103 years old today.5yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Seattle
Anyone else think it’s weird we live in a state named for the general who led the war for independence, yet our most recognized symbol bears the name of an admiral who fought against Washington?4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Washington
The Port Townsend-Coupeville ferry, as seen from the “triangle of fire.” (Fort Casey.)3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Washington
Did you serve on the USS Kitty Hawk? The old ship, now in Bremerton, Wash., will soon head to Texas to be dismantled.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/navy
It's like Christmas, Thanksgiving, a snow day and the Super Bowl, all rolled into one, said Maria Agana, who has worked at a Puget Sound-area Safeway for 24 years. And she is (and others at the store are) smiling as they take the unprecedented demand in stride.4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Seattle
Next time you’re in Everett, don’t miss the new Grand Avenue Park pedestrian Bridge, a $20 million, 257-foot truss over waterfront tracks and road that doubles as a carrier of city utilities.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Washington
At the time of its completion in 1914, the nearly 500-foot-tall Smith Tower in Seattle was the tallest building this side of the Mississippi.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/SeattleWA
Butterfly rock art as the tide rolls in, made 100% with rocks/nature from a Puget Sound beach.5yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Washington
Is there a more interesting courthouse in Washington than the one Jefferson County, built on the bluffs of Port Townsend in 1892?3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Washington
Kitsap County’s shortage of obstetricians has become a crisis. One of the few providers recently delivered 15 babies in 72 hours.1yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
The USS Nevada headed out on deployment — threading the Hood Canal Bridge — Dec. 16, the Navy confirmed today with this photo. It's one of the country's 14 nuclear missile-armed subs, should the president ever order such a strike; 8 of the 14 are based at Bangor.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
It may not Be fun to get around in a car, but it sure is beautiful in Bremerton on foot this morning.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
In honor of the Seattle Kraken’s first home game, here’s the ferry-devouring Kraken Kolsch, made by Bremerton brewery Chaos Bay.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
More donuts are coming to Bremerton. American Donut Makers plans an opening in April on Sixth Street.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
Ex-Narwhal (SSN-671) was recently dismantled at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/submarines
Be thinking about our power crews and emergency responders today. It’s been a long night and will be a long day for them. Nearly 300k without power in PSE’s service area.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
Following months of maintenance, the 44-year-old Nimitz, America’s oldest aircraft carrier, headed out of Bremerton this morning to get ready to defend our nation once more.5yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/navy
Fire crews have squelched a 17-acre blaze near Horseshoe Lake in South Kitsap county -- but they warn fire danger is high in Puget Sound as our region comes into a potential 100-degree heatwave.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
Noah's Ark Restaurant is reopening today for takeout today after being closed for ... you guessed it ... 40 days and 40 nights.4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
Kitsap County's political landscape roughly cuts its ideological lines in the pattern of a compass. The further south and west one goes, the more likely voters are to vote Republican. Go north and east, and one finds more voters supporting Democrats.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
Marina Square, a $130m project that will bring 280 units to downtown Bremerton, opens soon.1yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
Did you know: before it was Port Orchard, Port Madison — on the north tip of Bainbridge Island — was the seat of county government from 1857 to 1893. It was home to foundries, mills, refineries and a jail/courthouse— which is hard to imagine now.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
Two developments underway in East Bremerton will bring more than 750 new apartments and single-family homes to the city.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
There are currently 102 active COVID-19 cases in Kitsap County, the first time we've hit triple digits since the pandemic began. The current curve of new cases is headed up and the local health district urges the use of masks and social distancing.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
A $500 million megaproject to cure what ails traffic in Gorst? Local leaders are merging together on the idea for an elevated highway through the corridor. They've formed a coalition and are hiring a lobbyist in an attempt to secure state and/or federal funding.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
Bremerton schools' capital levy would construct a community fitness complex at Mountain View Middle School.2yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
This is the Bremerton burial plot of Benjamin and Angie Harrison. You'll always find their names here, unlike the hospital they helped found.4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
Nine years ago today, the new Manette Bridge opened, replacing the old green steel truss (b. 1930).3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
The USS Olympia today arrived in Puget Sound for decommissioning in Bremerton. Only the second vessel the Navy has named for the state capital.4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/olympia
A new downtown option, brought to us by a current Poulsbo downtown option.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
East Bremerton news: The KFC and Grocery Outlet store on Wheaton Way will be moving to the Bremerton Station development closer to Riddell Road.1yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
The USS Pittsburgh, a fast-attack submarine, is arriving in Bremerton for decommissing.5yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/navy
Before there was a Warren Avenue Bridge, there was Roosevelt Field. Built atop a dump during the New Deal, the field hosted concerts, circuses, and semi-pro baseball (among many other uses). It was torn down in 1992, sold by the city of Olympic College.4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
Kitsap County Commissioners to Gov. Inslee: let construction activity start up4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
The 240 Burwell apartments downtown are closing in on completion. Meanwhile, nearby Marina Square around the corner has been stalled for months.3yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
Downtown Bremerton, late 1960s, as the new J.C. Penney store is under construction. Today, though developer Ron Sher had vowed to remake it into a residential-retail property in 2007, it serves as a parking garage.4yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
Happy 60th anniversary to the Warren Avenue Bridge, which opened on Nov. 25, 1958.5yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
21 years ago today, Kona Village burned down in East Bremerton, killing four people, displacing 150 residents and leading the county's fire department leaders to make significant changes to fire sprinkler regulations.5yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Kitsap
Bremerton's Chase Building remodel, before and after. Which one do you like better?5yr ⋅ joshfarley ⋅ r/Bremerton
