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Kitsap Culture found that just within our Kitsap region, print media is held mostly by three main groups: The McClatchy Company holds the nearby News Tribune out of Tacoma which maintains dedicated coverage of news in the lower part of the Kitsap region - Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula the Kitsap Sun, which belongs to USA Today, a holding of the Gannett Co. Inc., which maintains a dedicated coverage of Bainbridge Island and the Kitsap region above Gig Harbor and Key Peninsula and Sound Publishing Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian publisher Black Press Group Ltd., runs multiple local papers including the Bainbridge Island Review, Central Kitsap Reporter, Kingston Community News, North Kitsap Herald, and the Port Orchard Independent. Of these three entities, Sound Publishing and the Kitsap Sun maintain overlapping coverage of the Kitsap region above Gig Harbor, including Bainbridge Island. Josh said, “The Kitsap region, including Seattle, is a really crowded media market. It allows for more depth of storytelling.” “ I would really like to see us take on a podcast. Kitsap Culture wondered what other products Josh might have in the works or on his mind. I think what people like about living here is that it is smaller than Seattle and it's a city unto itself.”
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It's like a spoke wheel that connects to so many different Bremerton neighborhoods, and that so many people can access and enjoy. The walking route really connects Bremerton. I walk it every day and I never get tired of it. This town still has some of this great history, and if we can create a groundswell of support, and actually make this a bona fide route and improve the walking path around it, we could have something to surface this history. We could even partner with the Navy throw up a calisthenics trail with pull up bars and push up bars, and it's your three mile loop to get your dailyworkout! We could have something really incredible here. It's more than a sidewalk, it's a promenade, and you're overlooking this gorgeous view of the Port Washington Narrows and the wider Sinclair Inlet. The Manette Bridge really kicked things off. On lower Wheaton way, the sidewalk actually used to be below the roadway. So that's the first layer.” “ Secondly, I love history, and the route is littered with amazing history of Bremerton from the very beginning up until now. We have an epidemic of obesity, and I worry people spend too much time in their cars, so Bridging Bremerton is a great way to get people active and out onto pathways.
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I love pathways, things that take people places. Imagine you're an urban planner and wonder if sidewalk planning increases health and, happiness. I'm super curious if they do that. I really want to study sidewalks and see how they impact a community. We asked him how he came up with the idea of Bridging Bremerton and this is what he had to say about the walk, and thoughts of what it could become. I view this form of advertising as the back page ad of the future – ‘this event is sponsored by.’ I think that's how we can survive by cultivating the community's conversation, the community's culture." And that's what other publications are going to for events. It gave her a chance to fit in and talk about the market. One of the first was real estate agent, Daphne Gibler of Manette, a sponsor for the 1918 home tour. They have grown to the point they’re now sponsored and can help us sustain our organization. I love it, and the community and history of it. Story Walks allow me to get out into those neighborhoods on foot with our readers. The whole idea of this dense downtown with this cool housing stock, that's what really drew me to Bremerton. That's one of the things that captivated me about Bremerton, the entire grid of Bremerton itself. You go down Washington Avenue you see most of the original homes, for instance, built in the early 20 th century. “Anthropologically, you can really get a sense of a neighborhood by walking it here in Bremerton. Josh Farley, a reporter for the Kitsap Sun, is originally from Portland, Oregon, and following his graduation from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2003, he moved to the Puget Sound region with his wife, Rosemary. He worked at the North Kitsap Herald for two years starting in 2003, and has been with the Sun since 2005.Īmong activities he’s promoted while at the Sun are: Kitsap Trivia Night at the Manette Saloon, started in 2011 Story Walks that began in 2014 the Bremerton Beat Blast in 2015 and Bridging Bremerton in 2018. Kitsap Culture wanted to find out what inspires Josh about his community and motivates him to launch efforts that bring community together. This is what he had to say.