Date archive: August 2017

We will miss the wit and wisdom of one of the great ones, Jud Heathcote.

JUD HEATHCOTE  By Terry Mosher   I wrote this story on Jud Heathcote in April of 2015. In it, you can see the Heathcote humor and his zest for life and for ...

Port Orchard’s Roy Schaefer scores another victory with Mach One Rules

MACH ONE RULES Roy Schaefer, who lives in Port Orchard, got another victory out of his 4-year-old gelding, Mach One Rule, on Sunday (Aug. 27) when it won the $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal ...

Registration now open for Bremerton fall adult City League basketball

    The Bremerton Parks and Recreation is now accepting team registrations for an adult basketball league that runs from Oct. 3 to Nov. 30 and includes eight division games and an ...

It says here that McGregor will do the unthinkable and defeat the great Mayweather

TERRY MOSHER CONOR MCGREGOR     All empirical evidence says that Floyd Mayweather will become the first professional boxer to go unbeaten after 50 fights by beating Conor McGregor Saturday night in ...

Funston to give low down on fantasy football Wednesday at the Cloverleaf

BRANDON FUNSTON   This is the season for fantasy football and if you want to get an extra edge, show up Wednesday (Aug.30) at 6 p.m. at the Cloverleaf Sports Bar & ...

It’s time to end the costly war in Afghanistan and bring out troops home

TERRY MOSHER   The Trumpster, after consolations with his military advisers, will announce Monday what his administration’s plans for the nearly 16-year war in Afghanistan will be. It’s been a costly war. ...

Somebody in Congress needs to shine light on the darkness of Trump before he destroys us all

TERRY MOSHER     Boy, future psychologists will have a field day when they dissect Donald Trump. He is a fascinating study because he is such a dark human being and, yet, ...

The darkness of Trump leads to the rise of the KKK and white nationalists that threatens us all

TERRY MOSHER If you have an doubts about the darkness that Donald Trump continuously spews than the delay of 48 hours it took him before he finally denounced the KKK, Neo-Nazis and ...

Trump the Fraud must be stopped before it is too late

TERRY MOSHER   Donald Trump, I think we all can agree, is a very dangerous, unhinged man. He has a dangerous need to be first among equals – no, first among everybody ...

Talk about profiles in courage, well, Kris (Mosher) Butts had the most courage of anybody

TERRY MOSHER   John K. Kennedy and Ted Sorensen co-wrote Profiles in Courage that detailed eight United States Senator. The book was published in 1955 and two years later won a Pulitzer ...

We must never forget our past to have a better present

TERRY MOSHER I still get chills when I hear Billie Holiday sing “Strange Fruit.” Those chills came again just now as I listened again to the song, which was originally written in ...

Stuart left a big (and unwelcome) impact on Elton Goodwin

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Outtakes NO. I: Getting autographs, getting some revenge and blowing the whistle on the boss

TERRY MOSHER BILL BUMERTON   OUTTAKES  These are things that slip through the cracks when writing stories and I and my friend Bill Bumerton felt it would be great for others to ...