The Most Haunted Address in Silverdale’s Business History There is a building on Byron Street in Old Town Silverdale, steps from the waterfront, that has swallowed businesses whole for the better part of a century. Its story starts in the early 1900s, when the small farming community of Central Kitsap earned itself an unlikely nickname: […]
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Every Morning at 2 a.m., This Poulsbo Family Wakes Up to Make Kitsap’s Best Donuts by Hand
The Alarm Goes Off at 2:00 a.m. While Poulsbo is still dark and quiet, the marina lights reflecting off Liberty Bay, the downtown streets empty, the Scandinavian storefronts of Little Norway shuttered until morning, a family kitchen is already humming. The dough is being mixed. The ingredients are being measured by feel as much as […]
Sugar Studios Cafe Is Old Town Silverdale’s Most Charming Hidden Gem
Tucked along Lowell Street in Old Town Silverdale, steps from the waterfront park, there is a small cafe that most people in Kitsap County have never heard of, despite the fact that almost everyone who finds it describes it as one of the best discoveries they’ve made in the area. Sugar Studios Cafe is a […]
Cardtropolis TCG Is the Family-Run Silverdale Card Shop That Kitsap’s Pokemon and Magic Players Call Home
There is a particular kind of loyalty that builds around the best local game shops, the kind where players show up not just to buy cards but to sit down, compete, trade, and spend an evening with people who share the same obsession. Cardtropolis TCG, a family-run trading card shop on Ridgetop Boulevard in Silverdale, […]
Austin Chase Coffee Is the Silverdale Cafe Locals Call “the Last of a Dying Breed
There is a category of coffee shop that has almost disappeared from the Pacific Northwest, not a drive-through stand, not a chain with a loyalty app, not a trendy minimalist pour-over bar, but a genuine sit-down cafe where the staff know your name, your order, and something about your week. In Silverdale, that cafe is […]
Avalon Comics and Games Has Been Silverdale’s Gathering Place for Geeks, Collectors and Gamers Since 2008
There is a particular kind of store that becomes more than a store over time, one where regulars don’t just come to buy something but to belong somewhere. Avalon Comics and Games, located inside Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, has been that kind of place for the peninsula’s comic book readers, tabletop gamers, collectors, and hobbyists […]
Naturally 4 Paws: Silverdale Pet Store With Heart
Naturally 4 Paws: The Silverdale Pet Store Born From One Family’s Heartbreak and a Promise to Do Better Some businesses are built on opportunity. Others are built on something more personal, a loss, a lesson, and a determination that what happened to you will not happen to someone else. Naturally 4 Paws, Kitsap County’s only […]
Spread Supplies Is the Women-Owned Bremerton Art Store That’s Changing How Kitsap Creatives Shop
Bremerton has long held a reputation as one of the more arts-forward communities on the Kitsap Peninsula, home to murals, galleries, First Friday Art Walks, and a creative culture that punches above the city’s size. What it lacked, until recently, was something surprisingly fundamental: a locally owned art supply store that actually served that community. […]
Little Bee Home: Bremerton’s Charming Candle Brand Story
Some of the best businesses in Kitsap County started not with a business plan but with a moment of reaching for something calming in an uncertain time. Little Bee Home, Emily Adams’ handcrafted candle and home goods brand based in Bremerton, began exactly that way, with a pot of melting wax in 2020 and a […]
Typewriter Fever: The Bremerton Shop That Got a Personal Letter From Tom Hanks
Typewriter Fever: Bremerton Shop Tom Hanks Wrote To There is a shop on North Callow Avenue in Bremerton’s Charleston District where more than 200 typewriters line the shelves at any given time, machines from every decade of the twentieth century, each one mechanical, analog, and entirely indifferent to software updates. It is run by a […]