Are you a frustrated golfer, unable to estimate distance with reasonable accuracy? Perhaps you’re cursed with an incorrigible slice or would be content to swap your golf and bowling scores? Fret not, for what you lack in skill or aptitude can in part be acquired through technology. read more »

Omega Pest Management’s Todd Best, inside his newly remodeled Best Professional Building, formerly known as the “Old KBRO Building” in downtown Bremerton. Meet Todd Best, 28, President of Omega Pest Management, Inc. Todd acquired Omega in August 1996 from a Bremerton couple whom he met the while working at a local dive shop. At the time, Omega consisted of a single truck and a workload of “three to four hours every other day.” On his off-days Todd volunteered as an intern firefighter in Central Kitsap and continued part-time at the dive shop. read more »

Paganica, a game enjoyed by Roman emperors and their ilk, was played by driving a soft, feather-stuffed ball with a bent stick. Over the next thousand years the game surfaced in various forms throughout Europe and the British Isles, taking the name jeu de mail in France, het kolven in the Netherlands, cambuca in England, and, in late-1400s Scotland, golfe.

Rules for the game as we know it were codified in Scotland in 1744 by the Company of Gentlemen Golfers, now the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. Its rules committee, along with the USGA, still governs the sport. read more »