After cutting 10 percent of its workforce and trimming expenditures in every department, the City of Poulsbo has avoided pulling a planned $400,000 from reserves.
A prospective buyer for the City of Poulsbo’s former city hall site has ended purchase discussions with local officials, but not before sparking conversation on whether a hotel belongs in the downtown corridor.
A monthly budget of $266 would provide a sliver of what most families require, but “it’s better than nothing,” Rose Malott said.
She would know; Malott and her husband, Paul Irish, live in their car in Poulsbo. Both are jobless and receive $266 a month from the Department of Social and Health Services as their only source of income.
More than 150 candidates applied for two open positions at the City of Poulsbo, marking the first time the city will hire new staff since cutting 11 percent of its workforce to save money last year.
Safeway Inc. is developing plans for a potential 56,000-square-foot grocery store at the corner of Tenth Avenue and Lincoln Road in Poulsbo.
In a Peruvian courtyard a woman wept, mourning the terminal diagnosis handed that day, like a cruel sentencing, to her 9-year-old child.
A clown peered from behind a pillar, catching the woman’s eye. His eyebrows danced mischievously before he retreated behind the pillar, beginning a quiet game of hide-and-seek between strangers. And the woman laughed.
The Poulsbo Marine Science Foundation came to a tentative agreement with the City of Poulsbo, offering $15,000 for building repairs at the Marine Science Center on Front Street so long as its lease in the building is renewed.
Less than six months after moving into its new municipal campus, the City of Poulsbo may scramble the building’s floor plan so its police department can take over space formerly intended for the Bainbridge Island Municipal Court.
A recent exchange between City of Poulsbo staff and a concerned citizen that led to the citizen’s removal from a public meeting has drawn both criticism and applause. Poulsbo Mayor Becky Erickson was thanked and chided for asking Molly Lee, a land owner in Poulsbo’s Urban Growth Area, to leave a recent meeting in which Erickson said Lee was disruptive. The trouble came when Lee challenged a city planner and voices began to rise, Erickson said. “That’s where I start to draw the line,” she said.
For 20 years, the Poulsbo Historical Society has carefully collected artifacts and antiques from the area’s founding families. And for 20 years, those well-preserved items sat in storage.
A new water feature in Poulsbo’s Fish Park is the latest of many volunteer efforts to expand the park’s amenities and preserve its open space for public use.
The City of Poulsbo is ending negotiations with the City of Bainbridge Island to relocate the island’s municipal court to the Poulsbo City Hall, according to an email from Poulsbo Mayor Becky Erickson acquired by the North Kitsap Herald.
Congregants of First Lutheran are celebrating the church’s 125th anniversary this year with several events over the coming months.
When friends visit Debra and James Grigg at their home on Viking Avenue, they almost always make the same observation.
“When someone comes over to the house they say, ‘This is a piece of the country right in the city,’ ” Debra Grigg said.
POULSBO — An arbitrator will decide the outcome of a contract negotiation between the City of Poulsbo and the Poulsbo Police Officers Association after the two entities failed to settle on wage and benefit terms in discussions that stretched nearly two years.
Poulsbo’s Mayor Mitch was remembered Saturday at a memorial service in Sons of Norway hall as a man of bear hugs and bib overalls, who learned his values in the fields of Oklahoma and carried them decades later into elected office.
The largest residential development ever proposed in Poulsbo would place more than 600 housing units at the city’s northern edge if approved by city leaders this spring.
Poulsbo officials are fine-tuning terms of a lease with the City of Bainbridge Island in an effort to relocate the island’s municipal court to Poulsbo’s new City Hall.
Jackie Hudson doesn’t look like a woman who has done time in federal prison.
She wears a peace dove T-shirt and her grey hair short. Petite though she is, Hudson speaks in a strong, clear voice.
“We’re playing with death,” she says. “Not individual death, but deaths of millions.”
The youngest bank in Washington state has a new president and CEO, and he’s of no mind to deal with shrinking assets, bad loans or job cuts.
Rick Darrow came to Poulsbo to help Liberty Bay Bank grow.
Kitsap County Commissioner Steve Bauer will resign at the end of February.
The Hot Shots Java owner succeeds longtime councillor Dale Rudolph.
Officials hope more volunteers will step forward.
