City will hire code enforcement officer to help crack down on owners who don’t keep their properties up to code.
Search for a new chief will take a new approach; officials will involve local police chiefs
The Poulsbo Marine Science Center is now the Western Washington University SEA Discovery Center. The change in operation, celebrated May 24, takes effect on June 1.
Poulsbo housing construction is booming along the northern and eastern city limits with 1,161 new homes or apartments on the books.
Housing Kitsap and Sound West Group are looking at the feasibility of building affordable-rent apartments on south Viking Avenue
63 winners of first en plein air art event Paint Out Poulsbo contest exhibit their works at NCAD
Western Washington University takes over responsibility on May 24
Poulsbo Public Works is mapping and inspecting 137 miles of sewer and stormwater lines in an effort to proactively anticipate the need for future repair and replacement.
Parties agree to smaller buffer for wetlands at proposed Arendal apartments due to changes in state code.
“You commissioned me to do you a ‘Big Mac and fries,’” said Mayo, referring to the City Council’s original request for the painting of a troll. “And I’ve given you a steak and fine wine.”
There’s a large and growing stack of sandwich boards at the City of Poulsbo public works yard, 780 NE Iverson St. “These are just the ones our crews have picked up along SR 305,” Public Works Superintendent Mike Lund said of the signs, which had been placed without permits and were confiscated by the city.
For more than 40 years, the informal foot path at the end of James Street had been the public’s only access to the beach in northeast Suquamish. At the end of March, Kitsap County Public Works fenced off the path with a $1,500, 40-foot-long, eight-foot-high chain link fence put up at taxpayers’ expense.
Your recyclables are already picked up by a private waste management firm. At a March 30 workshop, Poulsbo City Council members reviewed a proposed request for proposals from private waste management firms to collect the rest of your garbage, too.
The Brass Kraken ribbon-cutting was at 5:15 p.m. April. 1 and by 5:45, owners James Conlon, John Mackowski and Frank Zoboroski estimated 230 patrons had jammed inside for the soft opening of the new restaurant on the downtown Poulsbo waterfront at 18779 Front St. NE.
After a warm week of sunshine, the weekend brought April showers and the opening of the Poulsbo Farmers Market in a new location: the Poulsbo Parks and Recreation parking lot, 19540 Front St NE.
With the coming of Rainy Daze Brewing Co., Poulsbo will be No. 1 in the USA in terms of number of breweries per capita. Really.
There’s no way to know if or when a disaster will strike. But you can be prepared. “People always want to know what do you do first after an earthquake or disaster,” said Billie Dunford, volunteer disaster preparedness coordinator for Point No Point View Estates. “I tell them, you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
The North Kitsap Fire & Rescue Board of Commissioners will have a public hearing at 7:15 p.m. March 28 on transferring the department’s interests and liabilities in the assets of CenCom to Kitsap County for the reorganization and re-establishment of CenCom as a separate legal entity.
Imagine living in a place where the shops, parks, medical offices, work, restaurants and schools are all within easy walking distance — a multigenerational neighborhood that offers a range of living choices and costs, a place with trees, walking trails and bike paths, and a park.
There was a time, at the beginning of the 20th century, when most Americans lived in villages or village-like neighborhoods within a city. Residents could walk to work, their children walked to a nearby school, and most of life’s needs — the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker, if you will — were also within easy walking distance.