Sheri Bockelie is celebrating 25 years as owner of the Poulsbo Gallery of Hair Design, in the Poulsbo Village Shopping Center. In early 1990, the salon’s owner decided to downsize from two salons to one, and to sell the Poulsbo Village salon so she could focus on the salon in Port Orchard.
Pardon the alliteration, but just down the street from their place to eat, the Pickards have opened “Sweet Heat.” And it’s, ahem, pretty neat.
“While the signs on our buildings [have changed], the people inside are the same you’ve come to know and trust,” Banner announced on its website, BannerBank.com.
HANSVILLE — After 40 years, Big Maple Tree Farm is closing.
Owners Don and Suzanne Sandall, 90 and 80 years old respectively, say they’re too old to continue maintaining the property.
“After trimming trees for 40 years it’s getting kind of old,” Don said. “I’m 90 years old now … it just got to be too much.”
Tizley’s Europub and the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Salmon Hatchery are featured in a five-part culinary guide to Washington by the New York-based Munchies website and digital video channel.
The edgy series hosted by chef Tarik Abdullah takes viewers from Seattle to the San Juan Islands to the slopes of Mount Rainier and features the state’s most iconic and unusual foods, including salmon, geoduck and lutefisk.
The first thing that might strike a customer walking into Coast Do It Best Hardware is the variety of merchandise. Nuts, bolts, and wrenches? Got that and more.
POULSBO — The Poulsbo Lodging Tax Advisory Committee is recommending the City Council approve the following grants for 2016.
Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, and education and industry representatives helped the Port of Port Angeles break ground Sept. 21 on a new Composite Recycling Technology Center, at the port’s Composite Manufacturing Campus. Ed Stern, a Poulsbo City Council member, participated as chairman of the Central Puget Sound Economic Development District.
PBS program showcases Sluys Bakery on national broadcast
Restaurant strives to differentiate itself from chains
Restaurant features similar menu to its predecessor
Lori Maxim, Sound Publishing vice president and regional publisher, has named marketing veteran Dawn Leibold as advertising director for the Central Kitsap Reporter, Bremerton Patriot and Port Orchard Independent newspapers.
All employees of Poulsbo’s recently closed Albertsons were offered jobs at other stores in the region.
A Viking Avenue business owner will replace city-owned trees he removed between the curb and sidewalk in front of his business on June 27. In fact, Darren Hudson, owner of Hudson Auto Center, plans to go one step further — according to Mayor Becky Erickson, Hudson is working with city staff on a landscaping plan and will install irrigation so the new plantings will be watered regularly.
The positions range from engineers and contract specialists to skilled trades such as maintenance mechanics, electricians, and utility system operators. These positions are located at Naval Base Kitsap — Bangor, Naval Base Kitsap — Bremerton, Naval Station Everett, and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
Fueling the market: Low interest rates, a growing economy, improving consumer confidence
Flowers To Go is giving a free rose to veterans at all of its locations on May 22-23, to demonstrate, the company said in a press release, “appreciation for the sacrifices and successes made by service members past and present.”
That’s A Some Italian Ristorante celebrated its anniversary May 7.
An 11-year-old program that offers preventative dental hygiene to low-income children and seniors in the Puget Sound area is hoping to take their work on the road in their own mobile van soon.
Employees get a chance to visit France and learn traditional craft of crepe making.