POULSBO — A whole new crew of sailors and sea captains is headed to the shores of Little Norway for the Classic Yacht Association’s 11th annual rendezvous at the Port of Poulsbo beginning Friday.
POULSBO — It’s been four years since Liberty Bay saw the first of a string of autumn sewer leaks wash up on its shores. Five leaks and more than 900,000 gallons of discharged sewage later, city workers and the Liberty Bay Foundation are both heading into another fall season with fingers crossed in hopes a sixth spill won’t occur.
LITTLE BOSTON — A festival-like atmosphere spread over Little Boston residents as the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe made a point to celebrate its members and friends Friday and Saturday. Port Gamble S’Klallam Days 2007 started with a glitter-covered bang Friday evening with a princess pageant, and picked up speed from there.
KINGSTON — Motorists battling their way through the construction on Miller Bay Road could face even longer waits beginning this week. Due to paving at the road’s intersections with Indianola and Gunderson roads, delays could reach 30 to 40 minutes or more depending on the work.
POULSBO — Eighth graders Melissa Warren and Mallory Tidball are bearing a heavy load this school year, but not in the way one might imagine.
With only two minutes between periods — scarcely enough time to make it to class and definitely too short a stretch to visit the lockers — students are now packing several classes’ worth of texts on their backs as they travel the hallways each day. And according to Warren and Tidball, they are none too happy about it.
POULSBO — Little Norway’s streets may be a far cry from the busy hills of San Francisco, but one of the City by the Bay’s most famous attractions could soon be duplicated near the shores of Liberty Bay.
In the last year and a half, North Kitsap waters have been on a roller coaster ride in the levels of the biotoxin causing Paralytic Shellfish Poison, also know as red tide. There were a higher number of closures last fall and winter, when the biotoxin usually doesn’t make an appearance. This past summer, levels returned to normal, allowing the Suquamish Tribe to recover from what turned out to be a large economic hit caused by the red tide closures.
INDIANOLA — In order to remake the Bud Merrill Pavilion in Indianola, residents and volunteers are reducing everything to pieces and working from the ground up. The community gathering place was in desperate need of a makeover and now, with an anonymous backer, the project has begun by taking the whole thing apart to rebuild it.
POULSBO — Kingston’s Country Pet Shoppe owner Stephanie Stebbing said she always figured a large corporation pet store would find its way into North Kitsap.
All the same, when she first heard the news of a Petco planned for Poulsbo’s College Market Place, she had to take a moment to collect her heart from its proverbial drop to the floor.
WEDNESDAY 19 SENIORS WORKSHOP: There will be a free support and services for seniors workshop from 6:30-8 p.m. Sept. 19…
When the 2007-08 school year kicked off Sept. 5, Kingston Junior High School and Poulsbo Junior High School officially became middle schools for the first time.
However, the switch from junior high to middle school hasn’t adversely affected apparel at either North End school. Even though both of the schools made the transition, Kingston and Poulsbo retained their mascots and are still called the Cavaliers and Panthers respectively.
Traffic hinderance will continue from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through Sept. 28.
POULSBO — For the first time since the 2002-03 school year, wages for certified substitute teachers working in the North Kitsap School District have increased.
The small boost was unanimously approved by members of the NKSD School Board Wednesday and will result in substitute teachers receiving $110 per day for their first 29 days of work and $125 per day after their 30th day of work within the district. Prior to the bump, subs made $108 and $120 dollars per day, respectively.
HANSVILLE — During a Tuesday evening Greater Hansville Area Advisory Council meeting, members again made it clear the group, and area residents, should be taking the next steps laid out in the Hansville Futures Project. The only problem now is trying to find volunteers willing to put a little of their time into meetings and the shaping of their community.
KINGSTON — With every genre of literature represented, the Stillwaters Environmental Center turned the page on a new book sale yesterday, offering up wonderful treasures and fun reads. The sale, which benefits the center’s general fund, stretches over almost an entire month and this year will also boast a plant sale.
It was a day commemorated in every corner of the country, with flags flying half mast and hands over hearts during moments of silence carved into the busy flow of daily life, a flow that abruptly halted six years ago as Americans stopped and watched in unison an attack few could fathom.
POULSBO — It takes just a few simple clicks of a mouse, and the gateway to personal information can swing wide open through the public passageways of the Internet. With a name and address, enough knowledge can be found for accounts to be opened, items purchased, and havoc wreaked on a person’s life.
POULSBO — Local business owners will be workin’ for the weekend over the next several days, as they prepare for the Greater Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce’s Second Annual Business Fair Sept. 29.
SATURDAY 15 BOOK SALE: Stillwaters Environmental Center will host its annual book sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept….
SUQUAMISH — Children in Suquamish aren’t just getting a head start in their educations, they’re off to the races and have been running swiftly along the path since the Marion Forsman-Boushie Early Learning Center opened May 15.
The community converged at the center Sept. 7, celebrating the official grand opening of the 12,000-square-foot facility on Totten Road.