Members of the Downtown Kingston Association will drive forward after being informed Thursday that their community doesn’t fit the requirements of the Washington State Main Street Program.
While disappointed the program, which helps towns improve their business corridors, will pass Kingston by, DKA members had already planned to go it alone if necessary.
SUQUAMISH — When 5,000 gallons of oil spread across the Puget Sound and washed up on the shores of the once pristine Doe-Kag-Wats Marsh Dec. 30, 2003, the Suquamish Tribe lost not only a valuable habitat, but a sacred space it had used for healing and worship throughout its history.
POULSBO — Beginning to line up teaching assignments for the 2007-2008 school year, the North Kitsap School District has one more 9-12 grade building to staff without any extra basic education money coming from the state.
Therefore, the district hopes to have a spot for each of its teachers next fall to cover them all. That could mean some teachers will be relocated according to what positions need to be filled.
Kitsap County voters will decide whether to approve a property tax increase to support library services in a special election on May 15.
“Our revenues haven’t kept up with our growth,” Kitsap Regional Libraries Director Jill Jean reported during a Library Board of Trustees meeting Feb. 22. “The demand for library services has increased at a much greater rate than our ability to pay for them.”
POULSBO — Another strong showing of Spectrum Community School support anchored the front end of the North Kitsap School District board meeting Feb. 22.
Amidst the controversy raised by the possibility of losing school principal and patriarch Chris Wendelyn next year, residents brought concerns to the board about a controversial recommendation made in regard to the alternative school’s anticipated structural addition.
PORT ORCHARD — The Kitsap County Commissioners voted Monday to expand the county’s shoreline buffers to an average of 50 feet, protecting those areas from new development while promising that existing structures can stay put.
“People who now have homes within the buffers will not lose their homes if there is a fire,” said North Kitsap Commissioner Chris Endresen. “They can always rebuild within the same footprint.”
INDIANOLA — Since construction began on the White Horse development and golf course, groundwater concerns from Indianola’s residents have continued to flow unabated. Residents and groups, including the Friends of Kitsap Creek and the Suquamish Tribe, are still working with Kitsap County and developer Bob Screen in hopes of clearing up not only their water sources, but their anxieties as well.
PORT GAMBLE — Port Gamble Bay will be more crowded than usual until spring due to 10 gigantic anchors which arrived Tuesday morning. They’ll be difficult to miss.
Each coffee-can shaped structure is roughly two stories tall, between 46 and 60 feet in diameter, and weighs between 995 and 1,385 tons — almost two and half times the weight of the Space Needle.
POULSBO — Little Norway isn’t as little as it was in 1994, and it won’t be the same size it is in 2007 as it will be in 2017.
With that in mind, the Poulsbo City Council and Planning Commission will meet from 6-8 p.m. tonight in the council chambers view the path they will take in updating the city’s comprehensive plan.
POULSBO — As a child, George Titterness remembers fishing in Dogfish Creek at the intersection of Bond Road and State Route 305.
“I didn’t catch anything because I was too little,” recalled Titterness, who is now the Washington state Department of Transportation construction engineer for the $14.9 million SR 305 widening project.
HANSVILLE — After a winter laced with frigid temperatures and enough snow to convince construction workers to stay indoors, many projects are starting to get back on track, including the Hansville based Sterling Highlands.
POULSBO — Despite a recent barrage of less than flattering letters to the editor in the North Kitsap Herald, North Kitsap Senior Center board president Joan Dooley believes there’s nothing wrong.
Washington State Ferries new electronic fare collection system introduced in Kingston.
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Help fund trip to perform in B.C.
POULSBO — With next year’s school schedules currently being created, the North Kitsap School District is hoping to determine how many parents of preschoolers are interested in all-day kindergarten.
Mounds of early childhood education research have hailed the benefits of the full-day program.
POULSBO — Less than a month after city Finance Director Nanci Lien took a position in Olympia, Al Juarez was tabbed to head the city’s finance department at Wednesday night’s city council meeting.
Juarez, who spent the past six and a half years working for the city of Shoreline, begins his duties in Poulsbo on Monday.