KINGSTON — With the predicted arrival of 100,000 new residents by the year 2025, the Kitsap County Department of Community Development has been working to ensure its infrastructure, policies and communities can accommodate the population increase.
It is doing so by updating the Kitsap County Comprehensive Plan, a document that lays the groundwork for planning issues from Port Orchard to Hansville.
Kingston’s Parks, Trails and Open Space Committee announced the names selected for the creeks that flow into Appletree Cove, based on community input and historical research from the last several months.
Kingston Community Center Foundation unveils plans and architect renderings of a new community center for the Village Green.
First Heritage Day to be celebrated Sept. 30.
Miss Kingston Pageant organizers thank sponsors.
Updates on issues in the North End
Stillwaters Environmental Center, Kitsap County, the Army Corps of Engineers and others are teaming up to restore and preserve the Carpenter Creek/Appletree Cove Estuary in Kingston.
Kingston family heads on adventure: to live abroad in Cyprus for a year.
Non-profit group ready to accept memberships to support the lighthouse.
Jim Thompson and his family have enjoyed an American chestnut tree since it was planted on their property in 1920.
Kitsap County Commissioner Chris Endresen talks about passenger-only ferries.
Sea it to believe it: our Marine Highway
KINGSTON — Irked neighbors are beginning to make waves about a private 220 foot dock that is proposed for Port Gamble Bay.
Residents, who first dismissed the project as being unfeasible, have since changed their tune and are now voicing concerns with the way the plans have been handled by the private residents who hope to build the structure. They also argue that insufficient notice of the project was given.
The Port Orchard Public Library is marking the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 in a hands on way, inviting patrons to come in and help create 1,000 folded origami cranes.
Origami cranes took on a special meaning after the book, “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes†was published, telling the true story of a young Japanese girl dying of leukemia from the effects of radiation poisoning from the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
It really is a shame that the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island doesn’t allow weddings. There is certainly no more romantic setting in Kitsap County. Willow trees drape languorously over a still pond. White swans drift on another, more secluded pond. The view from the lawn of the elegant mansion sweeps across Puget Sound, and there are flowers of some sort in bloom year round along trails winding through the woods.
POULSBO — With the first closure of State Route 305 nothing more than a memory, less than two weeks remain before a much longer shutdown of the highway hits North End motorists.
POULSBO — After five months of tinkering, adjusting and tweaking, the 1918 LaFrance fire truck the Poulsbo Fire Department purchased is finally up and running.
And while the historic vehicle’s heyday of racing to area fires has come and gone, it can travel short distances at slow speeds — making it perfect for parades.
The LaFrance, a $13,000 purchase, is identical to the city’s first fire engine, which arrived on the scene in 1936, Poulsbo Fire Department Chief Jim Shields said.
POULSBO — It’s a new year and one that the North Kitsap Viking girls soccer squad is set to make the best of.
With one of their biggest turnouts in recent years, an experienced returning varsity core and a league realignment leaving reputations at the door, the Vikings’ anticipation is great.
POULSBO — Purple racket is sounding out at the North Kitsap High School outdoor courts as shoes squeak the asphalt and tennis balls pop off of nylon mesh racquets; the tennis melody rings over the underlying teammate banter of the North Kitsap Vikings.
Though casual conversation is typically discouraged in the heat of preseason practice, this year’s Vikings have a lot to talk about.
In a race that boils down to sheer know-how and experience, incumbent Kitsap County Assessor Jim Avery deserves another term in office.
The North Kitsap Herald Advisory Board met with him and his challenger Kris Danielson Monday night and the former’s professionalism quickly distanced him from the latter, making this paper’s endorsement of Avery an easy decision.