LITTLE BOSTON — After being turned in late to the proverbial book drop, the new Little Boston Library construction contract has been signed, and the project is ready to begin — minus the usual late fees and a stern look from the Librarian.
The project, which broke ground in June 2006, will be the final building in the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s House of Knowledge complex. It has also been the toughest to fund.
KINGSTON — Throughout the passenger-only ferry rigmarole that has enveloped Kingston and the rest of Kitsap County, many North End business owners have been excited by the possibilities of economic growth.
They recently weighed in on Proposition 1 — which would bring a Kitsap Transit run ferry to Kingston within six to seven months by raising the sales tax by 3/10ths of a cent — and explained how that small raise in prices might affect business and tourism in the North End.
CHELAN — Jay Witherbee knows firsthand the pros and cons associated with dissolving a city’s police department and contracting those services out to the local sheriff’s office.
As the current mayor of Chelan, Witherbee said he was the lone holdout when the Chelan City Council voted to contract the city’s police force with the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office in November 2003.
POULSBO — In keeping with its tradition of evolving to meet the community’s needs, Martha and Mary officials are once again looking at a possible shift.
That change could spell more independent living facilities and a relocation of its headquarters, though no exact location has been made public.
“Right now everything is real preliminary,” said Martha and Mary executive director Denney Austin.
“Murder in the Klondike” helps beat winter blahs
By Kitsap County Commissioner, District #1
LAS VEGAS – Miss Washington Kristen Eddings glided across the Miss America stage with confidence Friday evening, dressed in a…
Mimi Smith-Danielson and Brad Camp set up business in town
A fair will be held Feb. 3 with 11 local private schools
Organization looks to buy legendary gardens from Burpee
Teachers at Kingston Junior High learn about mental illness in adolescents, treatments, and how to work with parents on keeping kids engaged in school.
Readers sent in stories about their encounters with wildlife in the area.
The North Kitsap School District released a tentative schedule that includes additional half-days of school for students to make up for those missed during the winter storms.
Phoenix Bed and Breakfast open for business
LAS VEGAS — Miss Washington Kristen Eddings who soon know if she will be the next to don the Miss…
KINGSTON — When registered psychiatric nurse Colleen Williams spoke to students in Christine Jamison’s Kingston Junior High School classroom Thursday, she had a bluntly resounding message.
“It’s not good to light anything on fire and suck it into your lungs,” Williams said during “The Real Inside Story,” a presentation from the Choice and Consequence Organization.
KINGSTON — By springtime, the drab courtyard of the NK Options program at Gordon Elementary will be tiled with a mosaic touch of bright colors.
Options, a multi-age family-based learning alternative for students, recently coordinated its artistic efforts to create thematic illustrations out of a community of ceramic tiles. After students designed and painted the tiles in their classrooms, Options parent Holly Dalphinidae took the artwork to be fired at the Dancing Paint Brush in Poulsbo.
County Sheriff Steve Boyer said he believes the idea has potential. “Poulsbo is a great department, and I think the…
POULSBO — In an attempt to calm the storm surrounding a process study of the Poulsbo Police Department, Mayor Kathryn Quade clearly stated Wednesday the review doesn’t necessarily spell the last days of the department.
But the implication that it could was enough to bring dark clouds to city hall.
POULSBO — As work on Poulsbo Place II began in 2005, Poulsbo Place resident Dolores Lynch was among those keeping a close eye on the project.
After meeting with David Smith and Barry Keenan of Central Highlands Builders, the company developing the property, in the spring of 2005, Lynch thought Poulsbo Place II would be a nice match to its counterpart.
