MILLER BAY — It’s a day the members of the Friends of Miller Bay were thrilled to see.
After working for seven years to preserve 18 acres of forest within the Miller Bay watershed, the group reached a milestone Monday.
Members were present as the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution, transferring the title of a portion of the property from the county to the Great Peninsula Conservancy.
POULSBO — A North Kitsap Regional Events Center could be a testament to the power of unification if and when it crosses the finish line several years down the road.
Substantial steps toward its creation were taken April 11 when the project’s four partnering boards — the Poulsbo City Council, the Kitsap Board of County Commissioners, the Kitsap Public Facilities District and the North Kitsap School District — each committed to come up with as much money as possible to get the project rolling.
BREMERTON — It was cold, wet, gray and miserable on the Gold Mountain links in Bremerton April 13, but the round went on as North Kitsap swept both the Knights and Lady Knights, battling against themselves, their opponents and the elements.
In the midst of unfavorable conditions, one of the most important assets a golfer can display is focus.
Johannes Brahms once wrote to his aunt, “I am in love with music, I love music, I think of nothing but music and of other things only when they make music more beautiful for me. You just watch: I’m going to write love songs again . . . to music itself.â€
Richard Wagner wrote “Siegfried’s Idyll†as a birthday gift for his wife Cosima, and as a celebration of their lives together. It also refers to the birth of their son, Siegfried.
POULSBO — Snider Park was ablaze with baseball fever April 8 for opening day of the North Kitsap Babe Ruth season. Unfortunately, by the end of the day, endless rain and spring temperatures had cooled the fire.
A continuous spring drizzle which intensified on and off throughout the weekend led to the cancellation of the final Major league contest Saturday and all four games scheduled for Sunday.
POULSBO — The search for fresh greens, bread and other organic produce will end Saturday morning as the Poulsbo Farmers Market begins its third season.
The market will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the corner of 7th Avenue and Iverson Street as it has moved from its former location behind the Group Health medical building.
“It gives us more visibility and it’s not going to be as hidden,†explained PFM market manager Jackie Aitchison.
April is also National Volunteer Month.
Last week I learned April was National Poetry Month. This week I learned it’s also National Volunteer Month.
KINGSTON — It’s expected to be a year of progress for parks in the North End, as the Village Green and North Kitsap Heritage Park will be receiving particular attention from the county.
A committee to help the county develop and determine funding sources for the Kingston Village Green is being formed, Kitsap County Facilities, Parks and Recreation director Mark Mauren told the Kingston Citizens Advisory Council April 5 during its monthly meeting.
KINGSTON — A constable of Spectrum Ravens set out on a journey yesterday that will fly them more than 2,300 miles to the Mexican state of Tlaxcala and into a whole new realm of life for nine days.
The students, carrying the theme of human rights, are traveling to immerse themselves into real-life Mexico as part of an annual opportunity that Spectrum teacher Phil Davis provides for deserving delegates from the school.
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.â€
Those famous lines are spoken by the character Jacque in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,†but they also ring true for many of the actors performing in the classic comedy at Changing Scene Theatre Northwest.
POULSBO — At a time when discovering valuable lessons is most important for today’s youth, North Kitsap’s Little League program offers a host of them, including teamwork, competition, confidence and pride.
And as more than 700 excited Little Leaguers gathered April 8 at Snider Park, proudly wearing their team colors to celebrate opening ceremonies, one could feel that it’s that time of the year again.
HANSVILLE — After several years of collecting data to establish what Hansville could look like by 2020, the committees behind the Greater Hansville Area Futures Project offered their findings to the community to see if they were within the realm of what residents desired.
POULSBO — What started out as seven teenagers doing a good deed during Spring Break turned into much more Thursday.
Instead of a small work party to help North Kitsap Fishline, North Kitsap Baptist Church Youth Pastor Duncan Forbes rallied 27 teens to help the organization with some much-needed spring cleaning.
Imagine slipping through a small hole in a vast expanse of thick Antarctic sea ice and descending down, down, down, into a primeval world that you may be the first human ever to visit. It’s cold, somewhere between minus 18 degrees Celsius and 10 degrees Celsius. You can feel it, even through your protective dry suit. Little light penetrates the icy lid above you.
Nothing likely will. Poulsbo’s Municipal Campus has been in the planning stages for years, yet city staffers still find themselves walled in a dilapidated maze of a structure on Jensen Way. Will the public allow them to find the cheese and the way to new digs? If so, when and more importantly, where?
POULSBO — Taking a line from Sheryl Crow’s song “A Change Would Do You Good,†Mayor Kathryn Quade envisions an interactive discussion between council members and the public during the April 19 town hall meeting on the municipal campus.
Quade announced the format change at the April 5 city council meeting when she expressed her opinions on the municipal campus issue for the first time as mayor.
Earth Day doesn’t officially take place until April 22, but what the heck, the West Sound Contradance Coalition is getting a jump on things by hosting an Earth Day Celebration a week early, with a day of dancing.
POULSBO — No Wal-Mart, no The Home Depot, no problem — at least according to the city’s March sales tax report.
Budget analyst Deb Booher told the city council’s finance/administration committee that last month’s report represents an historic first for the city from a financial standpoint.
“It’s the first time we’ve actually been over $200,000 and we’re doing very well,†Booher said.
POULSBO — After an hour of municipal campus discussion, it didn’t take the city council long to knock out a few remaining issues with the State Route 305 widening project Wednesday night.
In less than 20 minutes, the Council unanimously approved a traffic control/law enforcement agreement, a Transportation Improvement Board grant transfer and a land transfer with the Washington state Department of Transportation.
POULSBO — Brianna Oas, Brittany Girard and Amanda Dixon could easily be mistaken for the female version of the Three Amigos as they do all the things teen-aged girls enjoy with high school graduation fast approaching.
However, beneath the facade of smiling faces and carefree attitudes lurks a silent threat for one of them: cystic fibrosis.