SUQUAMISH — Students file into Suquamish Elementary’s E3 portable classroom with excited eyes as they each sit down with an empty plastic bucket at their feet and a wooden stick in each hand. The room dissolves into racketing chaos until Andrew Drury syncs the group into one mighty rhythm.
Boom, bah-bah, boom, bah, boom … Boom, bah-bah, boom, bah, boom!
POULSBO — In addition to improving businesses’ exteriors, trees can provide a different shade of green as well.
At least that’s what research by University of Washington professor Kathy Wolf has revealed in four different studies during the past eight years.
POULSBO — Monday will be a big day for North Kitsap High School sophomores.
North’s Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) testing starts Monday as students will take two of the exam’s four sections, said Dixie Husser, North Kitsap School District assistant director of teaching and learning.
Beginning with this year’s sophomore class, students will be required to meet WASL standards in all four sections in order to graduate.
OLYMPIA — Kingston to Seattle ferry service will float again.
Just before the Washington State Legislature ended its 2006 session Wednesday evening, lawmakers gave their financial backing to passenger-only ferry operations, which could include Aqua Express.
Call it new math meets old math but as the city of Poulsbo wrestles with the complex equation presented by its municipal campus, one thing is certain — there is no easy answer. The numbers on 10th and 7th avenues play a big role in finding out what X is but there are other factors that must also be considered.
Old Town Silverdale Art Walk March 10.
Story of “Lady of Burlesque†opens at
Bainbridge Performing Arts March 10.
WWCA debuts ‘James and the Giant Peach.’
‘Brokeback Mountain’ redefines a genre, and feeds the alternative media.
Christian songsters Shawn McDonald and Alli Rogers play Admiral March 9.
‘The Three Musketeers’ on stage at the Admiral Theatre March 11.
City officials try to address municipal campus concerns
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NK seniors Hill, Kramer also recognized on 2006 squad
Advent of KHS will split pool of North Kitsap’s student athletes
County feels ordinance will stand up to challenges.
Central Market takes lead in fund raising for 1918 LaFrance.
Johnathan Miller claims the fireworks show in Port Gamble this weekend will have the biggest fireworks in the state, and he ought to know. Miller is the owner of Boomtown Fireworks, which regularly puts on pyrotechnic displays, including the Poulsbo Third of July celebration.
Friday night’s show features a whopping 16-inch shell, which in fireworks is huge, Miller said.
KINGSTON — In most cases, when a school district opens a new high school, the graduating class of the new school’s first year is allowed to finish at the same place it has spent its high school tenure. But the North Kitsap School District is in a unique position which may not allow the norm.
KINGSTON — Students at Gordon Elementary School put on their Mardi Gras party hats, or rather, paper crowns, Tuesday as Kingston resident Wendy Tweten and her mother Lillian Asher turned Donna Faulk’s second-grade class room into a replica of downtown New Orleans.
With hands flailing in the air, the kids jumped and screamed, “Throw me something!†as Tweten produced an arm full of authentic Mardi Gras beads, rem