First day of school anxiety will be felt by students in the North Kitsap School District as much as it is anywhere in United States, as scores of schools around the country get underway following the Labor Day holiday.
And though teachers, principals and counselors will be ready to help students make the transition into the year smoothly, nerves can put to ease before the three-day weekend, by those most familiar to the students — their moms and dads.
KEYPORT — It’s not often that airmen, sailors and soldiers have the opportunity to participate in live-fire exercises demonstrating the full arsenal that each brings to the field of combat.
However, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center at Keyport is doing its part to give officers and enlisted personnel that capability in a simulated environment.
POULSBO — After gearing up for their second annual auto auction, members of the Greater Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce came out all smiles as every car sold Tuesday evening.
Both Chamber Executive Director Stuart Leidner and Kevin Hogan of Liberty Bay Auto, who spearheaded the event, called it a definite winner.
KINGSTON — Aqua Express officials have tried to keep their financial books afloat for as long as they could but factors, including the recent increase in fuel prices, have sunk the efforts of the privately-owned passenger-only ferry service.
However, proponents aren’t completely down as they hope to have service up and running again next summer.
POULSBO — One soccer program at North Kitsap High School was just not enough for Pat Stickney.
The veteran coach, who has already about-faced the Vikings’ boys program from almost winless to playoff bound in a two-year span, replaced retiring girls coach Teri Ishihara in the off-season.
KINGSTON — For 23rd Dist. State Rep. Beverly Woods (R-Kingston), Thursday’s fatality at the Gunderson and Bond roads intersection reinforced her desire to have a traffic light installed there.
POULSBO — The 32-year NK football coaching reign of Jerry Parrish may be over, as well as the three-year era of far-flinging quarterback Jared Prince and a talented pass offense.
But not everything is different on the 2005 Viking football team.
Though there are many new faces — among them new head coach Steve Frease, quarterback Paul Stock and a large up-and-coming sophomore and junior class — the old guard of coaching and the traditional “wing T” offense remains.
POULSBO — All the noise being generated from ongoing construction in Olhava will eventually translate into a financial windfall, but city officials aren’t counting on it prematurely.
City departmental budgets for 2006 should remain much the same as last year’s with few changes, said Finance Director Nanci Lien.
NORTH END — At first glance, they look like deputies. They have a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office patrol car with similar insignia and lighting, and they wear the khaki brown and olive green uniforms with dark trim.
POULSBO — Miss Kingston Andrea Strunk wasn’t alone in distributing backpacks filled with school supplies to participants in North Kitsap Fishline’s back-to-school program Monday morning.
POULSBO — Conversations between city officials and Sungard HTE, the provider of the city’s new software program, continue as both parties work toward efficiently using taxpayer dollars with the implementation of the program.
Once the software is fully operational, residents will be able to pay bills online, check on the status of city projects, and even file complaints via the Internet.
POULSBO — No matter whether the Mariners, Seahawks or Sonics are lighting up the big screen or if rabid Dawgs or Cougs fans are looking for a place to catch the game, the Front Street Bar and Grill has everything a sports fan could want and then some.
When it comes to the Washington Assessment of Student Learning — a test all incoming 10th graders must pass in order to graduate — improvements are better served in small doses and not in huge gains.
The same goes for dips in the assessment’s scores: despite the looming deadline for mandatory passage of the test, significant declines aren’t worth getting bent out of shape about.
HANSVILLE — While community activists often spend time working on projects that have immediate results, a group of people has spent the past year organizing a project that could cater to the area’s needs down the road, long after today’s activists are gone.
The result of the work of 30 volunteers is the Hansville Futures Project, which aims to create a vision for the area based on various concepts of community living.
KINGSTON — North Kitsap Fire & Rescue recently received a grant that will help firefighters stay healthy and safe while helping the district save money on utility bills as well.
U.S. Congressional Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Bainbridge Island) announced Aug. 23 that NKF&R has been awarded a $110,528 grant to allow the district to retrofit its apparatus bays in four of its staffed fire stations with improved vehicle exhaust systems
POULSBO — Co-ops. Christian schools. Montessori schools. Day-cares.
There are many kinds of preschools for 3-5 year olds, who are in a critical stage of childhood development.
And just what kind of school will Naomi Gormanson, owner and teacher of the new Big Leaps Preschool off Rova road, establish?
POULSBO — In the same way former NK boys basketball coach Aaron Nations decided to return to his roots when he took a position in Everett this past spring, Derek Anderson, too, will be coming home in replacing him.
Anderson, a former Olympic College, South Kitsap and Bremerton High School basketball player, was officially hired Aug. 25 to take over the North Kitsap position.
They’re separated only by a bridge and a few miles — 11.2 to be exact. But the battle between Bainbridge and North Kitsap in football has been as fierce as the Hatfields and the McCoys.
POULSBO — Fried green tomatoes may have been good enough for Tinseltown, but the unripe veggies didn’t make the cut in Little Norway as the second annual Poulsbo Farmers Market Tomato Taste Off was postponed Saturday.
Last year, 38,000 people in Washington died at the hands of secondhand smoke. While not all of them worked in establishments where such an atmosphere is the norm, we feel cutting back on such scenarios is critical in reducing the risk of smoking-related illnesses and death in the future.