Election season got rolling with the North Kitsap Herald Advisory Board this week as school board primary candidates initially looking forward to a forum-type setting instead found themselves in the hot seat…
RESTORATION POINT — Noah Barfield’s concerns about coming up short in the “Crossing for Kids,” swim across Puget Sound came true, unfortunately.
Barfield was done after three miles, in a race that stemmed from Restoration Point on Bainbridge, to Alki Beach, near Seattle, due to exhaustion.
POULSBO — Even though the Hood Canal Bridge opened earlier than expected this weekend, Washington State Department of Transportation officials are cautioning motorists not to count on a repeat performance during the second closure.
The bridge will close again at 8 p.m. Aug. 21 and won’t reopen until 4 a.m. Aug. 25 as workers will be replacing the bridge’s 640-foot west end.
KINGSTON — Andrea Strunk can describe her crowning moment at last weekend’s Miss Kingston Scholarship Pageant in a single word: “surreal.”
“This is something I’ve always dreamed of,” said Kingston’s new and slightly breathless reigning miss as friends and photographers flocked around her post-pageant. “It’s been hard work, but also a lot of fun.
HANSVILLE — Nice weather, better event organization and no pre-sales are three factors that Hansville Rummage Sale organizer Tony Atkinson believes made the annual event such a success last weekend.
“It went terrifically,” he said. “I’m most certain it was the best one ever.”
POULSBO — Merchants in Poulsbo Village are enjoying the calm before the storm as the shopping center prepares for the 17th annual Touch A Truck event Saturday.
Tow trucks, buses, fire trucks, a police car and even a cement-mixing truck and a garbage truck will all be part of this year’s event, said Poulsbo Village Property Manager Beverly Lyon.
POULSBO — Under a white canopy in the Northwest Design Center parking lot, former Marine Science Center docent Barry Babcock appeared to take a step back in time Friday and Saturday.
HANSVILLE — For the better part of a decade, Wolfle Elementary teacher Sue Ahrens has been taking her students into the woods behind the school, giving them a hands-on lesson in earth science better than any textbook ever could.
POULSBO — After last week’s heated discussion over the selection of the facilitator for the city’s visioning process, council members met the issue head-on one more time Wednesday night.
POULSBO — Walking through the framed and freshly built structures of the new West Sound Academy Campus, head of school Nellie Baker stops inside a room that will soon house one of two high-tech, state-of-the-art science labs.
“This will not be a science program where you read a textbook and answer the questions in the back,” she says with a smile.
KINGSTON — It’s a house that seems to be worth saving again and again.
At least that’s what Kingston couple Kate D’Archangel and Jason Manges have believed the past three years.
When they purchased one of Kingston’s original turn of the century homes on the corner of Ohio Street and 3rd Avenue in October 2002, they knew it had charm and potential to be a wonderful place for their young family.
POULSBO — Even though construction of the Olhava Wal-Mart continues to move at a rapid pace, contractors asked the city council for more time to work on the project.
The city only allows construction work from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. unless a variance is granted by the council, and Trip Griffin and Brad Larson from CSI Contractors brought that request to the elected body Aug. 3.
POULSBO — After weathering through a rather drab first six weeks, the Wednesday Poulsbo Farmers Market now explodes with color as squash, tomatoes and other summer sensations.
Market organizers have been pleased with the overall success of the of the first-year market, even though it has yet to draw crowds that rival those of the Saturday market.
VINLAND — Even though Verizon has yet to file a formal application with the City of Poulsbo for a proposed facility near Vinland Elementary School, neighbors are already giving a clear signal about their concerns.
The British invasion of the 1960s is alive and well in Poulsbo and while most of the bands taking the stage at Mudstock are just plain “Yanks,” the mastermind of it all was likely weaned on tea and crumpets, football (i.e. soccer) and statements like “God save the Queen.”
POULSBO — The drive off of State Route 305 to Forest Rock Lane will be a smoother ride once the road is resurfaced in September.
Contracts for the $193,418 project are expected to be completed in the next two weeks with work expected to be wrapped up by mid-October.
HANSVILLE — After nearly 50 years of serving the community in two different capacities, the apparatus bay of the old Hansville Fire Station was demolished last week.
A structural inspection by the Kitsap County Department of Community Development in late April revealed cracks in the facility’s walls and the county cited it unsafe for occupancy.
POULSBO — While city council candidate Kimberlee Crowder may be unopposed in the upcoming election, that doesn’t mean she won’t be out campaigning with the rest of the field.
“I’m definitely going to put the time in to get something out to the public, so people know who I am and why I’m running,” said Crowder.
KINGSTON — When Heidi Nicks steps down from her reign as the 2004-05 Miss Kingston this weekend, a new young woman will be offered the same opportunities to grow in many of the same ways she did this past year.
POULSBO — For at least one day a week, the smells of split pea soup, lefse and sometimes rullepulse drift down Front Street whetting the appetites of lunchtime visitors.
Following one’s nose leads to the Sons of Norway lodge and the sights of open-face sandwiches and other Norwegian delicacies waiting to be eaten at Kaffe Stua.