POULSBO — Poulsbo City Council members spent the days leading up to Wednesday night’s open house wondering if anyone would show up. When 25 people appeared in the council chambers, council members got their answer.
They also heard more than a little about one issue that refuses to go away: downtown parking.
POULSBO — Night driving on State Route 305 could take an interesting turn in July as sewer improvements from Bond Road to Hostmark Street would result in temporary intersection closures.
The work, which involves installing a force main along SR 305, is part of the necessary public works improvements tied to the Olhava development, said City of Poulsbo Project Engineer Andrzej Kasiniak.
POULSBO — If the doubles tennis strategy that claims, “the team that lets the ball bounce least, wins,” is true, then the two North Kitsap pairs who headed into the West Central District Tournament yesterday are bona-fide proof.
POULSBO — With hostile action in Iraq and Afghanistan reverberating noticeably from its temporary lull, more American soldiers are making the ultimate sacrifice.
Those sacrifices as well as the service of generations gone by will be remembered as veterans from four major conflicts gather to pay tribute on Monday beginning at noon at Poulsbo’s Waterfront Park.
BREMERTON — The Narrows League fastpitch playoff match-up pitting the North Kitsap Vikings and the Stadium Tigers Monday was decidedly more about positioning than it was about winning.
TACOMA — North Kitsap starting pitcher Jared Prince’s 12 strikeout, two hit, complete game shutout was a stellar outing that led to a 1-0 win Monday. The victory avenged the team’s Narrows League Championship loss the week before to the Olympia Bears.
POULSBO — As onlookers huddled around Kvelstad Pavilion Sunday afternoon hoping to catch a glimpse of a lutefisk clash of the titans, reigning champion Charles Jensen was all smiles.
KINGSTON — Racing down 5-foot tall ramps with 16-feet of runway Saturday in Kingston were this year’s Cub Scouts, complete with wide eyes and tooth-missing grins.
The make-shift soap box derby launchers brought Cub Scouts from far and wide to test their mettle on the back drags of My Girl Drive-In and Museum during the Fourth Annual Cubmobile Fun’razin races.
Kitsap County is providing property owners outside the county’s urban density boundaries of Suquamish and Kingston the opportunity to have access to urban amenities, as well as a say in how the area will grow during the next 20 years.
KINGSTON — Nancy Mullins has travelled around Central America as a missionary, been a wilderness guide in the woods of Minnesota, worked as a volunteer at schools in many states and held odd jobs at numerous points in between.
She’s finally arrived at what she believes is the most crucial of all tasks — teaching the next generation.
POULSBO — Once more, Lee Hodin is the reigning king of the 5-mile Viking Fest Road Race.
Hodin, a science teacher at Poulsbo Junior High School and cross country coach of the high school’s team, won the event for the third year in a row — out of the only three times he’s run it — with a 26:46 time.
POULSBO — If your preschoolers have schooled you into literally finding Nemo or his buddy, Gil, but the idea of going to Seattle or Tacoma gives you motion sickness, then Mario Pugh has all the answers.
Or most of them, at least.
POULSBO — North Kitsap School Board President Catherine Ahl may be focusing on local district issues these days but it’s her work in fighting against a statewide initiative that’s earned her acclaim from the Washington Education Association (WEA).
POULSBO — The 37th annual Viking Fest got off to a thunderous start Friday afternoon and the festivities — and inclement weather — kept roaring along throughout the weekend ending with a boom as festival-goers left town on Sunday afternoon.
POULSBO — On paper, the preliminary plat application for the Vetter Homestead appeared tailor-made for approval. However, two words brought the wheels of the Poulsbo City Council to a near halt Wednesday night: open space.
Council members struggled with the open space concept before finally giving their unanimous approval to the proposed 93-unit subdivision on eastside of Vetter Road NE, near Viking Way and State Route 3.
Question: What do 30,000 people, horned helmets, loin cloths and lye-soaked codfish all have in common?
If you’re in Poulsbo today, the answer is as clear as the lutkesans on your face.
HANSVILLE — Normally, a bright orange condemnation tag posted on the outside of a well-used building isn’t a welcome sign.
But for the Hansville Community Church Pastor Greg Uvila, it is helping energize and motivate his congregation to move forward with plans for bigger facilities.
KINGSTON — There was a collective gasp from a half-dozen North Kitsap Fire & Rescue staff members and commissioners in their conference room around 8:15 p.m. May 17.
The Kitsap County Auditor’s office had just posted the first unofficial results of the agency’s proposed tax levy increase ballot measure and they were positive — 56.65 percent voted “Yes” and 43.35 percent voted “No.”
POULSBO — Organizing 135 teams, 2,000 young soccer players and making happy the approximately 2,500 parents who will watch the youngsters in next weekend’s annual Viking Cup is quite the challenge for this year’s director, Cam Corey.
POULSBO — Budget cuts and a tweaking of “educational alignment” is the motivation behind a districtwide reassigning of several administrators, North Kitsap School District Supt. Gene Medina said Thursday.