If financial stability was a paddle, the Marine Science Center in Poulsbo would once again be up the creek without it.
POULSBO — It was not exactly the way the North Kitsap Babe Ruth 15-year-old All Stars expected to earn a state berth.
In the championship game, North Kitsap’s Kelly Wells took a large lead off third base and waited for the pitch from Sequim’s ace Wyatt Short at 5-5 in the sixth inning.
POULSBO — Nine years ago, Paul and Rhoda Layman lost their son, Zac, 15, to cancer. After the devastating blow from a disease that still has yet to be cured, the Laymans realized they had a decision to make.
POULSBO — It’s been almost two months since the Kitsap Lacrosse team emerged from the state tournament as champions of the B division at Seahawks Stadium. And the squad’s Monday night exhibition with the Royal School of Surrey, England was mainly just for fun and experience.
SUQUAMISH — Thunderstorms and much-needed rain may have drenched the peninsula Saturday, but they didn’t drown the spirits of a dedicated group gathered for an historic celebration that had been 150 years in the making.
POULSBO — It’s not a success, it’s a wake up call.
Or so say entities about the recent failure of Tim Eyman’s Initiative 864 to make the November ballot. Dubbed the “25 percent property tax” initiative, the effort would have cut property taxes, excluding voter-approved levies and property taxes for education, statewide by one-quarter.
POULSBO — Much like tending a field of corn or a row of beets, Poulsbo Farmers’ Market organizers have watched their idea grow and thrive over the last year.
KINGSTON — Heidi Kaster may have a degree in teaching, but her classroom is far from traditional. Instead of instructing youngsters the three Rs, she teaches herself in her own “school” — a 10-acre property on Hansville Road, where she and her husband Dave live and operate Dragonfly Farms Nursery.
HANSVILLE — Twelve years after an application was submitted to Kitsap County for a 205-acre planned unit development in Hansville, dirt may finally be pushed on the land within the next year.
LITTLE BOSTON — While the construction of the longhouse on the Port Gamble Indian Reservation is already impressive in its scope, hand-carved designs on the doors serving as the primary entry are equally magnificent.
POULSBO — While the number of cars, recreational vehicles and boats has been growing on the infamous corner of Stottlemeyer and Bond roads as of late, Kitsap County has been trying to decrease that tally via the legal system.
Whoever coined the fatherly advice that hard work and patience pays off in the long run would certainly be at home in Kingston right now. After more than a decade of debate, discussion and delays, the Little City by the Sea will finally be floating its own passenger-only boat to Seattle.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission approved Aqua Express’ application July 9 and will allow the company to operate a passenger-only ferry service from Kingston to Seattle starting this fall.
POULSBO — One of the last few temporary pieces to the city hall reorganization puzzle may soon be in place.
The form it takes, however, is still up in the air.
POULSBO — Little Norway’s planned sports complex is still a few months away from its ground breaking but new tenants are already set to move in.
Zero Gravity Dance Studio of Poulsbo and Studio Kicks Martial Arts Academy of Bremerton are the second and third companies to announce they’ll be occupying space in the tentatively-named “Kitsap All Sports Complex.”
POULSBO — The North Kitsap School District has offered to lend a hand any way it can to the strapped-for-cash Poulsbo Marine Science Center — every way except financially. Talks between NKSD, the Marine Science Society of the Pacific Northwest and City of Poulsbo — the latter to which the center pays its rent — have ensued over the past week.
POULSBO — It was quite possibly the North Kitsap Junior Babe Ruth’s version of “The shot heard around the world.”
POULSBO — Less than ideal weather but better than expected crowds marked Little Norway’s annual Independence Day celebration Saturday.
POULSBO — The sun shone, the flowers were in bloom and even Peter Rabbit popped his head out of his hole for the occasion.
More than 100 parents and kids trekked to Raab Park last week for the opening day of the Youth Garden Monday activities. The gardening fun will continue from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mondays through Aug. 30.
KINGSTON — Of all the testimony that was given July 1 regarding establishing a foot ferry route from Kingston to Seattle, the overwhelming majority was in favor of allowing the service to start up this fall.