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.
KINGSTON — When locals discuss the window clerk at the Kingston Post Office, everyone knows who they are talking about.
But after next Wednesday, Bob Sellin won’t be there to greet customers, take their mail, stamp it and ask about life these days.
POULSBO — When Kellie Morgan came to Poulsbo to coach a scrappy U-14 team called the North Kitsap Phoenix, she knew that each of the squad’s players had a long way to go.
“They were very inexperienced with soccer, period,” she said. “They were raw talent.”
POULSBO — The wait for new benches in downtown is finally over as the first batch arrived this week after a seemingly endless series of delays that left many wondering if they’d ever make it.
POULSBO — As the final short platting of the Olhava development continues to move at a snail’s pace, potential clients remain interested in joining retail giants The Home Depot and Wal-Mart in 2006.
Wal-Mart is expected to open before the end of the year, while The Home Depot has set Jan. 26, 2006 as its scheduled opening date.
Kitsap County’s voting populace will have a chance to tighten the reins on crime next month but not without dipping into their own pockets first. While the Law and Justice Levy (Proposition 1) suggests a 0.15 percent sales tax — 15 cents on $100 purchase — to replace lost state funding, meet new demands and fill gaps in the system, getting the public to OK this could prove quite a battle.
KINGSTON — The owners of a home-based Internet adult entertainment business on West Kingston Road have been charged by the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s office with a misdemeanor for violating Kitsap County Code.
KINGSTON — After working with North Kitsap Fire & Rescue last year during discussions on potential consolidation with two Jefferson County fire agencies, Port Ludlow Fire Chief Wayne Kier liked what he saw in the North Kitsap staff.
POULSBO — The Greater Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce has made its list and checked it twice as it prepares for its second annual auto auction Tuesday evening at the Clearwater Casino.
The group has gathered 27 vehicles, ranging from a near mint-condition lime green and creme 1972 Dodge Dart to a 1999 Buick Century, the newest in the lot, and are expected to sell for prices ranging from $200 to $2,500.
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