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.
POULSBO — While city council candidate Stan Kennedy is pleased with the city’s recent move to plan for its future, he believes it should have been done earlier.
Kennedy, who has a background in engineering and strategic planning, is running against incumbent Ed Stern for Position 6.
POULSBO — For North Kitsap Pee Wees Vice President of Football Dan Snelson, kids and the gridiron are the perfect tandem — put them together and you have a magical concoction.
“I just love kids and I just love football,” Snelson commented. “And when they make that performance happen on game day, that alone is the reward in itself.”
HANSVILLE — Putting on a rummage sale as big as Hansville’s involves much more than just collecting donations and pricing items.
It means 200 volunteers spending 10 months organizing, warehousing, picking up donations, presorting and figuring what to charge for each, all to make a nice chunk of change for the Hansville Community Center Board, which turns around and puts it right back into the community.
SUQUAMISH — After beginning their walk toward the end of nuclear weapons near the Hanford nuclear site on July 15, 17 interfaith peace walkers stopped to pay tribute to Chief Seattle Saturday.
A few weeks ago, when Electronic Data Systems (EDS), announced that it was vacating its longtime location on 8th Avenue, the Herald wondered: is this an option for the new City of Poulsbo Municipal Campus?
We contacted Maxine Levy at EDS only to find that the space available was 15,000 square feet, some 11,700 square feet shy of what the city needed. Or was it?
POULSBO — A breath of renewed enthusiasm is expected to blow into efforts to bring the Marine Science Center back to life as Mudstock 2005 kicks off Friday.
The two-day event is the first scheduled fund-raiser designed to spark increased community efforts to re-open the center, which closed its doors to the public in February due to a lack of support.
KINGSTON — The Port of Kingston Board of Commissioners announced this week that it will not “voluntarily” sell to the state the 3-acre parcel that houses the Kingston/Edmonds ferry terminal.
HOOD CANAL BRIDGE — It’s only been two years since construction began to repair the floating bridge that connects Kitsap and Jefferson counties. While Washington State Department of Transportation officials said they have been trying their best to keep the impacts to drivers to a minimum, construction is, well, construction and with it comes traffic delays and in some cases, closures.
A man stands. The room is filled with the smell or cigarette smoke and bad coffee. He is ringed by a group of North Kitsap residents. All are sitting patiently, waiting for him to speak…
POULSBO — If the proposed 10th Avenue location for the city’s municipal campus goes the way of the Morris property, the project shouldn’t face another two-year delay.
Even though city officials aren’t anticipating any problems with the site, a list of other potential locations has been created if the need should arise.
POULSBO — Loree Bayne may have been born in Pennsylvania, but she fully embraced the spirit of Little Norway becoming known to all as the Queen Viking of the Sons of Norway.
Bayne, who died July 29, will be remembered during a memorial service at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Sons of Norway lodge in downtown Poulsbo.
POULSBO — Even though it wasn’t on the agenda, the selection of the facilitator for the city’s visioning process lit the fuse to a powder keg exchange between council members Wednesday night.
Finance committee members Jeff McGinty and Mike Regis had discussed the issue at length with Public Works Director Jeff Lincoln earlier in the evening, but didn’t bring it to the full council.
POULSBO — One month before city officials announced the selection of the proposed 10th Avenue location for Little Norway’s municipal campus, a local leasing agent made an alternate proposal.
POULSBO — A favorite saying of Daruma, the founder of Zen Buddhism who lived sometime during the 5th or 6th century, was: “To fall seven times, to rise eight times — life starts from now.”
POULSBO — The myriad of positive physical and mental skills one can develop from tae kwon do is expansive, and each person who chooses to become a martial artist has personal reasons for doing so.
For Arissan Ugles, it was the Pink Power Ranger.