POULSBO — Even though the primary election results have yet to be certified, Councilwoman Kathryn Quade appears to have reached some historic milestones as she seeks to become Little Norway’s 18th mayor.
Voter turnout in the election was at 53 percent as of Sept. 24 with 2,349 out of 4,452 eligible voters casting ballots in the primary.
POULSBO — The Sons of Norway Vikings may have to step aside for a night at least as their lodge takes on a more Germanic feel Friday.
Beer and bratwursts will be the featured fare of the evening as the Poulsbo Historical Society raises money to support its efforts to keep history alive in Little Norway.
“This is one of our bigger events of the year and we’re really looking forward it,” explained Poulsbo Historical Society President Kathy Hogan.
POULSBO — Moving one seat to the right on the Viking bench Monday night made junior varsity coach Jessica Harney experience a whole new realm of the game.
Harney sat in, for her first time, as North Kitsap head coach, as Tim French was called away just prior to game time on a family emergency.
POULSBO — If the adage, “It takes a village to raise a child,” is true, then Poulsbo resident Renee Arcement is doing all she can to ensure this village is well-prepared to do so.
Arcement, the public education coordinator for the Youth Suicide Prevention Program in Washington and a North Kitsap School District parent, has been planning a forum since April called “Know More” to help parents deal with teen and children’s issues.
A little boy named Aidan stood in the corner of the playground, watching others play basketball on a small Fisher Price hoop.
Awestruck each time the small rubber ball swished through the basket, you could see in his big, round eyes how badly he, too, wanted to try it himself. But Aidan, who has autism, had never played basketball before.
POULSBO — After two years of starts, stops and pauses, the pieces of the Martinson cabin have finally come together, literally.
Countless hours of hard work by a group of volunteers apparently paid its dividends as Bight of Poulsbo Founder Bill Austin made an important announcement to the city council’s community services committee recently.
KINGSTON — You can measure the size of the famous RE/MAX hot air balloon in different ways.
It can be measured by cubic feet, as it is 77,000 cubic feet. Or by basketballs, as 77,000 basketballs could fit inside it.
Compared to buildings, it’s 60-feet tall, 50-feet wide and three stories tall when fully inflated.
KINGSTON — It was a place to meet friends on a weekly, and for some, a daily basis. The menu, filled with meals named after regular patrons, offered decent food at a fair price. Community groups and breakfast clubs took advantage of the tables in the early morning for weekly gatherings.
POULSBO— An armada began invading the waters of Liberty Bay Friday, but instead of Viking longboats, classic yachts from across the Northwest took their leave on the shores of Little Norway.
Hurricane Katrina efforts continue in the North End as youngsters and business owners work together to help those in need in New Orleans:
POULSBO — Councilwoman Kathryn Quade outdistanced Mayor Donna Jean Bruce and Councilman Mike Regis in Tuesday’s primary to put herself at the front of the mayor’s race heading into November.
Quade garnered 961 votes, while Bruce got 566 to beat out Regis, who finished with 517 as of Friday morning.
POULSBO — An injury-laden yet resilient Viking soccer team fell prey to the early Narrows Bridge favorites, the Gig Harbor Tides, Thursday night — but only by a single tally.
One header by the Tides’ Allie Branham off a corner kick from Elizabeth Betterbed was all Gig Harbor needed to win the team’s third game of the year and remain atop the Bridge Division.
POULSBO — North Kitsap School Board candidate Tom Anderson was pleasantly taken aback by the unofficial school board primary results that saw him earn twice the votes of his competitors.
Anderson, a former Naval officer and NK and Bainbridge retired school teacher, secured 4,718 votes — about 53 percent of the total tally. That mark put him well in the lead as he pursues school board District 1 position.
I wasn’t a regular at the Kingston Inn. Living on Bainbridge Island and in Poulsbo, Indianola and now Hansville since moving here seven or so years ago, it was always a bit out of the way to travel for breakfast.
KINGSTON — The smell of burnt wood from Tuesday night’s fire at the Kingston Inn could be detected as far away as the intersection of West Kingston and South Kingston roads Wednesday morning.
All that remained of the nearly 5,000-square foot building that had been engulfed in flames the night before were the kitchen walls and the basic framework of the building.
POULSBO — In an unannounced change to the city council’s Wednesday agenda, Mayor Donna Jean Bruce moved her comments before the council’s and took issue with recent discussions about possible alternative municipal campus sites.
Kitsap County voters soundly defeated a .15 percent sales tax earmarked to provide funds to support crimefighting efforts, and Superior Court Judge Sally Olsen was elected to a full term, besting Port Orchard attorney Jonathan Morrison in the only other countywide race.
Of the voters who cast ballots, a notable 65.7 percent opposed the tax proposal and 34.3 were in favor of the measure.
When North Kitsap voters mark their ballots in the general election this November, it won’t be the last time they’ll be asked to weigh in on an issue before the next one in November 2006 rolls around.
The North Kitsap School District’s maintenance and operations levy, passed by area voters in 2002, is nearing the end of its four-year life span, and the district is anticipating maintaining the same levy levels for the next four.
Gas prices are pushing $3 a gallon. If you’re lucky, you can find unleaded for the low, low price of $2.78. (We rounded up the Americanized 9/10 of a cent that corporations use on everything from pairs of socks to cars. Sure, a car that costs $19,999 is less than one that costs $20,000 but not by much.) But we digress.
INDIANOLA — The work taking place on the White Horse golf course and housing project is only the first phase of the 450-acre development, which, overall, has been in the works for more than a decade.
But in order to make it to the second phase, the developer has a few more key hurdles to jump.
