BREMERTON — The International Speedway Corp. announced Thursday it has selected a 950-acre site near the Bremerton National Airport for construction of a new raceway.
While the announcement ended a 20-month waiting game, it raised questions rather than supplied answers.
Independence Day. Unfortunately, somewhere during the past 229 years, it has become less about independence and more about the day — as a “day” off work.
In most cases, Independence Day has lost a good deal of its original intent.
KINGSTON — Harriet Muhrlein didn’t really have a choice when her mother enrolled her in Girl Scouts in 1943. But it didn’t matter because Muhrlein discovered she loved it — so much so, she’s still a Girl Scout today.
North Kitsap’s athletes in soccer, baseball and fastpitch were certainly not strangers to the writers of the Kitsap Newspaper Group.
The final installment of the KNG’s annual All-Kitsap teams, as selected by writers from the Herald, Central Kitsap Reporter and Port Orchard Independent, includes five Viking fastpitch stars: seniors Molly McCluskey, Coreena Stout and Chrystal Camus as well as juniors Melody Griffin and Rachael Kramer.
POULSBO — The Poulsbo City Council and staff got their first look at the long-awaited report on the Marine Science Center and quickly took aim at errors in the report.
Among those errors was an apparent misunderstanding of the purpose of the Poulsbo Public Development Authority (PPDA) and the council’s review of the center’s business plan by consultant James Kolb of the FOR SEA Institute of Marine Science in Indianola.
POULSBO — Soroptimist International of Greater North Kitsap may be small in number, but its members came up big on Wednesday, donating $4,200 to charities around the globe.
“We had a huge arts and crafts show this year at President’s Hall at the Fairgrounds, which made it possible for us to reach out to the community,” commented Club President Louise Lightfoot.
POULSBO — For many teams this year, underestimating the North Kitsap Vikings fastpitch squad was a big mistake.
POULSBO — The sheer number of North Kitsap’s influential leaders in attendance at a forum on the future of the Marine Science Center prompted North Kitsap School District Supt. Gene Medina to exclaim that, “If something happened in this room tonight, this community would be in real trouble.”
POULSBO — North Kitsap High School seniors Meagan Grandall and Ashley Blazina have come a long way together.
The students have attended Vinland Elementary, Poulsbo Junior High School, and North Kitsap High School. They’re not stopping with the culmination of their K-12 education either, fatefully choosing to attend the same college — Seattle University — in the fall.
“We’ve been going to school together since the third grade,” Blazina said.
PORT GAMBLE — In one week, Port Gamble will look like it was taken over by Civil War soldiers and civilians — and that won’t be far from truth.
Members of the Washington Civil War Association will be invading the old mill town June 25-26 with reenactment battles and encampments and playing their parts to the fullest extent — from the weapons in their hands to the hardtack they bring to eat.
Reflecting on my own graduation from high school each June is always an interesting affair. Walking down the aisle as one of 80 or so young men in O’Dea’s class of 1990 really seems like a different life. It was. I was a different person….
SUQUAMISH — West Sound Academy senior Brian Calloway, a self-confessed and impassioned student of the sciences, is headed to Western Washington University to study engineering and technology in the fall.
Which begs the question: what could West Sound, an arts-based private school, have given him to prepare for such an education?
SUQUAMISH — “When you guys are in junior high, there’s gonna be kids who are smoking,” Poulsbo Junior High School student Lindsay Kays explained to a group of very attentive Suquamish Elementary fifth graders. “That’s gross, right?”
“Yeah!” yelled the students.
There are just so many studies and surveys that can be done on transportation issues in a rural area before it’s time to put all that information to use.
That’s what the Kitsap County Public Works aims to do with the $150,000 it was recently awarded from the Puget Sound Regional Council. The money came from PSRC’s $2 million pot earmarked for studies on transportation issues in rural areas. The county also received $50,000 from the Suquamish Tribe to put toward the review.
KINGSTON — Four performances. Two days. Two countries.
One might think the Kingston Junior High School’s parading in Bremerton and Poulsbo May 21 and then tackling two more performances in Victoria, British Columbia the very next day would be a thoroughly exhausting feat.
Evidently, members like the pressure.
POULSBO — With Father’s Day around the corner, the Little Norway Grandmother’s Club has an early treat for Dad or anyone else looking to satisfy their sweet tooth.
And while club president Darlene Munroe wasn’t sure what the exact recipe for the group’s Strawberry Fest success was, it might have something to do with the shortcake.
The phone’s been ringing off the hook for weeks. Pillars of the community, all giving me the same message: Where the heck is our Herald? My Hansville neighbors, friends, acquaintances and sources were a bit miffed at missing their North Kitsap news.
POULSBO — Bill Wentworth has always been amazed by how a simple sheet of metal can be transformed to serve different purposes — as the body of a race car, a piece of equipment vital to the construction of building, or, as he is now exploring, as an art form.
“What really fascinates me is metal sculpture in the fact it’s unique,” he said.
POULSBO — Take the maypole or maistang from Sweden and combine it with bonfires from Norway. Use caution to ensure the pole doesn’t burn down and you have the makings of Poulsbo’s Midsummer Fest.
“Midsummer Fest is going to be the blending of both the Swedish and Norwegian cultures, because both countries have their own celebrations,” Sons of Norway Administrator Mariann Samuelsen said.
POULSBO — The English proverb that, “All good things must come to an end,” best sums up the conclusion the season for the 2005 North Kitsap Vikings baseball team.
Though the Vikings failed to get past the first round of the state playoffs — losing 9-8 to Kentlake May 28 — the team, and more specifically, its senior core, made quite the mark during their time on the diamond.
