KINGSTON — Drivers headed east on State Route 104 Friday morning got a bit of a surprise as they approached the hill before downtown Kingston.
A large, wooden, post-and-beam home was slowly making its way west on SR 104, headed for its new destination — the Stillwaters Environmental Education Center.
SUQUAMISH — Framing a picture or piece of art doesn’t just involve putting a piece of glass on top of the work and finishing it off with a fancy molding — if it’s done right, the frame becomes a part of the art itself.
POULSBO — Most homeowners know how be a good neighbor to the folks next door.
But the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is also looking for landowners willing to practice similar concern for the wildlife that surrounds their property.
POULSBO — Port of Poulsbo Commissioners had little to say and even less objection to their proposed 2005 budget.
Perhaps because the document proposes a leaner operating port and smaller increases for their customers.
GIG HARBOR — The battle for Narrows’ Bridge Division supremacy may have been won Friday night.
And it didn’t end the way North’s Vikings (1-2) would have liked.
Kitsap County and Hansville residents are looking to convert some 500 acres, including waterfront property, into green space. If the Herald was a real estate agency, it’d be fuming. Probably making arguments like, “That’s land that’s being taken off the tax rolls” — i.e. that’s land we can’t sell to clients.
KINGSTON — While county agencies and local environmental groups often test Kitsap streams for fecal coliform and other pollutants, there is another way to check the health of local waters — studying the biological life that exists within.
KINGSTON — Hometown electrician and Republican County Commissioner candidate Scott Henden will advance to the Nov. 2 general election after taking 3,936 votes, or 69 percent, in the Sept. 14 primary.
POULSBO — Forecasts for weekend showers have put a halt to plans that would have added the final touch to the Caldart Avenue reconstruction project.
BREIDABLIK — It’s a journey that will take the Breidablik sixth grade class around Puget Sound — literally.
The eldest Bears at the elementary school will be undertaking an adventure later this school year that will see them canoe their way around Kitsap Peninsula, starting in Port Gamble for a total of about 165 miles.
HANSVILLE — It was just seven months ago that Kitsap County officials approached the Hansville community with the idea to join forces in an effort to purchase 500 acres of available land for parks and open space.
KINGSTON — Kingston High School planning principal Bruce Saari will be the first to admit that “small” does not necessarily equal success.
Saari, who has founded three small learning communities in the Seattle and Marysville areas, has made the small schools philosophy — a new approach to public school teaching — his passion as an educator.
Republican Frank Mahaffay will represent his party in the general election for Washington’s 23rd District Representative Seat, Pos. 1, garnering a strong majority of votes in Tuesday’s primary election.
POULSBO — Megan Hyte, Megan Hyte, Megan Hyte.
If you’re seeing triple, then you can relate well to what the Port Angles Roughriders girls’ soccer team felt Tuesday night at NK Stadium.
Michael’s Cafe owner Michael Trevors and Mor MOR Bistro owner John Nesby.
“We thought we’d get some culinary tastes in there,” commented Market Manager Jackie Aitchison of the judges.
POULSBO — Two local races were whittled down to the final two candidates in primary action around Kitsap County Sept….
POULSBO — Slowly but surely, a well-known Front Street personality’s recovery is underway.
But whether or not it happens in time for him to return to his old stomping grounds still remains to be seen.
TACOMA — It didn’t take long for the North Kitsap Vikings’ football team to get over its opening game loss to Bainbridge.
The gridders rolled to a 35-20 win over the Wilson Rams (0-2) Friday night, maintaining their high-scoring offense but halving the points they allowed on defense in its second game of the season.
TACOMA — North Kitsap Cross Country coach Lee Hodin knew he had a young squad heading into the first meet of the season at Capital Saturday.
But he had no idea how many of his runners would finish at the top of their respective grades. And at a meet with more than 25 schools racing, that can count for a lot, he said. TACOMA — North Kitsap Cross Country coach Lee Hodin knew he had a young squad heading into the first meet of the season at Capital Saturday.
But he had no idea how many of his runners would finish at the top of their respective grades. And at a meet with more than 25 schools racing, that can count for a lot, he said.
SUQUAMISH — While the Suquamish Tribe’s Salmon Recovery Coordinator and fisheries biologist Paul Dorn calls himself a “cog in the gears” in the efforts to protect salmon habitats in Kitsap County, others believe his own work merits public recognition.
