POULSBO — With two huge street renovation projects looming on the horizon like a mushroom cloud, the city public works committee Wednesday night decided to postpone proposed Lincoln Rd. safety work and continue to review impacts of another unexpected bomb that came in the form of the Iverson Way extension.
The North Kitsap School District board of directors approved spending $2.8 million toward the remodeling of the community swimming pool at Thursday night’s meeting.
The pool, plagued in recent years by moisture and mold problems in the building’s shell, will undergo a significant remodeling—with even more improvements to be made than the district first anticipated, thanks to a favorable bid climate and an improvement in state matching funds.
LITTLE BOSTON — The new carpet smell still dominated the air. The lights glowed. The game screens blinked. The neon was paled only in comparison to the beaming faces of casino and tribe officials.
Welcome to “a new era” in gaming in the North End.
Competition is nothing new for Jenne Jones.
She’s been competing in gymnastic meets for the Trek Gymnastics Club team for nearly three years.
POULSBO — The information superhighway will precede actual infrastructure.
This seemed to be the concept Wednesday night when the public works committee unanimously agreed to hire Leslie Demich of Olympia as the primary public information source for two huge projects that will snare Poulsbo’s Front Street traffic for the majority of the spring and summer.
Beginning next week, Central Sound ferry users will get a chance to sound off on proposed fare increases at a series of workshops.
The increases, proposed by the Tariff Policy Committee, average 12.5 percent. But the increases are not uniform. Some uses will see greater hikes, while daily commuters will see the possibility of an actual price decline.
POULSBO — Question. If an office worker goes to work five days a week and receives 12 faxes before noon, 14 more before 5 p.m. how many pieces of paper will he or she accumulate after three months?
Answer. It really depends on how many are kept and how many are thrown away.
POULSBO — Red velvet, Mary Janes, tiaras, satin gowns and a bond that is like no other — that’s what daddy/daughter dances are made of.
More than 300 dads and their dates gathered at the North Kitsap High School gymnasium for the ninth annual Daddy/ Daughter Dance Saturday.
POULSBO — The checks were in the mail, really.
But somewhere on the way from point A to point B there was an unscheduled drop off at point C. Confused?
The recent embarrassing financial disclosures by tax-initiative king Tim Eyman appear not to have diminished the chances he will get the public vote he demanded on a statewide transportation plan.
“There is no less of an appetite for a public vote on a state transportation revenue package,” Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch, said just days after Eyman admitted to paying himself to work on his Permanent Offense initiative campaigns.
It wasn’t the loss that hurt so much, it was the way they lost.
“It was extremely disappointing, extremely frustrating for all involved,” North Kitsap boys basketball coach Bob Fronk said the day after the Vikings’ 77-62 season-ending loss against Bremerton at Olympic High on Monday.
How much more alert and prepared can we be?
Maybe the message isn’t about being fearful, but about remembering what and who is really important.
POULSBO — It came down to the final three minutes of play but when Sheena Brundage fouled out, North Kitsap High School girls basketball coach Dan Weedin knew the squad was in trouble.
Brundage — the team’s tallest player at 5’10” — had spent much of the night fending off Olympic High School’s bigger players. With her out of the line up, the Trojans took charge of the paint and controlled the remainder of the game.
It wasn’t a controversial proposal to implement district-only balloting that killed the proposed new Kitsap County charter, former freeholders and members of the pro-charter Committee for Better Representation said Tuesday night.
It wasn’t a plank to create a new county executive, either, or a provision for nonpartisan elections.
POULSBO — “I’m not going to sit on my laurels,” former Port of Poulsbo manager Barbara Waltz said Thursday, two weeks after being terminated from her position via a unanimous commissioner vote.
Calling the decision “wrongful,” Waltz addressed claims leveled against her at meetings on Jan. 17 and Jan. 24 with a point-by-point grievance statement this week. The former manager noted that while she was following port procedure by responding to the commissioners’ charges, the elected trio did not follow their own policy concerning employee infractions.
POULSBO — A remark from the North Kitsap School District superintendent sparked an idea that has become a generous donation to the people of Afghanistan.
Several weeks ago, when Supt. Gene Medina was at a meeting at Poulsbo Junior High, he briefly remarked that everyone at the meeting would be going home to blue skies and a meal, while the children of Afghanistan were starving — and dying.
And that remark got JoAnne Bodner thinking.
POULSBO — Fate hasn’t been kind to the North Kitsap boys’ basketball team this season.
Luckily for the Vikings, it’s been just as hard on the their Narrows League rivals.
KINGSTON — When the going gets tough, the tough go to Whidbey Island.
A group of about 20 Kitsap County and Kingston representatives headed for Freeland Friday morning on a foot ferry fact-finding mission.
SUQUAMISH — One North Kitsap school is making this Valentine’s Day a little sweeter for troops in Afghanistan.
The students at Suquamish Elementary prepared Valentines for the soldiers, cutting out paper hearts, adding glitter, and writing personal notes.
LEMOLO — It’s already taken two huge punches on the nose, but whether Richard Best’s appeal of the adequacy of environmental statements concerning a plan to increase trans-Liberty Bay raw sewage flows from Poulsbo to Brownsville will stay down for the count has yet to be determined.
For the second time in as many months, Best and members of the Lemolo Citizens Club received disheartening news from Kitsap County Hearings Examiner Stephen Causseaux, Jr. Their appeal of the Kitsap County’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for the central Wastewater Facilities Plan has been denied again
