“The Suquamish have a rich cultural and maritime history in the Salish Sea with their ancestral heartland encompassing the north end of Hood Canal and the Olympic Peninsula to Indian Island, the Kitsap Peninsula, and both sides of Admiralty Inlet to the Tacoma Narrows in the south,” Commission Chairman Anne Haley said in an announcement of the naming.
After a 26-day hiring process, the Greater Poulsbo Chamber of Commerce announced the appointment of E. Daniel Barry as its director of operations on March 16. Barry will oversee all elements of board governance, external marketing, strategic event planning, and staff management.
The North Kitsap Fire & Rescue Board of Commissioners will have a public hearing at 7:15 p.m. March 28 on transferring the department’s interests and liabilities in the assets of CenCom to Kitsap County for the reorganization and re-establishment of CenCom as a separate legal entity.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Porter, who drove his car home while intoxicated in October, faced demotion to deputy, suspension without pay for 30 working days, and suspension from his duties as a SWAT team tactical supervisor.
Poulsbo Police Chief Alan Townsend resigned March 14, writing in a statement released by the mayor’s office that “I have become a distraction to the city and more specifically the police department.”
Imagine living in a place where the shops, parks, medical offices, work, restaurants and schools are all within easy walking distance — a multigenerational neighborhood that offers a range of living choices and costs, a place with trees, walking trails and bike paths, and a park.
There was a time, at the beginning of the 20th century, when most Americans lived in villages or village-like neighborhoods within a city. Residents could walk to work, their children walked to a nearby school, and most of life’s needs — the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker, if you will — were also within easy walking distance.
The Port of Poulsbo will ask voters to expand the district’s boundaries to the city limits, as well as Poulsbo’s Urban Growth Area. The port commission voted March 3 to place the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot. Port Manager Brad Miller said Lemolo and Scandia — two areas that overwhelmingly opposed an annexation measure in 2014 — will not be included in the proposed port district.
After 175 years, the ancestor is returning home. The National Museum of Natural History plans to repatriate to the Suquamish Tribe the remains of a person removed in 1841 from his or her burial site in what is now Port Orchard.
Brownsville Highway about one mile south of the Keyport turnoff remained closed at 9:30 a.m. March 11
Edward Charles Gerstenberger August 30, 1921 – March 11, 2016 Edward Charles Gerstenberger of Poulsbo passed away peacefully on March…
The Kitsap Public Health District issued no-contact advisories for several bays March 10 because of sewer and stormwater overflows in Poulsbo and Lemolo, and a combined sewer overflow in Bremerton.
A teacher shortage is slamming school districts in Washington and, as the Legislature reaches the end of its regular session, lawmakers are still looking for ways to relieve the strain.
After a rough night, life began to return to normal Thursday afternoon
June Valentine George February 14, 1934 – March 10, 2016 June Valentine George, 82, passed away on Thursday, March 10,…
Case Levenson, Jonathan Evison, and the relationship that became the basis for a book and film, “The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving.”
POULSBO — Sonia Vrooman Lien Kahanamoku, who found her birth family while in her 70s and chronicled her journey toward…
John Belgarde February 5, 1933 – March 8, 2016 John Belgarde died March 8, 2016 with his wife Nancy and…
Although facing some stiff competition, the Poulsbo Piranhas delivered a strong performance in their first day, taking home 16 first-place ribbons.
An adult male suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center after his motorcycle apparently crashed on Hansville Road near its intersection with Old Hansville Road March 6.
