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The Armed Viking Pin-Up Festival | An Amalgamation of Celebrations

Musing on the thought of Armed Viking Pin-Up girls taking over the county this weekend. It gets a…

Claire Hosterman (as Franca) and Kimbre Lancaster (her mother) in the piazza at BPA

Life

Elsewhere in the Art World | ‘Light in the Piazza’

BPA presents the inaugural off-broadway premiere of "Light in the Piazza" while Port Orchard gets its own art…

Life

In hard times, new members flock to the Kingston Art Gallery

Some came ironically, some came directly, some came rather serendipitously. In spite of, or perhaps because of, the…

Obituaries

Clifford Hestdalen

Clifford Melvin Hestdalen, formerly of Poulsbo, died May 15. He was 83. Hestdalen was born June 19, 1926,…

The Rural Wooded Incentive Program aims to provide land owners with incentives to keep open space and preserve public access to open space while providing for greater density.

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Commissioners concerned county can’t support development under RWIP

KITSAP COUNTY — Questions. No decisions, no solutions, no alternatives, but lots of very in-depth questions. That’s where the…

Home Depot employees Tammy Haaby and David Hensel have put life on wheels during the Hood Canal Bridge closure. The Port Townsend couple are living in an RV in Kingston.

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Commuters become campers during Hood Canal Bridge closure

Tammy Haaby’s life is now on wheels. “It’s difficult, but it’s working out,” she says, standing beside a…

News

Kingston foot ferries by 2010?

KINGSTON — As funding trickles in, Kingston’s passenger ferry could be transporting commuters to Seattle as soon as spring…

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The more things change, the more the ferry stays the same

KINGSTON — It wasn’t until 1923 that east-bound ferry service first came to Kingston, and it was nothing…

Rob and Angela Scott are the owners of new Sogno di Vino

Business

Sogno di Vino: ‘Taste, enjoy, return’

POULSBO — The dark walls of the wine cellar are a dulcet hue, like the deep, rich warmth…

News

Viking Fest : 41 and full of fun

POULSBO — May’s glowing sun and cloudless skies would be an unfamiliar sight in North Kitsap without an…

Sports

North Kitsap’s Erickson bound for San Diego

North Kitsap basketball player Kyle Erickson signs with the University of San Diego.

News

School district hires Leavell, reduces administration

The North Kitsap School District is reducing administration and teaching staff, but creating two new director positions.

Sports

Sports updates: NK baseball headed to state

Sports updates for May 13, 2009.

Life

A walk on the wild side — of flowers

The Great Peninsula Conservancy continues its outdoor excursions this weekend with a wildflower walk through Guillemot Cove, May…

From left: Marshall Trotland

Life

Tumbledown set to release debut full-length May 19

arlier this year, Tumbledown — MxPx frontman Mike Herrera’s pop-punk-abilly side project — traveled down to Austin, Texas,…

Bill Mickelson/Staff photo A group of divers headed off for training in Hood Canal... without me.

Life

An insatiable hunger for shrimp and scuba | Beyond Kitsap

Continuing the journey along Highway 101, Beyond Kitsap, seeking fresh Hood Canal shrimp and an impromptu scuba trip.…

Life

Reflections on meeting the Dalai Lama | At the Lynwood

At the edge of the millennium, The Dalai Lama of Tibet invited 40 of the West’s leading, most…

The partners behind the Kingston Firehouse — (from left) James Wetter

Life

Old Kingston Firehouse becomes town’s first movie-plex

Kingston celebrated its first movie theater Thursday night with a sold-out black-tie soiree, replete with bright lights and…

News

Bozeman named Port of Bremerton CEO

The Port of Bremerton named Bremerton Mayor Cary Bozeman as its new chief exectutive officer on Tuesday morning.…

Life

Jewel Box Theatre offers ticket special

Wanting to do its part in this slow economy, the Jewel Box Theatre, Poulsbo, is offering a special…