POULSBO — Police say a North Kitsap High School student “had the capacity” to carry out a shooting threat. Two schools were locked down after a man allegedly threatened to kill his wife, a school employee. The North Kitsap School District is involved in a new cooperative designed to enhance school safety and emergency response.

Those are the top stories in the Oct. 31 North Kitsap Herald, available now at newsstands and in stores.

The Oct. 31 Herald is 40 pages in two sections, in addition to USA Weekend magazine and lots of additional savings in our local and regional advertising circulars.

This edition includes three pages devoted to Women In Business. The Kitsap Week cover story is about the EDGE Improv, which is still making people laugh after 20 years.

Inside the Herald, you’ll find local news, Opinion, Letters to the Editor, Sports & Outdoors, Public Meetings, Health & Wellness Directory, North Kitsap Calendar, Worship Directory, At Your Service, Kith & Kin, Newsmakers, Births, Obituaries, Legal Notices, Kitsap Week Life and Culture, Around Kitsap, Kitsap Calendar, Kitsap Week Sudoku, Kitsap Nightlife, Kitsap Week Crossword, Holiday Happenings, The Book End, Kitsap Classifieds, Weekend Open Houses, and Kitsap Imbibe.

The Herald has been the Voice of North Kitsap since 1901 and has a circulation of 12,500. Kitsap Week is included in five Sound Publishing newspapers in Kitsap County and has a circulation of 65,000. For convenient home delivery of the Herald, call 360-779-4464 or email circulation@soundpublishing.com.

You can read the Herald page by page online at www.northkitsapherald.com/green_editions. Get regular news updates on NorthKitsapHerald.com and on Facebook.

Regionwide news is available at your fingertips:

— BainbridgeReview.com
— BremertonPatriot.com
— CentralKitsapReporter.com
— KingstonCommunityNews.com
— NorthKitsapHerald.com
— PortOrchardIndependent.com
— KitsapVeteransLife.com