North Kitsap High School teacher Peggy Dunbar and Poulsbo Elementary School teacher Barbara Pixton and have been chosen as the Rangvald Kvelstad Teachers of the Year. The two were selected by the Rangvald Kvelstad Teacher of the Year Award Foundation based on nominations from the community. Each receives $500.
In a good year, the city of Poulsbo will approve an average of 60 to 100 residential building permits by the year’s end. About halfway through 2015, the city has already approved 63 single-family residential building permits.
A purchase offer has been made for the former police station on Hostmark Street, and Mayor Becky Erickson said the prospective buyers may build apartments at the site.
Summer school in the North Kitsap School District starts at the end of June, and there’s a lot more to look forward to than in the past.
Erickson: ‘At the end of the day, they can take 10 minutes, pick up, clean up, tidy up, make sure the trash is taken out. That’s just being neighborly.’
Seventeen students graduated West Sound Academy in the class of 2015.
The class was given the idea by parent volunteer Richele Strong to upcycle bottle caps and turn them into a mural for the school’s annual auction.
Kingston High School seniors Nick Woltersdorf and Conner Erickson have spent the last year producing a feature-length, coming-of-age movie called “More Than a Feeling,” following teenagers in the final days of their final high school summer break.
Nearly 60 school districts in Washington have staged, or will stage, walkouts. Protests started April 22 with the Lakewood, Stanwood-Camano and Arlington school districts, after legislators considered an 11-percent raise for themselves.
The presentations were designed to inform students, parents and community members about cyber safety and the risks of social media. There were talks given at the middle schools in the districts, as well as evening programs designed for adults.
“Weather Guru” Cliff Mass will visit Hansville in early June to help educate people on climate change and the peculiarities of Pacific Northwest weather.
Hundreds of people flocked to Front Street in Poulsbo for the 46th annual Viking Fest Parade, May 16.
Poulsbo Mayor Becky Erickson and other public officials — including a prosecutor and a judge — have applied for a county grant to hire a behavioral health specialist to help people with mental health issues get the help they need.
A ceremony to celebrate the hard work, dedication and charitable donations made by many throughout Kingston for a new community center drew a large crowd May 3.
Thirty-two choir students went to the Washington Music Educators Association’s state solo and ensemble competition at the end of April.
North Kitsap School District offers a language learner program for students who wish to learn Spanish as a second language.
The English Language Learner program is helping more than 200 students in the North Kitsap School District to become proficient in English not just conversationally, but academically, as well.
Employees get a chance to visit France and learn traditional craft of crepe making.
Before Earth Day, Kingston Christian Church had seven trees at the front of its property. Now there aren’t any, the result of a project the church undertook for safety reasons.
The Kingston Coaster Games — formerly Hansville Coaster Games — which will take place at the Kingston Fourth of July Celebration.
