POULSBO — “… And finally, here’s the bathroom. Check out the rainbow toilet — it’s pretty cool,” Mason Holmes of Poulsbo pointed out Saturday, completing his room-to-room tour of the aging Nelson Park farmhouse.
SUQUAMISH — Concerns and support for a proposed tidelands swap between the Suquamish Tribe and Washington’s Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) were voiced at a public hearing held Tuesday.
POULSBO — It took the Poulsbo Noon Lions months of planning, preparation and construction to build the picnic shelter at Raab Park in 1978, but when the city discovered extensive rot, the donated shelter came down almost overnight.
INDIANOLA — The sacred space is safe. Generous donors throughout the Northwest have contributed $1.9 million to save Camp Indianola, the place where generations of youngsters have soared over the water on the rope swing and warmed their spirits at the lodge’s massive stone fireplace.
POULSBO — Walkers, runners and bicyclists rejoiced last Wednesday when, after months of procedure and deliberation, the city was finally able to take an enormous step forward and finally approve permits for the Liberty Bay Waterfront Trail.
POULSBO — It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, and it’s sure the heck not Superman, either. It’s a flying dogfish.
POULSBO – Transportation improvements. Economic development. Quality of life issues. These are not the topics you might expect to hear discussed at the monthly meeting of the KREDC Telecommunications Committee––a highly technical group filled with local government officials and communications professionals with local and eye-popping global credentials.
POULSBO — The gold shovels and hard hats will finally be making a debut appearance at Olhava next month — and, following a long wait, Olympic College officials are almost ready to break ground on their branch campus here.
POULSBO — Tucked away in his home within the thick woods, Scott Green doesn’t have a typical work day.
By normal social standards anyway.
POULSBO — The native green belt around the Poulsbo Library is growing and thriving, but not the way developers intended when they revamped the Lincoln Road structure and created a landscape that would make Martha Stewart envious.
INDIANOLA — Midway through the Indianola Field Day, Dave Hord, who helped bring the event together, paused from eating a hamburger and gazed appreciatively at the sky.
SUQUAMISH — One by one, the graduating seniors thanked their classmates, their teachers, and their school.
POULSBO — As the North Kitsap Concert Band approached the climax of “Jupiter, From the Planets” during Saturday’s graduation ceremony, a tremor of laughter jittered through the crowd, and a few parents in the audience craned their necks to see what had caused it.
The graduates, all clad in purple robes and mortarboards, were doing the wave.
HOOD CANAL — It seemed fitting that the Hood Canal Bridge Legislative Tour was held in the basement of St. Paul’s Church in Port Gamble last Friday — everyone involved in the $205 million project to replace the west half of the bridge is taking a leap of faith of sorts.
Residents of Hansville argued persuasively to repair rather than replace the old Point No Point Resort boat launch Tuesday night, in a meeting with representatives from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Kitsap County Parks and Recreation, and Kitsap County Commissioner Chris Endresen.
POULSBO — After enduring an unsightly clear cut, burn pile ash and smoke over the past year, residents of Meadow Run and Glen Haven might have to abide to something else they didn’t plan on when work on a new 29-home development started in their neighborhood last year — lower property values.
POULSBO — “I’d say we could have put it through college by now,” Poulsbo Planning Director Glenn Gross replied Thursday when asked if it felt good to finally put the city’s Urban Growth Area “baby” to bed.
PORT GAMBLE — Shining like a gigantic C3-PO on steroids, he emerged and entered the ring of combat.
Beginning in August, curbside recycling customers in unincorporated Kitsap can toss mixed paper, cardboard and most plastics into their recycling bins.
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Thousands may miss the “rockets’ red glare” this year if fundraising for Kingston’s Fourth of July Fireworks fails.
