POULSBO — Her experience with accounting pre-dates the advent of the home computer, but Paulette Alvarado has definitely changed with the times. After 25 years with the City of Poulsbo, though, Alvarado decided earlier this month that there would not be a twenty-sixth. Instead, the accounting manager has decided to take the advice of Washington State Treasurer Michael Murphy and seek Sharon Shrader’s soon-to-be-vacated position as Kitsap County Treasurer.
Our seniors must have quality health care. We can afford Medicre and Medicaid. It is just a matter of getting our priorities straight.
Two groups in the North End are celebrating Earth Day today — the Miller Bay Citizens Action Group and Stillwaters Environmental Center.
EcoFest will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Stillwaters, 26059 Barber Cutoff Road.
Is it time to celebrate the progress on Poulsbo’s branch campus of Olympic College? You may want to hold off on that toast.
POULSBO — The question was as sudden as a swing, as unexpected as a hole-in-one.
Brian Bignold, coach of the girls’ golf team at North Kitsap High School, was at an early season-practice when one of the girls made the green in five strokes.
SILVERDALE — Once again, several great individual performances by members of the NKHS track team were overshadowed by another team’s depth.
The strong Central Kitsap Cougars, one of the top two teams in the league, beat the North Kitsap girls 104-40, and the boys 95-47.
DRIFTWOOD KEY — Maia Skeisvold, 68, of Hansville was killed and her husband critically injured when their car hit a power pole Thursday morning.
The couple was Airlifted to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center with head injuries where Maia died later that afternoon. Austin, 75, is listed in critical condition.
POULSBO — Poulsbo’s Olympic College branch campus has been skating on thin ice for the past several years. But, it seems that every time a proposal is about to fall through, supporters manage to avert disaster, execute an impossible leap and land the campus project safely on its feet.
POULSBO — More than 1,500 students in the North Kitsap School District will begin taking the Washington Assessment of Student Learning next week.
The test, which students will have to pass to graduate beginning with the class of 2008, is taken by grades 4, 7, and 10.
POULSBO — When Gail Zinc first announced her plans to become general manager of North Kitsap’s newest senior assisted living and memory care community, people began to look to Poulsbo.
Her former employees, co-workers and even residents she has served during her 20-year stint in the industry wanted to continue their positive, personal relationship with the likeable lady. So, when she decided to work at Montclair Park and Haven Crest on Lincoln Road — almost everyone else came with her.
POULSBO — The North Kitsap baseball team has won back-to-back games, topping Olympic Friday 11-7, then defeating Central Kitsap on Monday 9-5.
Peder Rauen won the first game for North Kitsap, aided by relief outings by Danny Purser and Chris Carlsen.
POULSBO — Even City Engineer John Stephenson had to chuckle.
“This is very exciting. Get on with it,” the citizen comment about the Liberty Bay Waterfront Trail read. But it wasn’t the tone that made the engineer smile.
POULSBO — For the North Kitsap fastpitch team, runs against Central Kitsap have been as rare as ice cream trucks in December.
In the last two years, the Vikings have scored exactly zero runs against the Cougars.
KINGSTON — This spring the Old Kingston Hotel will become home to new artists and ideas.
The Appletree Cove landmark, if all goes according to plan, will be transformed into a place where creativity, community and service combine.
POULSBO — Dressed as a floured and somewhat frazzled baker, Alex Duchemin represented the finest Viking Fest has to offer. She later traded her chef’s hat for a crown.
The sanctuary of Christ Memorial Church in Poulsbo erupted with cheers as Duchemin’s name was announced as the 2002 Miss Viking Fest.
While the economic health of other Puget Sound counties deteriorated and the state slipped into a recession last winter, Kitsap County remained strong, according to state Department of Revenue statistics released last week.
“Other Puget Sound counties, such as King County, boomed bigger over the last decade, and now they are busting bigger,” said County Commissioner Chris Endresen. “Kitsap County is steadier in terms of employment and income.”
After more than 30 Earth Days, the world, particularly our small part of it, still needs changing.
You can change the world in small, but important ways.
Class gets a first-hand look at a how a business works.
POULSBO — Twelve visiting Mexican students will leave North Kitsap this weekend, but evidence of their visit will remain at Breidablik Elementary for years.
The Mexican students, part of an exchange program with Spectrum Community School, helped the Breidablik students kick-start a project that has been waiting a long while to begin: an organic garden in a patch of land behind the school.
Poulsbo-based Fred Hill Materials announced innovative plans to build a four-mile conveyor belt that would haul gravel and sand from its Shine quarry to a marine pier on Hood Canal, where it would be shipped out.
The proposed pier would be located about five miles south of the Hood Canal Bridge, and about 2 miles west of the Lofall ferry dock on the western shore of Hood Canal. The nearest Kitsap point would be the Edgewater Estates.
