POULSBO — With renovation on the community pool fast approaching, the North Kitsap School District has scheduled a meeting to address the concerns of Poulsbo Junior High parents.
The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 7 in music room two.
KINGSTON — The KIngston Citizens Advisory Committee started 2002 the same way they ended 2001 — quietly.
Although no official action was taken, discussions about the community center took a different turn Wednesday as members voiced concerns about too much of a good thing.
POULSBO — The North Kitsap School District has received a $200,000 Even Start grant that administrators think will be a boon for 30 local families.
The money, which is composed of federal funds, will be partially matched by the district, raising the total value of the grant to $325,000.
Poulsbo’s year in review.
A look back at 2001.
A look back at the events of 2001 in the North End.
Little Norway takes big steps forward as it strides to 2003.
SUQUAMISH — DuWayne Bender submitted a plea of guilty to the aggravated first degree murder charge Dec. 21. He will spend the rest of his life in jail with no opportunity for parole for slaying Barbara Sneed of Suquamish in late-July.
Kitsap County Prosecutor Russ Hauge said he would not seek the death penalty in this case.
SUQUAMISH — For the past three months, youth from the Suquamish Tribe have journeyed through cultural waters to build a vessel that will carry them on the actual ones.
The Full Circle Canoe Carving Project, tribe members hope, will also carry on the Suquamish’s carving tradition to the next generation.
Wow!
Right up until our doors closed for Christmas vacation, the generous people of North Kitsap continued to come in with a donation to the North Kitsap Bellringer Fund.
POULSBO — “Everyone will have a Merry Christmas,” was the happy report from Fishline executive director Tricia Sullivan last Friday.
And, thanks to a tremendous outpouring of support from the community, everyone did.
KINGSTON — If all goes according to plan the site on Minder Road in the dead center of North Kitsap will soon become the center of the youth community.
The North Kitsap Youth Educational Service Teen Center is taking the next step on a long road to construction.
Thanks to the generosity of countless individuals, families, organizations and local businesses, more than 200 North Kitsap families will sit down to holiday dinners, their children will have the joy of new toys and their Christmases will be merrier.
The North Kitsap Bellringer Fund has surpassed its ambitious goal of $25,000. Checks and donations are continuing to arrive, even more will be listed in our Dec. 26 issue.
POULSBO — While growing up in Southern Louisiana, Angie Perrin’s Christmases meant presents, Santa Claus, and gumbo simmering on the stove.
Now that she is a Vista/Americorps Rolling Readers representative at Poulsbo Elementary, Perrin has been sharing that Cajun Christmas heritage with students, courtesy of one of her favorite children’s books.
POULSBO — It’s been on the city’s “to do list” for far too long, but when Poulsbo finally decided to get improvements on Front Street rolling it quickly ran into another problem — money.
POULSBO — “It got the knife,” Richard Best of the Lemolo Citizens Club said this week of the group’s appeal to the Final Supplemental Environmental Statement for the Central Kitsap County Wastewater Facilities Plan.
But for Best and the rest of the LCC, getting the knife apparently is a long way from “getting the boot.”
The Christmas miracle so many have always believed in is happening before our very eyes.
The goal of $25,000 for the North Kitsap Bellringer fund that seemed nearly impossible just a few weeks ago is now in sight. With less than a week until Christmas, we have already received more than $21,000.
KINGSTON — The looks of Pine Cone Gifts are somewhat deceiving.
The well laid out shop appears to have been an integral part of the Kingston Kountry Korners shopping center since it first opened along Highway 104.
Instead, Paula Erickson’s small business “fell off the tree” less than 20 days ago and has already grown dramatically.
HANSVILLE — LeAnna Whisperinghorse’s hands broadly stroke Wyeth’s golden coat. They then pinpoint muscles looking for anything that might indicate a problem.
Whisperinghorse has combined her career as a conventional massage therapist with her love for horses. She has practiced human massage and holistic healing for the past 13 years. Her relationship with horses began about 16 years ago.
POULSBO — Maybe both teams got what they needed Friday night.
The North Kitsap boys’ basketball team charged into its game with South Kitsap and claimed a win over the unbeaten Wolves, loudly warning the rest of the Narrows League that the Vikings — who won 15 in a row last season — are a team to be reckoned with.
