POULSBO — It came down to the final three minutes of play but when Sheena Brundage fouled out, North Kitsap High School girls basketball coach Dan Weedin knew the squad was in trouble.
Brundage — the team’s tallest player at 5’10” — had spent much of the night fending off Olympic High School’s bigger players. With her out of the line up, the Trojans took charge of the paint and controlled the remainder of the game.
It wasn’t a controversial proposal to implement district-only balloting that killed the proposed new Kitsap County charter, former freeholders and members of the pro-charter Committee for Better Representation said Tuesday night.
It wasn’t a plank to create a new county executive, either, or a provision for nonpartisan elections.
POULSBO — “I’m not going to sit on my laurels,” former Port of Poulsbo manager Barbara Waltz said Thursday, two weeks after being terminated from her position via a unanimous commissioner vote.
Calling the decision “wrongful,” Waltz addressed claims leveled against her at meetings on Jan. 17 and Jan. 24 with a point-by-point grievance statement this week. The former manager noted that while she was following port procedure by responding to the commissioners’ charges, the elected trio did not follow their own policy concerning employee infractions.
POULSBO — A remark from the North Kitsap School District superintendent sparked an idea that has become a generous donation to the people of Afghanistan.
Several weeks ago, when Supt. Gene Medina was at a meeting at Poulsbo Junior High, he briefly remarked that everyone at the meeting would be going home to blue skies and a meal, while the children of Afghanistan were starving — and dying.
And that remark got JoAnne Bodner thinking.
POULSBO — Fate hasn’t been kind to the North Kitsap boys’ basketball team this season.
Luckily for the Vikings, it’s been just as hard on the their Narrows League rivals.
KINGSTON — When the going gets tough, the tough go to Whidbey Island.
A group of about 20 Kitsap County and Kingston representatives headed for Freeland Friday morning on a foot ferry fact-finding mission.
SUQUAMISH — One North Kitsap school is making this Valentine’s Day a little sweeter for troops in Afghanistan.
The students at Suquamish Elementary prepared Valentines for the soldiers, cutting out paper hearts, adding glitter, and writing personal notes.
LEMOLO — It’s already taken two huge punches on the nose, but whether Richard Best’s appeal of the adequacy of environmental statements concerning a plan to increase trans-Liberty Bay raw sewage flows from Poulsbo to Brownsville will stay down for the count has yet to be determined.
For the second time in as many months, Best and members of the Lemolo Citizens Club received disheartening news from Kitsap County Hearings Examiner Stephen Causseaux, Jr. Their appeal of the Kitsap County’s Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for the central Wastewater Facilities Plan has been denied again
Early returns:No: 54.91 percent, Yes: 45.09
KINGSTON — The community center will be the center of attention tonight at the Kingston Citizen’s Advisory Committee meeting.
POULSBO — Months after becoming the third-best 14-year-old team in the country, the North Kitsap Babe Ruth team received one more honor.
The team made its way to Olympia Friday and was honored by State Sen. Betti Sheldon, who read a resolution honoring the team on the Senate floor.
The Kitsap County Commissioners have approved a new animal control ordinance. There’s a reason it took a year and a half to craft–pets are a subject that can set voters to howling.
POULSBO — For the record, Poulsbo Junior High opened the junior-high portion of the Viking Jazz Festival with a swinging tune entitled, appropriately enough, “Front Burner.”
And Kingston Junior High ended the first day with with “Down Home Cookin’,” a tune director Jeff Haag calls a “jazz rock funk number.”
Kitsap Music Teachers Association presents pianist Wayne Johnson, who will play “Salon Classics.”
POULSBO — Claiming that manager Barbara Waltz had committed malfeasance and misappropriations, Port of Poulsbo Commissioners last Thursday night voted unanimously to terminate her from the payroll. The decision followed weeks of speculation about the manager’s future with the port and comes on the heels of a week of administrative leave.
KINGSTON — The possible transfer of ownership of 390 acres between the state and the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe is unconstitutional and should be stopped claims a newly-formed North Kitsap Concerned Citizens group.
The group filed suit against the Department of Natural Resources in Kitsap County Superior Court last week alleging the transfer would violate the Washington State Constitution.
Charter backers and opponents won’t predict an outcome of Tuesday’s vote on the government reform, but activists on both sides think it’ll be close.
Kitsap County Auditor’s Office officials, however, made one prediction: Only about half of the county’s voters will return the ballots that were mailed on Jan. 16.
The Legislature needs to overturn the archaic supermajority requirement.
Nicholas Stroeder was returned to a state juvenile rehabilitation facility on Jan. 31 after authorities learned he had earlier violated his parole.
A small group of area Chamber of Commerce members grilled Rep. Beverly Woods, R-Poulsbo, and Rep. Pat Lantz, D-Gig Harbor, during a Monday video-conference between Olympia and Bremerton.
Woods and Lantz both know the current legislature will be judged on how they tackle state transportation issues.
