POULSBO — After dodging the Medicaid cut bullet earlier this year, officials, residents, employees, supporters and families at Martha and Mary Lutheran Services received some sobering news last Friday — they’ll have to do it again next year.
Although fall elections are six months away, the pairings are already falling into place as Kitsap County’s incumbent legislators have all announced plans to seek re-election and each has drawn one major-party opponent.
POULSBO — New challenges have meant new success for the North Kitsap girls’ tennis team.
POULSBO — Reeling from four months of abnormally high usage, Fishline Food Bank is hoping to reel in large donations next Saturday during its 10th Annual Letter and Rural Carriers Drive.
POULSBO — William Shakespeare’s comedy “Love’s Labor’s Lost” is coming to Gordon Elementary.
POULSBO — Poulsbo’s favorite “annexation tool” may be lost for good but that’s not going to stop its construction efforts in surrounding areas, city officials confirmed Wednesday.
POULSBO — North did its part.
The Vikings’ fastpitch team needed a win to stay in the postseason chase, and it got what it needed Wednesday afternoon, using a fast, efficient attack to sink the Olympic Trojans 3-0.
Kingston celebrates spring with the opening of its annual Farmers Market today. It’s a great place to see your neighbors and buy fresh items.
TACOMA — For Melissa Korb, the gaudiest of seasons began in the most unpretentious of places: a cold, cement-floor shed off Sherman Hill Road that would make Martha Stewart grimace and Leo Durocher smile.
The only permanent occupants now are a pitching machine, batting cage, and softball championship banner, but it was in this 30 by 36-foot shed — built by Melissa’s father, Randy — that an outstanding season and an outstanding pitcher were developed.
With the return of warm weather, the kids, teens and dogs are all back in North Kitsap parks. The bad news is that the dogs aren’t on their leashes, even though signs clearly tell owners to leash their four-legged friends.
POULSBO — If the Poulsbo City Council had to select one street project, one road proposal that has gotten the snuff more times than any other in past decade the group would likely point out Hostmark Street to Caldart Avenue.
Over the years, the neglected road has seen big plans come and go — but never stay. Despite the “someday” history of the highly used roadway, Caldart may finally be getting some richly deserved attention. The wheels of progress seem to be turning in favor of the one street in Poulsbo that virtually everyone agrees is a potential danger to the children of this community.
POULSBO — Christmas comes but twice a year.
This is what a jubilant Francis and Rosie Nacinovich discovered last weekend at their Sawdust Hill home. On Saturday, the couple learned that the season of giving isn’t limited to December.
It took two years of persistence on her part, but State Senator Betti Sheldon succeeded in her quest to have the Legislature pass a bill that will greatly benefit victims of domestic violence in our state.
Thanks to the bill sponsored by Sheldon, a domestic violence victim who left her (or his) job to be safe can collect unemployment benefits.
POULSBO — Poulsbo Planning Director Glenn Gross took the old “good news, bad news” adage to new heights Wednesday night when he dropped a bomb on the Public Works Committee with a few short sentences.
On the positive side, Gross pointed out that the city was “closer than ever to getting its Urban Growth Area.”
POULSBO — If only the game had ended when the clock did.
As the North Kitsap-South Kitsap soccer game entered its final two minutes Tuesday night, the scoreboard clock, which is configured for football, froze at two minutes.
KINGSTON — At 20, David Robert Boxley has learned traditional wood carving from his father, David Boxley.
Slowly but surely the younger Boxley is making a name for himself in the art world.
Seventy-five years after his grandfather paved the way for aviation advances, his grandson is hoping to do the same in finding new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and breakthroughs in space travel.
On May 1 Erik Lindbergh, grandson of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh, will recreate the historic flight made in 1927.
POULSBO — Rachel Walters shattered the North Kitsap girls’ record for pole vault Wednesday afternoon, topping the bar at 8’6” while the previous record had been 7’6”.
“If anyone stood out, it’s that young lady,” said co-head coach Tim Adams. “She was great.”
POULSBO — Students at North Kitsap High School could read snippets of Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes or Maya Angelou while passing from class to class last week, and all they had to do was look down.
As a project, students scrawled poetry on the sidewalks and stairs outside the school. Some of the poetry was that of the most famous poets in the country; other lines were the students’ own.
TACOMA — A U.S. District judge in Tacoma has dismissed a case against the Suquamish Tribe.
