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Jun 10 2008, 4:25 PM POULSBO The time has arrived.
Though the State Route 305 expansion project is not quite complete, the new lane additions will open the evening of Jan. 25, allowing a little more breathing room for a thoroughfare that has been congested with construction since August 2006.
Sandwich boards: A menace to society?Jun 10 2008, 4:25 PM POULSBO On any given day, there are about two dozen of them along Front Street in Poulsbos downtown core. For a two-block stretch of sidewalk, thats no small number. Photovoice encourages children to get visual
Jun 10 2008, 4:25 PM SUQUAMISH The curriculum is being organized, cameras prepped and the food is purchased. Now all thats needed for the Suquamish Photovoice project to begin is students ready to show the world what they think of their community. At a meeting Jan. 16, Photovoice organizers encouraged all students between the ages of 10 and 18 who have a strong connection to Suquamish to apply for the visual program.
Photovoice is a grassroots program that offers cameras to segments in the society who are often voiceless. Organizers of the Suquamish Photovoice project want children to illustrate to local community leaders and government officials what they think about their neighborhoods in the hopes the childrens work will enact change to benefit Suquamish and its citizens.
Photovoice was started by Caroline Wang at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 1992 for women in China to do just that. It has blossomed into a full-fledged, international project. The Suquamish Citizens Advisory Council heard about it last year from South Park in Seattle and decided to further the chain of discussion and discovery in the North End.
A sign of things to comeJun 10 2008, 4:24 PM At the Suquamish Tribes early learning center, the past is always within reach. On the (Poulsbo) waterfront
Jun 10 2008, 4:24 PM POULSBO The Port of Poulsbo is putting out a last call for community input regarding a 15.8-acre harbor line expansion. The fourth and final installment of the port community meeting series will allow residents to express their own ideas and concerns about a project that could greatly reshape a major Little Norway connection to Liberty Bay. 911 Briefs
Jun 10 2008, 4:24 PM Woman dies at scene of car accident
POULSBO A 34-year-old Port Orchard woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a two car accident at 5:37 p.m. Jan. 21 on Clear Creek Road near Finn Hill Road, according to the Poulsbo Fire Department (PFD).
The woman had been driving her Mazda Protege when it was struck by a Volkswagon Passat headed northbound on Clear Creek Road, driven by a 32-year-old Poulsbo resident. He was taken to Harrison Medical Center for treatment, PFD officials said.
OPG preparing to strap on hiking bootsJun 10 2008, 4:24 PM KINGSTON Olympic Property Group (OPG) put together a think tank of sorts last Thursday afternoon, encompassing experts of all kinds to get to work on an all-expansive trail vision, the String of Pearls, OPG presented last summer.
The system, which would make use of the Rural Wooded pilot program launching in Kitsap County, would essentially have miles of trails spread out over the 8,000 acres the company owns in North Kitsap. Not to be left out, roughly 65 representatives from all of the North Kitsap communities including Bainbridge Island and many individuals from outdoor groups attended to help with the next phase of the project. Each community has been given the nickname Pearl and OPG is hoping to thread the neighborhood together in a proverbial sparkling necklace for Puget Sound.
Will county commission be an all-boys club?Jun 10 2008, 4:24 PM The announcement by South Kitsap Commissioner Jan Angel that she will leave the board to run for a seat in the state Legislature ensures in a years time the county commissioners will look quite different than it did just one year ago. Finding space for Poulsbo Place
Jun 10 2008, 4:24 PM POULSBO Temperatures rose in the Poulsbo Fire Station meeting hall Thursday night during a Poulsbo Place II neighborhood gathering, where more than 60 residents opined some fiery views on a new development planned by Central Highlands Builders (CHB). In the face of what, at times, was fairly heavy fire, representatives from the development firm did their best to extinguish the crowds fears and provide answers to their doubts. We're gonna need a bigger boat
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