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North Kitsap High School Band Color Guard at the annual Viking Fest parade, May 18.
For the 45th year, lovers of Scandinavian culture celebrated Viking Fest, founded to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day.
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updated 5:14 AM May 21, 2013
Washington Attorney General and Secretary of State warn against scams
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UPDATED: One Bremerton man died and another Bremerton man was injured and arrested for vehicular homicide, following a one-car collision near the 12500 block of Central Valley Road NW in the early hours of May 17.
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updated 4:51 PM
May 20, 2013
Investigators are fairly certain that the May 7 house fire was accidental and not suspicious in nature, according to North Kitsap Fire & Rescue spokeswoman Michele Laboda.
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Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation Monday that helps reduce taxpayer burden by strengthening the state’s Derelict Vessel Removal Program.
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3:10 PM
May 20, 2013
A Bainbridge Island man faces several charges after a chance encounter with a Kitsap County Sheriff’s deputy landed him in jail.
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45th annual Viking Fest, presented by Safeway, at Muriel Iverson Williams Waterfront Park, Anderson Parkway, and King Olav Parking Lot in downtown Poulsbo
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updated 8:19 AM
May 18, 2013

Kim Nesselquist, Norway’s consul in Washington and Idaho, is grand marshal of the 2013 Viking Fest Parade.
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updated 8:19 AM
May 18, 2013

Two groups were crucial to the founding of Poulsbo — the Norwegian settlers who immigrated, and the ancestral people of the Suquamish Tribe, according to Viking Fest organizer Ron Krell.
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updated 8:19 AM
May 18, 2013

It’s easy to consider backing out from trying the white fish when there is nothing between someone preparing to eat it but a plastic fork and free will. But I’m not one to back away from trying a new food easily. So I dug in.
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updated 8:19 AM
May 18, 2013

It’s not just the entertainment from the B.R.A.T.S. that North Kitsap Senior Center President Norman Bates will remember about the program’s annual visit.
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updated 8:18 AM
May 18, 2013