The People, Places & Happenings of Poulsbo, Washington
Word reached us this week that the orcas were back in Liberty Bay. Those who were near the water say they worked close to the docks we all call the nursery, where the harbor seals bring their pups this time of year, and that at least one seal did not come out of it.
Read onTuesday evening found the lawn at Muriel Iverson Williams Waterfront Park nearly full, and for good reason: there were two gatherings happening at once.
Read onThe last of the Summer Nights concerts falls on Tuesday, August 11, and this year the evening does not end when the music does. At about nine o'clock, a few hundred drones will lift off the waterfront boardwalk and fly a short show over Liberty Bay. They belong to the Peninsula School District's student drone team, which is based down in Gig Harbor, owns more than three hundred drones, and travels to put on shows for other towns.
Read onKitsap Regional Library's summer learning program, titled Bound for the Stars this year, wraps up at the end of August. Readers up to age eighteen can still stop by the Poulsbo branch to claim free books through the Book Boost program, and anyone who finishes their summer reading goal by August 31 earns a shirt or pin and a spot in the end-of-summer prize drawing. To every young reader closing in on a goal: the whole town is rooting for you.
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A Salutatory
Poulsbo, meet the Liberty Bay Ledger. This is a paper about one small, well-loved place, and it exists for a simple reason: we wanted hometown news back, instead of corporate news and manufactured outrage. We would rather tell you who is behind the counter at the shop you like, what the fog was doing on the bay this morning, and which neighbor quietly mowed someone else's lawn while they were laid up.
Papers like this used to be ordinary, and most of them are gone now. A paper like this can only be written with the whole town's help, so consider this an invitation.
From the old newspapers
Raspberry Pickers
Free bus service on Route A and B. For schedule see ad week of June 15th. Route 1, Box 292 Poulsbo. Phone Poulsbo. PRospect 9-4589, evenings.
Poulsbo News Briefs
POULSBO, Aug. 6. The “big push” in Poulsbo's quest for a recreation center will start rolling over the Labor day holiday when the community will gather for a gala three-day celebration, proceeds to go toward financing the project. High points will be a carnival, water sports and street dancing. On display will be an inboard motorboat and an Austin car.
Poulsbo Port Expansion Gets Boost
Poulsbo's plans to enlarge its harbor and expand its dock facilities without an expensive dredging operation got a boost this week from Bert Cole, state land commissioner. It may be possible to extend the Poulsbo port 1,000 feet into Liberty bay over tidelands owned by the state, Cole said.
Neighbor to Neighbor
An introduction, and an invitation
This space is for the part of the paper we care about most: sitting down with the people of Poulsbo, one at a time, and putting their stories somewhere permanent.
Read More and Nominate SomeoneThe Perseid meteor shower peaks on the night of August 12 into the morning of the 13th, and this year it arrives with a new moon. That means dark skies and the best viewing conditions in years. Find somewhere away from the streetlights, give your eyes twenty minutes, and look northeast.
The brambles along the trails and road edges have begun their August turn from red to glossy black, which means the annual negotiation between pickers and thorns is open again. Wear long sleeves, and accept the scratches you will get anyway.
The sun now sets well before nine, a half hour earlier than it did at midsummer. Worth taking the long way home while the light lasts.
This month we asked: “What place in Poulsbo feels most like home to you?”
The first letters are still on their way, and one of them could be yours. Send us a few lines and help write the town down.
Read all letters →Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday, August 8, 5 to 8 p.m.
Tuesday, August 11, 6 to 8 p.m., drones at about 9
So that is your new paper, or the beginning of it. Still to come are photographs of the town then and now, and a running account of the kindnesses that usually go unrecorded. The next edition will arrive when it has enough of Poulsbo in it to be worth your time, and with your help that will be soon. Until then, the evenings are still long, the berries are ripe, and the sky is putting on a show on the twelfth.
Know a neighbor with a story worth telling? Spot something around town worth noting? The Ledger is written with the whole town’s help.