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Suquamish’s economic boom ‘breathtaking’ Stern: Clearwater expansion puts report ‘on par’ with Bremerton for convention space, rooms
By RICHARD WALKER
rwalker@northkitsapherald.com
SUQUAMISH — Life was different on the Port Madison Indian Reservation when the grandparents were children.
The grandparents’ grandparents could remember the U.S. government burning Old Man House, the largest winter longhouse on the Salish Sea. They saw parcels of ancestral land go to newcomers, some by
choice, some because they had no choice. Jobs were scarce here. Even agricultural work that the U.S. government tried to force the grandparents and great-grandparents into lost its economic via-
By RICHARD D. OXLEY
roxley@northkitsapherald.com
See WRIGHT, Page A8
NEW COUNCIL MEMBER Meet your newest representative in city government. — page A2 ■
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See SUQUAMISH, Page A6
Silting blamed for fish deaths
Deputy chief quits, inquiry continues POULSBO — Deputy Chief Bob Wright has resigned from the Poulsbo Police Department. His resignation comes as his alleged conduct during a dispute with his estranged wife, a l s o a law enforcem e n t of ficer, is being Bob Wright investigated. Wright’s resignation letter does not mention the investigation into his
bility in the evolving 20th century economy. The young ones were sent away to boarding schools — some to nearby Tulalip where there were
State investigating tie to city work By KIPP ROBERTSON and RICHARD D. OXLEY North Kitsap Herald
A Coast Guard helicopter searches Hood Canal, just south of Seabeck, for a downed plane, Jan. 26.
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Witness describes plane crash in canal ‘I heard a plane ... Then I didn’t hear anything’ By CHRIS TUCKER
Central Kitsap Reporter
SEABECK — The small red-andwhite airplane that crashed south of Seabeck Jan. 26 in Hood Canal
was spinning, may have had parts break off in flight, and sank quickly, according to a man who said he witnessed the plane fall. Jon Marker, who lives on Thunder Ridge Way, said the plane spun downward at a sharp angle near Frenchman’s Cove (near Guillemot Cove). He was in his home when he heard the plane
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around 12:45 p.m. “I was eating lunch, getting ready for work. I heard a plane like it was climbing. It was the motor of a plane. Then I didn’t hear anything for a couple seconds,” Marker said. “Then I looked out and I saw a plane kind of whirling around,” nearly straight down, he said. See CRASH, Page A8
POULSBO — Two biologists believe city work last fall may have caused the death of fish in Poulsbo Creek. The state Department of Fish & Wildlife is investigating. “I don’t know what they were doing,” state biologist Gina Piazza said. “The result sent a lot of siltation and turbidity into the creek.” See FISH, Page A13
PRESERVE EXPANDS ■ Forterra, Pope Resources sign agreement for 200 acres along Grover Creek. — NorthKitsapHerald.com
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