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LIFE AND CULTURE
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Plan your week and weekend. — Kitsap Calendar, pages 4-7
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Lots of savings in Kitsap’s largest Classified section. — pages 15-22
‘Spacecraft’ brings other-worldly summer concert lineup to Bainbridge’s Rolling Bay Hall Story, photos on pages 2-3
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Possible buyer for police station site Apartments proposed; former city hall project moving ahead By MICHELLE BEAHM
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POULSBO — A purchase offer has been made for the former police station on Hostmark Street, and Mayor Becky Erickson said the prospective buyers may build apartments at the site. The property, located at 367 NW Hostmark St. in downtown Poulsbo, currently contains a 3,800-square-foot building with parking. The
The former Poulsbo police station site has a buyer. The vacant site is currently used for public parking. Apartments are proposed.
ALBERTSONS CLOSING ■ Regional manager says all employees will get jobs in other stores. — page A12
original sale price was $1.05 million but, with no buyer forthcoming, the city dropped the price first to $950,000 and then to $900,000. “The commercial economy is coming back right now,” Erickson said of why it’s been hard to sell the building before now. “It’s a small (building), the footprint is a rather small
Herald file photo / 2014
See DOWNTOWN, Page A5
From small-town hobby to big-time business As Kitsap County’s peanut king and the namesake of CB’s Nuts, Clark Bowen’s life revolves around nuts. And what started out as a hobby for him is now a stable business venture that can boast about sales of morethan-100 tons of in-shell peanuts and 173 tons of peanut butter annually. See story, page A10. Leslie Kelly / Sound Publishing.
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KINGSTON — From all accounts, Jim Norberg is a man of faith. And it’s faith that’s keeping him from being resentful or full of self-pity, even as he enters his fourth month of recovery from a head-on collision in which his youngest daughter was injured and the other driver, deemed to be responsible for the crash, died. He’s not resentful, even as he labors in rehabilitation in Seattle to recover from head injuries, two shattered ankles, a shattered femur, a lacerated liver and several other broken bones. Even See NORBERG, Page A5
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