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Friday, November 13, 2015 | Vol. 114, No. 46 | NorthKitsapHerald.com | 50¢
Police chief reprimanded
1 dead in crash on Sawdust Hill
Was alone with officer in dark office at 3 a.m.
STAFF REPORT
POULSBO — A vehicle passenger was killed in a collision with a Waste Management truck on Sawdust Hill Road near Pimlico Place Nov. 10. The driver was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center’s trauma unit. The driver of the refuse truck, a 62-year-old Poulsbo man, was uninjured, Poulsbo Fire spokeswoman Jody Matson reported. The driver of the car was identified only as a 29-yearold man from Poulsbo. He was extricated and taken by ambulance to Raab Park
EDITORIAL 2015 has been a deadly year on Kitsap roads. You can turn the tide. — page A4
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RESIGNATION Poulsbo city clerk resigns, cites job stress. — Page A6
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By RICHARD WALKER
The encounter, which occurred during the gravePOULSBO — Poulsbo yard shift the night of the Police Chief Al Townsend Poulsbo BlockParty (forsaid the female officer merly the Poulsbo Street Dance), earned wanted to show Townsend a verhim her “cool finbal reprimand gernails,” which from Mayor she had painted Becky Erickson; with glow-in-theany future similar dark polish. She incident would then gave him a warrant a written hug to thank him reprimand and for trying to help being placed on her with a shift administrative change, he said. leave, the mayor It was about Police Chief said. 3 a.m. and his Al Townsend The Herald is office lights not naming the were off when a reserve officer walked officer because she was in. In retrospect, “I could not reprimanded. The encounter occurred have handled it better,” Townsend said Nov. 6.
rwalker@northkitsapherald.com
Emergency personnel from five agencies responded to the scene of a fatal collision on Sawdust Hill Road Nov. 10. Sophie Bonomi / Herald in Poulsbo, then airlifted in serious condition. A Harborview nursing supervisor said he was in stable condition Nov. 11. The passenger was killed instantly, Matson reported.
The two had been working at a nearby construction site. The road was closed for three hours while the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office investigated at the scene.
Crews from Poulsbo Fire Department, North Kitsap Fire & Rescue, Poulsbo Police, Washington State Patrol, and Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office responded See FATAL CRASH, Page A3
See REPRIMAND, Page A6
Piece of school history unearthed in Raab Park By SOPHIE BONOMI
sbonomi@northkitsapherald.com
POULSBO — Fragments from Poulsbo’s past, buried for decades and
Phil Campbell and Eric Nieland admire the 85-year-old capstones from Poulsbo’s first high school, June 10. Sophie Bonomi / Herald
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long forgotten in Raab Park, have been discovered. They are the capstones from the original North Kitsap Union High School, the gateway to the future for Poulsbo students from 1930 to 1986. Students are now restoring the capstones, and replicating missing pieces, for display on campus. First, some history:
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Talk of the need for a high school began in 1916. By 1929, the nearly 40-year-old Poulsbo Grade School — serving grades K-12 — was neither large nor safe enough to handle the expanding student body, and a new building was a necessity. “Despite the fact that the country was See HISTORY, Page A7
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