The document is the March 9th edition of the North Kitsap Herald newspaper. It discusses the selection process for a new superintendent of the North Kitsap School District, with community members having met the three finalists. It also summarizes the violent events that occurred in February in Kitsap County, including two shootings and a murder, with a community gathering held to pray for the "removal of fear."

1. HERALD
NORTH K ITSAP Bucs win 3rd!
Coverage, pages A6-7.
Congratulations, pages A12-13.
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IN THE Who will be superintendent?
HERALD “We need some place to be
where we’re not alone. We need
each other.” — Dave Webster, Poulsbo
Coming to grips
David Gray Robert Patrice Page
Kuehl
Decision due
KITSAP WEEK
John Denver
tribute coming
to Bremerton
with a violent month March 19
— In this edition
Gathering By KIPP ROBERTSON
krobertson@northkitsapherald.com
prays for POULSBO — As a former full-time teacher
at Wolfle Elementary School, Beth Schneidler
‘removal has specific qualities she is looking for in
the next leader of the North Kitsap School
District.
REMODELING
At Sentinel, it’s not just a job, it’s a partnership.
PAGES 3-4
HOME & GARDEN SHOWS
Get ideas from gardening guru Ciscoe Morris
and more than 200 exhibitors.
PAGE 5
of fear’ She wants someone who can collaborate, is
approachable, a good listener, and has a back-
ground in the classroom setting.
TOUR OF ARCHITECTS
By MEGAN
See what’s hot in Bainbridge and Port Orchard.
PAGES 6, 9
GARDENING
This week, Schneidler and the North Kitsap
Miss Snippy’s Compendium of Practical Plants.
STEPHENSON
PAGES 7-8
RESOURCES
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community were able to meet the three final-
PAGES 9-10
North Kitsap Herald
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CALENDAR
Upcoming classes, club meetings and plant sales.
PAGES 10-11
ists for the superintendent position. David
NEXT WEEK OULSBO — Gray, Robert Kuehl and Patrice Page all made
You’ve got February 2012 a visit to NKSD.
will likely be “I think the process that brought it down
a date with remembered as a to these candidates must have been good,”
Ciscoe Morris time when Kitsap
See FINALISTS, Page A14
and Miss Snippy grieved, when we
tried to make sense
Residents ask
of it all, to under- Right, Helen Heins, a member of Kitsap Quilters, was among the 50 or so resi-
stand why any of dents who turned out for a special service at Poulsbo First Lutheran Church
PRO AND it happened, to Tuesday. Megan Stephenson / Herald
CON: BOCKUS
APPOINTMENT
understand if any of
it could have been change in medica- police later, he has himself in and was two Poulsbo port
officials to resign
prevented. tion may have led to been out of work, charged with first-
■ Us: Resign
On Feb. 8, Joseph his uncharacteristic his rent is past due degree murder.
■ Them: Move on Michael Henninger behavior. and he needed the On Feb. 22,
— Pages A4-5 of Poulsbo was On Feb. 17, money. 8-year-old Amina
Adam T. Hewins On Feb. 21, Kocer-Bowman was By MEGAN STEPHENSON
shot and killed by mstephenson@northkitsapherald.com
local police after of Kingston alleg- Darwin Dunker of shot and critically
he allegedly fired a edly tried to rob the Poulsbo was shot injured by a hand- POULSBO — Disgruntled port residents
Timberland Bank and killed in his gun that discharged have called for commissioners Tony DeCarlo
gun inside the Les and Arnold Bockus’s resignation over DeCarlo
Schwab Tire Center branch on Viking apartment by his in a 9-year-old class- and port attorney Greg Norbut’s handling of
on Viking Avenue. Avenue because, friend. Casey Cutlip mate’s backpack at Bockus’ appointment to a commission vacan-
His family said a he reportedly told of Poulsbo turned See GATHERING, A2 cy.
Other port residents, meanwhile, have called
for the issue to be dropped. They express their
▼ ▼ ▼ support for Bockus in a guest column on page
A5 of this edition of the Herald.
FREE APP DeCarlo conceded at the port’s regular
Scan this code Gregoire speaks at Need help talking Timeline of meeting on March 1 that legislation is “war-
to receive local Poulsbo service for about it? Resources tragedies: Page A11 ranted” to clarify whether a sitting commis-
sioner can be appointed to another vacancy
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