Notices & Press Releases

opens in a new windowPress Release: Kitsap County Law Enforcement – A Letter to Our Community
May 28, 2020 – Kitsap County Approved to Move to Phase 2 of the Governor’s Safe Start Plan
Kitsap County Department of Emergency Management has created a opens in a new windowKitsap County Pathway to Recovery Playbook which provides guidance for individuals and employers.
City of Poulsbo Official Newspaper: Notice for Bids and Bid Packet
Press Release: Johnson Parkway-SR305 Roundabout Construction to Start this Summer
Press Release – Poulsbo Cares Initiative
With more residents staying at home and an unusually warm Spring thus far please remember, for residential accounts, “seasonal averaging” of the sewer portion of your utility bill does not commence until your June billing cycle; your June bill consist of water usage beginning mid-May. Please keep in mind all usage prior to this will not be averaged and your sewer will be billed under the winter rate structure. For water saving tips visit the City website at www.cityofpoulsbo.com/public-works and select “Tips for Saving Water” under the Water section of the Quick Links.
opens in a new windowMay 2020 Newsletter – COVID-19 Update
As businesses and buildings start to reopen the City of Poulsbo would like to remind people to take some precautions when it comes to the Health and Safety of their workers.Please read the opens in a new windowDepartment of Health Guidance Documents. This guidance is for recreation facilities: https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Pubs/333-247.pdf
Gateway Fellowship in Poulsbo is opening its doors, on Monday, to the homeless and hungry in the North Kitsap area. Day shelter and community kitchen will be open 7 days a week from 11am to 3pm. Call the City’s volunteer HELP line for more information 360-517-5037. Meals served at 11:30 a.m. daily.
Revised Press Release: Poulsbo City Hall Closing Public Counters to the Public Effective March 23, 2020
Temporary Closure to Poulsbo Library. This will affect our ability to post meeting notices, please see the Bulletin Boards at City Hall or the Poulsbo Post Office and/or our website for meeting notices.
Archived Press Releases
opens in a new windowParks and Recreation Spring/Summer 2020 Activity Guide
opens in a new window2040 Draft Regional Transportation Plan
opens in a new windowCity Council Meetings and Other Streamed Events

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Stay & Play Around Poulsbo

It’s not just a day trip anymore. Escape the crowds, discover why people want to live here. Plan your shopping trip and discover many places to eat with this opens in a new windowwalking map of downtown Poulsbo. Once you’re finished shopping, venture out and enjoy the many outdoor activities Poulsbo has to offer. For a fun illustrated map of Poulsbo and the surrounding areas, please click opens in a new windowHERE.

Velkommen til Poulsbo…Welcome!

Poulsbo’s leaders are progressive and forward looking, and are conscientiously working to balance the needs of a growing 21st century city while maintaining the Scandinavian heritage that has earned Poulsbo the nickname “Little Norway”.

To enhance Poulsbo’s connections with Norway in late 1990, Poulsbo adopted proclamations naming Namsos, Norway and Kautokeino, Finmark County, Norway as our official sister cities. Also in 1985 recognizing the Ballard area of Seattle, WA shared a common Scandinavian and Norwegian heritage with Poulsbo, we commanded together in brotherhood to proclaim Ballard as a sister city.

Poulsbo, Washington, with a population of 11,180, is located in the northern part of Kitsap County and is 4.5 square miles in area. Liberty Bay, originally called Dog Fish Bay, and the majestic, snow-peaked Olympic Mountains to the west induced the Scandinavians to settle in Poulsbo because the area was so similar to the fjords of Norway.

Prior to Euro-American settlement, Poulsbo was in the heartland of the Suquamish People, who have lived in Puget Sound for thousands of years. Suquamish ancestors occupied villages and camps on the Liberty Bay shoreline over the past 5,000 years, hunted throughout the Poulsbo forests and floodplains, fished in bays and streams, and collected shellfish along the marine shoreline.

With the Scandinavians’ arrivals, Poulsbo was founded by Jorgen Eliason, from Fordefjord, Norway, when the primary method of travel was water. Supplies were brought the eighteen-mile trip from Seattle by rowboat and later by steamboat. Over a sixty-year period, the “mosquito fleet”, comprised of more than a dozen steamboats, served Poulsbo and other locations along Liberty Bay and Puget Sound carrying passengers and freight to and from Poulsbo and delivering farmers’ produce to Pike Place Market in Seattle.

Today Poulsbo is a thriving community with many amenities that attract tourists and encourage people to move to this area. With its picturesque downtown core of rosemaled storefronts and shopping areas at Poulsbo Village, along Viking Avenue, and in College Market Place, Poulsbo offers much to citizens and guests alike. These include several beautiful parks throughout the city, a boardwalk along Liberty Bay, the Valborg Oyen Public Library, three marinas, interesting gift shops, delicious bakeries, good schools including the Olympic College satellite campus, and panoramic views of Liberty Bay and the Olympic Mountains.

For more information on Norwegian culture and heritage please visit: opens in a new windowwww.thornews.com

opens in a new windowVelkommen til Poulsbo and North Kitsap County (1975) Book