Friends of the Library will host a benefit book sale at the Bainbridge Public Library from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13.
After being chopped down, a fir tree leaning over Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church has been recycled as benches, a sign and most recently, a cross.
The big beak is coming to Bainbridge. This Saturday, from noon to 9 p.m., Blitz, the Seahawks mascot, will join the droves at Battle Point Park for SummerFest 2016.
A quilt by Bainbridge-based fabric artist Donna Lee Dowdney will be featured in a North Olympic Library collective exhibition honoring the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service at the Port Angeles Main Library.
Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.
Erin Blackford of Bainbridge Island has been named to the 2016 winter semester dean’s list for the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University-Provo, Utah.
Mary Hiszem Anderson was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1939, the same year “Gone with the Wind” and “The Wizard of Oz” came out in vibrant Technicolor.
Marine Corps Corporal Micah Jameson Burnett, 21, beloved son, brother and husband passed unexpectedly Thursday, July 14, 2016 at his home in Oceanside, California.
The Yama site was never heavily occupied before the Japanese came, and it has not been developed over since then, making it one of -—if not the — best preserved Japanese immigrant village sites in the Pacific Northwest, according to E. Floyd Aranyosi of Olympic College’s Department of Anthropology and the director of the summertime Yama Project field school.
Andrea Mitchell of Bainbridge Island has earned academic honors at Lafayette College.
What’s taller: a stack of books or the 72-year-old man who wrote them?
Jim Whiting believes he’s Washington’s most prolific author, having published some 170 titles of children’s nonfiction and edited 500 others. He’s queried librarian friends about his claim and thus far has met no contenders.
The career center at the Bainbridge Public Library will present the career-seeking skills workshop, “Résumés,” from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9 at the library.
Consider: Fifty artists, eight studios, three days and two tours.
Then again, the only number that really matters is one.
One, as in one of a kind, which is the order of the day at both the 2016 Bainbridge Island Summer Studio Tour and the Bainbridge Working Studios Summer Celebration. Original, unique, hand-crafted works by regional artists will be on display at studios around beautiful Bainbridge Island as part of the annual tours, offering canny connoisseurs the chance to meet and connect with the creators of the work they love — and maybe even discover new favorites.