Blink and you may miss it? The city of Bainbridge Island doesn’t think so.
The Spartans left the Snohomish Aquatic Center as winners. But on the bus ride back to Bainbridge last Saturday, they became Metro League Champions.
Support for a new central park for Bainbridge Island continues to grow, according to the latest vote tally from the Feb. 10 Special Election.
Bainbridge voters have approved a proposal to replace or renovate aging and cramped fire stations on the island, as well as a companion measure to raise the Bainbridge Island Fire Department’s property tax levy.
Bainbridge Island has a new central park in its future. Islanders overwhelmingly approved a $5.9 million bond measure to pay for the purchase of the 23-acre Sakai property for a future park during the Feb. 10 Special Election.
More than 40 percent of Bainbridge Island’s registered voters have cast ballots for today’s Special Election.
Taxes and parks. Opponents of the upcoming $5.9 million bond measure to buy nearly 23 acres of land along Madison Avenue to create a central park for Bainbridge Island say they have enough of both already.
Eric van der Wal of Bainbridge Island will certainly have an amazing story to tell when he gets home from his cruise around Hawaii. Van der Wal is captain of the ms Veendam, a Holland America Line cruise ship that was called off course this weekend to rescue a pilot who had to ditch his single-engine airplane into the ocean after it ran out of gas hundreds of miles off the coast of Hawaii.
Olympic Ambulance has been warned by the city of Bainbridge Island for illegally operating its ambulance business out of a residential home near Meadowmeer Golf Course.
Bainbridge parks supporters are hoping to turn a private jewel into a public gem. Island voters will be asked during the Feb. 10 Special Election to approve a 20-year bond sale that would pay for the purchase of the Sakai property, 22.87 acres of largely undeveloped land that sits between Madison Avenue and Highway 305.
The city’s six-month ban on new commercial aquaculture activities will give Bainbridge Island time to make a “limited amendment” to the new aquaculture rules in its updated Shoreline Master Program, officials said this week.
Bainbridge Island approved an emergency six-month ban on “new aquaculture activities” at its meeting Tuesday.
Costs for the city of Bainbridge Island’s big loss in its legal battle over council member emails continued to grow this week, well after the city agreed to a nearly $500,000 settlement that ended a Superior Court lawsuit over missing and destroyed public records.